how to have appear entrance AND motion entrance

[cayce]

I'm trying to have an autoshape not appear until a previous animation event
concludes. The trouble is, I also need to shape to follow a motion path from
the left on its appears. I cannot figure out how to get both an Appear
entrance and a Motion Path entrance to work together. Any ideas?

This slide needs to build a series of autoshapes on top of or alongside each
other. I can't have the shapes appearing until it is time for them to be
added to the build sequence.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this.

 

[David Marcovitz]

I'm trying to have an autoshape not appear until a previous animation event
concludes. The trouble is, I also need to shape to follow a motion path from
the left on its appears. I cannot figure out how to get both an Appear
entrance and a Motion Path entrance to work together. Any ideas?

This slide needs to build a series of autoshapes on top of or alongside each
other. I can't have the shapes appearing until it is time for them to be
added to the build sequence.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this.

I'm not clear about what you want to do. From what I can tell, you want to
have a single shape do two things: appear and move. Do you want it to move
onto the slide? In that case, just start your motion path from off the
slide. Do you want it to appear on the slide and then move. In that case, if
a motion path alone won't do the trick, just set an appear animation and a
motion path animation with the motion path set to have its timing be After
Previous. If this doesn't solve your problem, be sure to include the version
of PowerPoint you are using when you reply.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

MS has 3 great tutorials about animation that I advise you to have a look
at - it won't take long and it will save you time in the long run!
PowerPoint training (2003):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR061832731033.aspx
The tutorials are relevant to 2007 too as the only thing that has changed is
how to open the custom animation taskpane (Animation tab -> custom
animation).

Lucy