Repeating an animation sequence

[spudmachine]

Comrades,
I do apologise because I think this question has been answered before, but a
long, long time ago

I would like to repeat a sequence of animations. For example, to fade an
object in with an entrance animation and then fade it out with an exit
animation, and then to repeat that sequence "until end of slide".

I seem to remember an add-in was recommended that does this. And I also
seem to recall it was PPTools. But when I look at the Starter Set Plus,
here...

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/index.html

I can't see this function listed.

I'm about to purchase PPTools anyway, but I wanted to include this
capability in a justification as it's something that would be really useful.

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Guest]

Have a look at the add-in here:
http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html

Also, looping a slide with multiple animations requires custom show. Check
out the tutorial here:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/tohlz/archive/2006/09/10/Looping-a-slide-with-multiple-animations.aspx
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Site Updated: Oct 20, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
http://pptheaven.mvps.org
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate

 

[Guest]

In addition to Shawn's reply you can olso do this with tiny amount of vba

here the code

Sub repeatme()
Dim i As Integer
i = ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.CurrentShowPosition
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide i, msoTrue
End Sub

now simply add a 99% transparent full slide shape to the slide with a mouse
over action of run macro and have the shape appear at the end of your
animations (probably with a short delay.)

Make sure that you also have a button to move to the nest slide and "break
out" of the cycle

 

[spudmachine]

That's great, thanks to you both!

In addition to Shawn's reply you can olso do this with tiny amount of vba

here the code

Sub repeatme()
Dim i As Integer
i = ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.CurrentShowPosition
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide i, msoTrue
End Sub

now simply add a 99% transparent full slide shape to the slide with a
mouse
over action of run macro and have the shape appear at the end of your
animations (probably with a short delay.)

Make sure that you also have a button to move to the nest slide and "break
out" of the cycle


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[Steve Rindsberg]

Comrades,
I do apologise because I think this question has been answered before, but a
long, long time ago

I would like to repeat a sequence of animations. For example, to fade an
object in with an entrance animation and then fade it out with an exit
animation, and then to repeat that sequence "until end of slide".

I seem to remember an add-in was recommended that does this. And I also
seem to recall it was PPTools. But when I look at the Starter Set Plus,
here...

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/index.html

I can't see this function listed.

I'm about to purchase PPTools anyway, but I wanted to include this
capability in a justification as it's something that would be really useful.

None of the PPTools add-ins do anything with animations, Geoff.
Sha "Tohlz" wn is one of our resident animation wizards. I think he's got you
pointed in the right direction.

What else bugs you about PPT. Maybe I can help justify the purchase some other
way. <g>

If you do anything that requires naming or tagging shapes, presentations or
slides, or need to edit links, the "pig" tool's worth the cost of admission
(IMO, but then I wrote it. Biased, y'know.)

 

[spudmachine]

Hi Steve,
Actually PPTools is so cheap I don't need the additional justification - it
was just a feature that was easy to articulate, and for which we have an
immediate need

Just going to buy it now. Have been on the road this week with intermittent
Internet access.

Cheers,
Geoff