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I need to organize a great deal of text (40 text boxes), to be displayed
sequentially on one (1) slide. Other drawings, clip art, and stuff stays
mostly the same but with several animations.

Just using test boxes with one covering the other is very difficult to
coordinate - it's impossible to click on a text when it's covered by 20 other
texts. Is there a way
to control this much text. Can say a text file be read in one section at a
time when the mouse is clicked or another control selected.
 
If you are using PPT 2002 or 2003, you can use the motion paths to help with
this kind of situation. Put the text boxes off the slide on the grey area.
Spread them around so that each shows. Add a straight line motion path for
each text box that ends where you want the box to end. Each box will come
onto the slide and end at the same spot.

If the boxes aren't the same size, add an exit animation (disappear works
well) after each motion path.Set the exit animations to happen after a time
or on click.

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I need to organize a great deal of text (40 text boxes), to be displayed
sequentially on one (1) slide. Other drawings, clip art, and stuff stays
mostly the same but with several animations.

Just using test boxes with one covering the other is very difficult to
coordinate - it's impossible to click on a text when it's covered by 20 other
texts. Is there a way
to control this much text. Can say a text file be read in one section at a
time when the mouse is clicked or another control selected.
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It could probably be automated this way with VBA, but your real problem is
picking out specific bits of text to edit isn't it?

We've just added a handy gadget for this kind of thing to our PPT2HTML add-in.
It lets you control the layering of shapes, select individual shapes by clicking
on their name in a list, make individual shapes visible/invisible and so on.

This feature's included in the free demo. See http://ppt2html.pptools.com for
more info on downloads 'n so forth. No obligation to buy the full product, this
one's our little gift to the PPT community.


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