I am stuck!

[James]

I am making a powerpoint on the dangers of smoking. In my powerpoint an
animated shape person needs to walk into the centre. How do I get the shape
person's arm to rotate around a certain point?

 

[Sandy Johnson]

It's doable. If you want to rotate an arm moving toward the mouth do this:

Using the Freeform drawing tool, *roughly* draw the shape of the arm you
want to rotate (I'm assuming the arm separate from the body). Now take that
object you just drew and rotate it to the exact opposite persective of the
"real" arm. Align the orignal arm's shoulder with what would be the shoulder
area of the drawn object (one end touches the other -- this creates the
fulcrum Group the arm and the drawn object. Make the drawn object transparent
(remove fills and lines). Using the Emphasis Spin effect (at the desired
degrees) create the rotation. Because you've grouped the arm and the drawn,
invisible object together, the will rotate at the "shoulder" (fulcrum) area.

Hope this helps.

Sandy

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Smoking causes PowerPoint animations, too! Oh no!!

You should look at Glen's hidden pivot tutorial.
http://www.pptworkbench.com/html/hidden_pivots.htm

or you could stop by PowerPoint Live in Atlanta next week and we could show
you.
http://www.betterppt.com/powerpoint_live/

Bill Dilworth

 

[Glen Millar]

Hey Bill,

You here yet?

I had my talk ready for Monday with some of this stuff, but then I had lunch
with Geetesh and I showed him what I was doing and he showed me a quicker
way to do it and- oh wow, we all keep on learning!!! Now I gotta change it!

Hey James, seriously, PowerPoint Live is amazing, even for presenters!

--
Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com

See you at PowerPoint Live?
www.pptlive.com
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Smoking causes PowerPoint animations, too! Oh no!!

You should look at Glen's hidden pivot tutorial.
http://www.pptworkbench.com/html/hidden_pivots.htm

or you could stop by PowerPoint Live in Atlanta next week and we could
show you.
http://www.betterppt.com/powerpoint_live/

Bill Dilworth