How do I setup a smooth AutoCue?

[Guest]

so far I created 1 slide ( blue background )
1 text box ( text in Arial 40, the text for every 'player' in a different
color,
so it's readable from a distance )
colors & lines : no fill; no line
size : HxW = 285cm X 26cm
position : horiz. 0cm from top left ; vertic. 5 cm from top left

added effects to the text box : motion path = up ; start=on click ;
speed=very fast
and this repeated for about 20 times - every time starting from the previous
ending.

when running this AutoCue,
after clicking 3 or 4 times, the text on the screen dissapears, although
there is still a lot more text in the text box...

what am I doing wrong?
using XP home SP2, PP 2003 SP2

I'm willing to send the .ppt - 43kB -

regards,
PapaDox

 

[Guest]

Send me the file and I'll see if I can fix it.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

I would think from the description that this is most likely a resource
problem, rather than a program problem. To quickly test this, try the
presentation on a really good machine and see if it still fails in the same
places. If it fails differently, it is likely to be too little CPU cycles,
too little Graphics abilities, or too little RAM.

If you try this on a different computer and it fails the same, I would be
interested in seeing the file. Could you email it to the address in my
signature.


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[Guest]

Bill,
I think it's a fairly strong machine I've tried this on,
so I'll send the requested file to you and to John (Wilson)

Regards,
Peter

 

[Bill Dilworth]

OK, from the example you sent, I see the problem.

You have a very tall text box. In fact it is over 112" tall. PowerPoint
usually will only render an area about 1 screen out from the visible portion
of the slide, so most of the text box lays outside of the rendered area.

I would suggest that you rework the slide using multiple text boxes.

Each textboxes' animation can "push" the previous one up. In essence, each
textbox will have 4 positions (base + 3 motion animations): off screen
below, on lower screen, on upper screen and off screen above. If this does
not make a whole lot of sense, post back and I'll try to explain better.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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[Guest]

Thanks,
I suspected this already. but it is nice having some experts to confirm this.
with your solution and the example that John has send to me,
I'm sure I can make it work.
( he came up with a similar solution )