zooming into slide

[Teacher Suz]

I have a presentation we are setting to music, and I
would like to be able to zoom into each slide SLOWLY, and
even have the individual pictures on the slides come in
SLOWLY. The SLOW speed setting that is default in Power
Point 2000 is NOT slow. Is there a way to change the
speed of a slide zoom, and a custom animation speed?
Thanks for any help I can get!

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hey Suz,

The transitions in PowerPoint (all versions) are locked into those 3 speeds,
but it doesn't have to appear that way to the audience. If you have
PowerPoint 2002 (XP) or 2003, then you can substitute animations for
transitions.

This requires a little set-up and some extra work but is a nice effect.

1) Set your presentation up the way you want it to sequence. Set the
transition to 'No Transition' (don't worry, really).

2) Use a screen capture tool to 'take a picture' of each slide as they look
when completed.

3) Paste this picture over top of the next slide.

4) Apply the custom animation Exit - Fade - and go to the custom timing
dialog box. (Click on the pulldown menu in the custom animation pane.)

5) Type the actual amount of time that you would like for the picture to
fade into the next slide.

6) Use this same technique to add very slow Emphasis - Grow screen capture
animations to the show.

Hope this gets you thinking along the right lines.

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[Teacher Suz]

Bill -
Thanks for the idea. I will play with it. Does it work
for PPT 2000? I know someone who has XP on their
computer. If I create the presentation in XP, but
only have 2000 on the computer I'm showing the show on,
will the changes still work?
Thanks,
Suz

 

[Bill Dilworth]

No, this would require PowerPoint 2002 or better, but ...

You could build the show on your friends PowerPoint XP and show it on your
computer using the new viewer. But this would mean that you could not edit
the show at all on your system.

Bill D.

 

[Guest]

What Bill said.

However, there is a sample of a fading image PPT 2000 presentation on my website, courtesy of Robert Lerner. http://www.echosvoice.com/animationfeatures.htm

It takes a lot of slides to create one good fade, though, so be forewarned that if you have a lot of images, this just may not be practical.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com