Remove slide animation from body text

[Robert Mark Bram]

Howdy All!

I am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. I have the master slide of my
presentation set up so that body text "peeks in from left" one paragraph at
a time.

I have a slide with only one paragraph and I want the slide to have *no*
animation - but it inherits the peek animation from the master...

In PowerPoint 2000 I could still go
Slide Show | Custom Animation
and remove the text effect.

But in PowerPoint 2002 I see no way to do this - the text pane does not show
up in the Customer Animation bar as an element with animation, despite the
fact that it has animation!

What can I do?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Rob

 

[Shyam]

Robert,
Switch to that slide.
In the custom animation pane you will see an entry 'Master:Body '
Click on it and select 'Copy effects to slide'
Now, click on the new effects that were copied to the slide by the previous
operation and select remove.
That should do it.

--
Regards
Shyam Pillai

Handout Wizard
http://www.mvps.org/skp/how/

 

[Robert Mark Bram]

Thank you Shyam

Switch to that slide.
In the custom animation pane you will see an entry 'Master:Body '
Click on it and select 'Copy effects to slide'
Now, click on the new effects that were copied to the slide by the previous
operation and select remove.
That should do it.

That works!

Another annoying difference I have found between PowerPoint 2002 and 2000
occurs here. When you record macros, 2002 ignores actions to do with the
Slide Layout sidebar.

Rob

 

[Robert Mark Bram]

Thanks for the reply Brian!

If you copy and paste another copy of the text placeholder on that
particular page, it becomes a regular textbox not attached to the
Master. Then delete the original placeholder on that page and change
the animation settings on the new textbox.

It works and I can write a macro for that!

Rob