Power Point 2003 - Custom Animation locked out on task pane.

[Guest]

In Power Point 2003 - When I try to use the custom animation in the task pane
it is locked out or faded and cannot be accessed. When I right click on the
areas that I want to animate a box comes up in the center of the screen so
that I can assign an annimation to the box but I don't have access the the
task pane so that I can move around each item on the slide & set the timing
or highlight a particular text item to change. Please help!

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Do you have the new animation features disabled? Go to Tools > Options.
Look at the Edit tab. See if there are any check marks at the bottom
below "Disable new features." Try unchecking them and let us know if that
works.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Echo S]

In addition to David's suggestion (which sounds more like what's happening,
I think), you could be using animation schemes. Those place the animations
on the master slides, and you'd need to move them to the actual slide before
you can change them. http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00515.htm explains
it better.