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Hanz, Thanks for providing a solution. I was caught up at work and unable to reply in a timely manner.

I have Office2000 and I have not been able to find the “fly” animation feature. I have however attached an example of two different charts animated. The first is a formatted PowerPoint Chart slide and the second is an Excel chart inserted on a PowerPoint slide.

I right clicked on the chart and selected “custom animation”,
I then selected the tab “Chart Effects”,

Try different settings and use the preview command button to get an idea of what it will look like.
If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to email me.

I have Office2000 and I have not been able to find the “fly” animation feature. I have however attached an example of two different charts animated. The first is a formatted PowerPoint Chart slide and the second is an Excel chart inserted on a PowerPoint slide.

I right clicked on the chart and selected “custom animation”,
I then selected the tab “Chart Effects”,

Try different settings and use the preview command button to get an idea of what it will look like.
If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to email me.

Attached is a ppt with two animated lines layered over a map.
If you have multiple lines to animate – draw them first.
I used the “custom animation” option under the “slide show” drop down menu. Another method for getting the custom animation dialog box is to right click on the object to be animated and select custom animation from the quick menu.

The “custom animation” dialog box appears with several tabs;
The tab for “Effects” is where you can select the lines to animate, wipe feature, and direction or effect to be applied to the line.
I like to use Wipe and the the I just choose the direction it needs to go.
The tab for “Order and Timing” is where you can make adjustments to your settings.

Attached is a ppt with two animated lines layered over a map.
If you have multiple lines to animate – draw them first.
I used the “custom animation” option under the “slide show” drop down menu. Another method for getting the custom animation dialog box is to right click on the object to be animated and select custom animation from the quick menu.

The “custom animation” dialog box appears with several tabs;
The tab for “Effects” is where you can select the lines to animate, wipe feature, and direction or effect to be applied to the line.
I like to use Wipe and the the I just choose the direction it needs to go.
The tab for “Order and Timing” is where you can make adjustments to your settings.

Dory,

To answer number one: I do not know of a way to mix portrait and Landscape with out rotating the image. Your output will be either one or the other, not both.
To answer number two: I depends on how you are going to use the file. Are your projecting it, sending it to family/friend, or printing?

1. For projection, you are limited by your screen size and will have to keep your aspect ratio or have circus looking images. I recommend using a black background with white text.
2. For sending to family or friends, no manipulation is required unless you are trying to constrain the image to a preset size for them.
3. For print, and you want the image to fill the page, copy or open the image in Microsoft Photo Editor, rotate the image, save as .jpg, insert image in PowerPoint, and resize to desired dimension.

Whallah!
I have attached your sample rotated.

Dory,

To answer number one: I do not know of a way to mix portrait and Landscape with out rotating the image. Your output will be either one or the other, not both.
To answer number two: I depends on how you are going to use the file. Are your projecting it, sending it to family/friend, or printing?

1. For projection, you are limited by your screen size and will have to keep your aspect ratio or have circus looking images. I recommend using a black background with white text.
2. For sending to family or friends, no manipulation is required unless you are trying to constrain the image to a preset size for them.
3. For print, and you want the image to fill the page, copy or open the image in Microsoft Photo Editor, rotate the image, save as .jpg, insert image in PowerPoint, and resize to desired dimension.

Whallah!
I have attached your sample rotated.

Bob,

Try this: When viewing your ‘Slide Master’:
Look under the ‘Insert’ drop down menu and see if the 1st listed item is ‘New Title Master’.

It should be that easy.

Diane,
One last thing you can try is under the ‘Insert’ drop down menu; and that is the ‘Insert Outline’ feature.
I am not satisfied by it’s functionality but it is somewhat crude at getting the information into PowerPoint from .doc, .rtf, and .txt formats.
I have found that I need to insert the tab stops in the ruler bar of the presentation to make the outline align properly.[/i]
Let me know if this works for you.

Diane,

I am not sure how to add the Word Object to the ‘Paste Special’ options, but I have another thought….

Try this in PowerPoint: Using the Insert drop down menu, select ‘Insert Object’.
1. If “Create New”: Scroll through the objects and see if Microsoft Word is available.
You could copy and paste into the new object? I can…
2. If “Create from File”: Browse to the word document and insert into presentation.
The document is inserted and looks beautiful.
Does this help?

Diane,
Have you tried using the copy (from Word),and Paste Special (in PowerPoint) selecting the Microsoft Word Document Object option?
This embeds the outline in a Word native format within PowerPoint.

I have W2K and cannot find the clock.exe utility that you mention. Is this part of an add-on feature? I am a PowerPoint engineer (presentation specialist) for several clients and think that this might be a neat feature that I can incorporate into my presentations. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.

Lenny,

Thank you for keeping with me… The user that is developing this material is on a machine that is locked down from much dynamic functionality. I took the presentation to a seperate workstation and activated the contents just fine. So, to answer your question, the user is not able to select “activate contents”. This was really a simple fix, just had to get on the correct machine to do it… Thanks again

Lenny,

The recipient machines do have Acrobat Reader, but not all the same version. Your previous recommendations were not successfull as PDF is not a supported format to insert as an object.

Here is a thought that maybe you or someone else may have some knowledge on.
“If I insert a command button in the PowerPoint, can I use it to activate the embedded PDF file?”
Note: I do have a little visual basic experience, but not in PowerPoint.

I am really trying to avoid PDF screen captures/snarfing or zipping the supporting PDF files in a directory.

Lenny,

Thanks, I’ll let you know how it works out…