Flowing Lines/Arrows

[kudruu]

Hi,
I have a slide modeling a flow map in a presentation I am giving and I
was wondering if there is a way to have powerpoint constantly animate
the flow direction as the arrows are being drawn.
For example something like this that runs constantly:
http://drivers.freecarmedia.com/images/arrows/animated_arrow.gif
Is there a normal form of animation that will do this or would I have
to overlay a bunch of arrows and have them alternate?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Guest]

AFAIK there's no easy way! Try this:

Add arrows all along the direction of flow. Select all the arrows (ctrl
click) and add an entrance animation "wipe from left (or appropriate
direction)" Now select all again and add an exit "disappear" In custom
animation select everything and change to "after previous" Lastly drag the
order of exit animations so that arrow 1 entrance is followed by arrow 1
exit, then arrow 2 entrance > exit etc.
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[Bill Dilworth]

If you are willing to change the desired animation a little, you could add a
repeating motion path to make one arrow move into/under another.

Add two block arrow autoshapes to your slide.

On the first add a motion path animation (assuming that you have PowerPoint
2002 or newer installed on your machine(s))
Adjust the animation timing to:
Start: With Previous
Speed: Slow
Repeat: Until end of slide

Now the slightly tricky part. Move the second arrow exactly over the end of
the first arrow's path. There are several techniques for doing this. Post
back if you need one of them.


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