Is it possible on animating an object to have it rotate?

[Guest]

Does Powerpoint provide the means to animate text or shape object in a
rotational manner? (i.e rotate 45 degrees clockwise)

 

[Chirag]

Yes, this is possible. Use the "Spin" effect in the "Emphasis" group.

- Chirag

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[Bill Dilworth]

In PowerPoint 2002 or newer, the 'Spin' Emphasis animation can be used in
conjunction with the other animation.


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[Guest]

Yes, this is possible. Use the "Spin" effect in the "Emphasis" group.

- Chirag

OfficeOne Animations - Add over 50 animation effects to PowerPoint
http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html

Thanks - Thats what I needed to know.

RB

 

[Oriana]

What about getting it to rotate/spin on a particular path? I know there are
motion paths, but I'm talking about combining the two.

For instance, if I have a circle with 4 arrows on it, and I want the arrows
to move around in a circle to show a "flow" process, how would I do this?
Can I make my own motion path, but also make it so the shape rotates as it
follows the path? I don't want the arrow to stay in the same position and
just move in a circle. I want it to actually rotate around the circle and
follow the path with the arrow's point.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Add both effects (spin and motion path) to the custom animation, set them
both to the same duration, then set the second one to "Start with Previous"

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[Oriana]

I got this to work, but now I have a problem.

Let me explain the slide. It is a workflow type of chart. There is a
circle with the aforementioned rotating arrows, and inside that circle are a
few boxes/arrows that fade in on every mouse click. I have it set so the
outside rotating circle starts as soon as the slide comes up. Then the
presenter must click to have the first inside box show up. The problem is,
whenever they click to have that inside box show up, the outside rotating
animation rewinds and starts over at the beginning. But for every click the
presenter does after that, it doesn't affect the animation at all and runs
smoothly.

I have it set so the paths/spins on the circle with arrows repeat until the
end of the slide (when the person goes on to the next slide). I don't have
rewind turned on, I have smooth start and smooth finish turned off because I
didn't want the weird "pauses" they created. The rotating circle is running
on 5, very slowly and the boxes that fade in are on 2, medium.

Any reason why that first click causes the animation to rewind itself?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Would it be possible to send the relevant slide to me? I think I can
visualize what you are doing and what you want to do, but if I'm off, we'll
spend a lot of time chasing up a wrong alley.

Use the email in my signature.


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