How can I zoom or pan slides during a PowerPoint presenation?

[Guest]

I'm doing a PowerPoint 2003 presentation.

I have some complicated visuals and some long timelines to display and it
would be a lot easier to present this stuff if I could zoom in/out .

Also, if I could pan right-left along a very wide slide (a timeline) then I
wouldn't have to cut it up into different slides and it would be easier to
present.

 

[Sandy]

Try using motion paths in you animation settings.

 

[Guest]

Thanks but I don't see how motion paths relate to my problem. I didn't see
how one would pan across an image or slide that's much larger than the screen
or how one could use motions paths for controlled scrolling. It looks like
they can only be used for preset animations of objects.

What I'm trying to do is display a timeline and pan back and forth across
it, as I talk. The image would be much wider than the screen and I want to be
able to move horizontally, back and forth, as I discuss the relative timing
of different events.

It doesn't look like PowerPoint is that powerful of a presentation program.

Can anyone suggest a better program for presentations? One that can zoom and
pan?

Thanks.

 

[Kathy J]

If you want to pan across a timeline, you want to build a series of
triggered motion paths. Click one place and the timeline moves left (panning
you right). Click another and the time line moves right (panning you left).
Set a number of these trigger and motion path combos across the timeline and
you can move by increments. By using the motion paths, you give the
appearance of dragging to the right place in the timeline to see what you
want to see.

Setting up the zoom is more complicated. The experts on this are Bill D and
Glen M. Hopefully, one of them will stop by and see this and give you more
details. (Who knows, one of them might even have a link to a sample they are
willing to share.)
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[Steve Rindsberg]

What I'm trying to do is display a timeline and pan back and forth across

it, as I talk. The image would be much wider than the screen and I want to be
able to move horizontally, back and forth, as I discuss the relative timing
of different events.

This can be done with a little VBA, especially if you only need to do a few
slides like this.

Sub Left
' Assuming you have a photo or graphic named TimeLine
' on slide 2 of your presentation:
With ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes("TimeLine")
' Move it to the left by 72 points (1 inch)
.Left = .Left - 72
End With
End Sub

Add an action button (the Left arrow one would be apt) to Slide 2
Assign it an action setting of Run Macro: Left

Do the same thing to create a macro named Right and instead of subtracting 72
points, add 72 points. Assign it to a right arrow action button and fire it up.

It doesn't look like PowerPoint is that powerful of a presentation program.

Can anyone suggest a better program for presentations? One that can zoom and
pan?

Director might be able to do it. Several times the cost, several orders of
magnitude steeper learning curve, though, from what I've been told.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You could use Chirag's Zoom Add-in:
http://officeone.mvps.org/zoom/zoom.html

And remember to thank him nicely since he gives it away for free.

Glenna