how to suppress printing of a text element?

[Guest]

i'm preparing a lecture in which i do some derivations on-screen,
and i'm using animation to have each line appear as i press "enter".

the slides are to be printed and handed out to the students.

how do i tag the animated elements so that they appear on-screen,
but do *not* appear on the printed copies?

the only way i have found to do this is to "animate" an opaque
white box over each element i wish to suppress, and make the
box be the "last" thing to appear on the slide. but this is a huge
pain.

isn't there an easier way? microsoft: how about adding a
"suppress this element from printing" checkbox to the format
dialog?

thanks,

seth teller

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Are you printing in color? If not, I have a macro on my site that will help
you out. Check it out at:
http://www.onppt.com/ppt/article1067.html

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[Echo S]

If you're printing in black and white, you can go to View | Black and White,
right-click the textbox and choose B/W Settings, and choose "don't show."
This only affects the B/W printing, not the actual color slide show.

This would make the whole textbox not print, though, so it might not be what
you want.

FWIW, PPT 2007 has an option to hide individual elements on slides, which
will make it easy to do this kind of stuff -- hide the items, print, then go
back and unhide everything.