WISH LIST: Animating text in a textbox

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Below is a wish list to MS office powerpoint guys ...

I recently posted this message earlier today and got a reply back. Have a
look below:



Hi all,

Is there an option in powerpoint 2007 to emphasize a word or group in a
sentence.

For example, I want to write the sentence:

"My friend David, is a very resourceful person".

Lets say I want to make the word "David" stand out. I can bold and underline
it. But what I want is that you can animate the word "David" (maybe make it
flash on and off) so that the reader will concentrate more on the word
"David".

Right now, I'm making two text boxes. One text box with the word David and
one text box with the rest of the sentence. So in PPT, I have to move both
text boxes and make sure they are aligned and in the correct position. Then
using custom animation, I emphasize the word 'David' this way.

This takes considerable amount of time so I want to see I'm really missing
something or really PPT doesn't have this option. Maybe, powerpoint with so
powerful features don't have this option!?



I go this reply back:




Unfortunately, there's no direct way to do this in PowerPoint.
The solution that you have mentioned is right, that will be the workaround.
--
Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint


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I would have liked to see this too. In the meantime as well as the two text
box approach you can also add animated shapes in front or behind the text.
Yellow flashing rectangles can work and I've also seen an oval (red line / no
fill )with a one spoke wheel animation repeating

 

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Hi John,

Thank you! That's a more efficient approach.