PowerPoint 2003 - Motion Paths?

[Guest]

hello.
I have two objects which I have placed motion paths on to move them apart
from each other upon click. I want to be able to put them back together in
same motion upon next click, then separate again on click, put back together,
etc. for about 10 times. This cannot be an automatic repeat! We want to
have control of it. Any way to do this easily without having to create 10
different animation sequences/and draw the motion paths exactly the same each
time (which won't be easy!!!!).

Any advice would be helpful.
Thank you.
Elf

 

[Guest]

Two ways i could think of:
One way would be to use animation carbon, which allows you to
Copy, duplicate, manage, export, share PowerPoint 2002/2003 animations.
http://skp.mvps.org/ac/index.html

or,
Consider using trigger animation. Trigger animation will allows triggering
of effect on click of an object. In this case, you can either make a button
so that when you click on the button, the 2 objects will break apart, then
click again, the object wil join back again.

To do so, create a button first.
Then, Select all the effects that you have added (Hold down shift key, click
on the first effect, follow by the last one), right click and select Timing.

Now, Click triggers.
Select "Start effect on click of.
Select the button which you have created earlier.
Click ok.

Now, all the effects will be under the triggers.
The first on click will break the objects apart, while second on click will
join them back.

Alternately, you can also replace the button as the objects that are
animating.


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[Guest]

Thank you for responding. I tried the action button method - that's a good
start, however, I still have the same problem. I can use it to split the
objects along their respective motion paths away from each other, which is
good, however I want them to come back together on the same paths they broke
apart (basically just a reverse of the first animation), not just look like
the original again. Does that make sense?
Thanks,
Elf

 

[Guest]

So you mean the problem is that when using motion path to join back the
objects, they don't match nicely ?
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[Troy @ TLC Creative]

I just posted a simple example/tutorial that should give some ideas on how
to accomplish what you are looking to do.
Download the "Motion Paths 1" file.
http://tlccreative.com/ppt_tutorials.htm

 

[Guest]

Thank you both for your replies. I had figured out to put a second motion
path onto each object to mimic an "autoreverse" type thing. The problem is
that I want to be able to do this several times in a row with upon each mouse
click (click one - separate, click two - join, click three - separate, click
four - join, etc.). I could only get it to do it once in a slide (even
trying to add more motion paths to same object)

I ended up using a "slide-stacking"-type overlay - just created the first
slide and then inserted several duplicates after it. You aren't able to
really tell the difference and it does accomplish what we need. However -
seems like there should still be a way to do this easily.
Thanks again -
Elf

 

[Guest]

I also tried the button route, but could only accomplish that once on a slide
as well.
Elf