Pausing and Resuming a motion path

[darkraz]

Hi
Can anyone please help me?

I created the following PPT....

I had Pictures randomly placed on the PPT and wanted to select a picture at
random. To do this I made an object (star) and created a freeform motion path.
When I clicked the mouse the star would begin moving on the path over the
pictures and when I clicked again...the star froze where ever it got up to.

I can't remember how I did it! as I was messing about with the animation
settings...and I lost the file recently..
Since trying to recreate this I have failed miserably..

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

 

[Ute Simon]

I had Pictures randomly placed on the PPT and wanted to select a picture

at
random. To do this I made an object (star) and created a freeform motion
path.
When I clicked the mouse the star would begin moving on the path over the
pictures and when I clicked again...the star froze where ever it got up
to.

I can't remember how I did it! as I was messing about with the animation
settings...and I lost the file recently..
Since trying to recreate this I have failed miserably..

Are you sure you stopped the animation with a mouse click? I can't think of
an option at the moment. But if you press the "1" key on your keyboard, the
animation will stop, with "Q" you can resume it.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[darkraz via OfficeKB.com]

Thanks for the response Ute

I managed to work out how I did it...I used scribble for my motion path and
made the path last a longtime so that it took a while to repeat. I then chose
repeat>until nextclick

As long as the path doesn't finish you can pause it when the mouse is clicked
and then moved onto the next slide

I didn't know about using 1 and q and that seems alot better to use!

Many thanks

Raz

I had Pictures randomly placed on the PPT and wanted to select a picture
at

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settings...and I lost the file recently..
Since trying to recreate this I have failed miserably..

Are you sure you stopped the animation with a mouse click? I can't think of
an option at the moment. But if you press the "1" key on your keyboard, the
animation will stop, with "Q" you can resume it.

Best regards,
Ute