PPT 2002: List of all slide objects in Custom Animation?

[Glen Leslie]

I've found the approach to custom animation to be a royal PITA in PPT2002.

1. The biggest thing is that it doesn't display all the objects by default
in the list of objects which can be animated. You have to go click on every
last friggin object to get it to show in the list! Is there some way to get
all objects in the list from the get-go (like it was in PPT 97 & 2000)???

2. Is there some way to affect ALL the objects with things like the build
method (e.g. _all_ objects should "appear" or "blinds" in when mouse is
clicked). So far, it seems like you have to go to each object and change it
individually.

Thanks,

Glen

 

[B]

use multiple selections to animate everything

You could ....

Select an object on the slide
Then press Ctl-A
Then right click
Select custom animation
Select add entrance
Select appear
Change to with previous (while all selected).

This would make your processor work harder and may interfere with some
transitions, but if the list is important to you, why not?

But why do you need a list of the things you are not really animating?

B

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Glen,
There are two ways that I know of to do what you want. Others may know of
more ways.
1) If all objects on all slides are to appear a certain way, set the
defaults on the master. This will take care of all placeholders.
2) On a specific slide, you can do a CTRL-A (select all) and then set the
animations. (Multi-select works as well.)

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