Highlighting Part of a Slide

[Andrea]

I recently saw a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter showed a
slide, then with a mouse click highlighted part of it. I can't figure out
how to do this. Could anyone tell me how? I'm using Office 2003 on Windows
XP Pro, SP2. Thank you.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

That part of the slide (or just a graphic within the slide) probably had a
zoom animation set to happen on mouse click.

Do get back if you need more details on accomplishing this - and which
version of PowerPoint are you using? Something like this works best with
PowerPoint 2002 and above.

 

[john wilson]

Not sure if this is what you mean but it is cool!

Set the background to a picture fill.

Now place a shape eg oval or rectangle on the slide.Make the fill
"background" and the line to "none."

Now set a custom animation for the shape EMPHASIS > GROW(150%) and set a
trigger on the shape to start the animation.

Run the show and click where the shape is (it will be invisible)

 

[Andrea]

That part of the slide (or just a graphic within the slide) probably had a
zoom animation set to happen on mouse click.

Do get back if you need more details on accomplishing this - and which
version of PowerPoint are you using? Something like this works best with
PowerPoint 2002 and above.

I'm using Powerpoint 2003 (in Office 2003). I don't understand what a zoom
animation is. I've looked at all of the possible animations that activate
with a mouse click. As far as I can tell, I can change the color of the
font, which is helpful, but I can't find a way to highlight parts of the
text for the presentation, e.g., after all the bullets have been animated
onto the slide, set another animation to highlight a block of bullets in
yellow.

 

[john wilson]

Hi Andrea

If you email me (codepeople AT aol DOT com) I'll send you a nice demo of a
zoom animation

John

 

[Andrea]

Will do. Thanks.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Hi Andrea,

Follow these steps:

1. Select the object you want to zoom.

2. Choose Slide Show | Custom Animation to activate the Custom Animation
task pane.

3. Choose Add Effect | Emphasis | Grow/Shrink - if the Grow/Shrink option is
not available, choose Add Effect | Emphasis | More Effects | Basic |
Grow/Shrink.

To finetune the Grow/Shrink effect, select the animation from the listing on
the task pane, and click the downward pointing arrow next to the listing to
reveal a fly-out menu. Choose Effect Options to summon a dialog box that
lets you play with the settings.

 

[Andrea]

Thanks. That's a nice effect, but it's not what I was trying to do. I wanted
to highlight the text in a different color (not change the font color, which
is what I ended up doing because I couldn't figure out a way to highlight
it.)

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

OK - that's easy too.

1. Select the text you want to highlight in a different color - right-click
the text and choose Slide Show / Custom Animation to activate the Custom
Animation task pane.

2. In the task pane, choose Add Effect / Entrance / Fade (or any other
entrance effect).

3. Select the animation from the listing on the task pane, and click the
downward pointing arrow next to the listing to reveal a fly-out menu. Choose
Effect Options to summon a dialog box. In the Enhancements section, click
the After Animation drop down menu, and choose to change the color of the
text after animation to any of the 8 color scheme color swatches in the
menu. If you want any other color, click the More Colors option and choose
the color.

 

[Andrea]

Thank you, but I just tried that--and it only changes the text color rather
than highlighting it, at least from my end. This is a simpler way of
changing the text color than I had used (a trigger with a mouse click), but
it still doesn't highlight the text. I was told in private e-mail how to do
this, but I'm always open to other ways, if there are any.

Andrea