Adding constantly scrolling text at the bottom of slides

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I seek to add a "news ticker" (think CNN or FOX) at the bottom of my PPT slides. I have an information dense, highly time limited presentation venue where adding succint summary points at the bottom and constantly recycling them will remind my audience what I am doing/have done at each step of the way.

Parameters: I wish this to occupy the bottom 8-10% of the slide. There will be approximately 10, short summary sentences that I wish to scroll slowly across the bottom and constantly recycle them. Hence, this cyclical animated text will need to be some type of "add-in" function that scrolls independent of each slide. If possible, I wish it to start after my first title slide

Specifics are a must. I've seen some possibilities (animated GIF, Visual Basic programming, java) but I know very little about them

Thanks in advance for any help

Tim
 
The easiest solution would be if using PPT 2002/2003 to have a long text box
with the 10 summary sentences positioned off the slide (lower left). Then
animate with a Fly from Right. Adjust the speed/time to be very slow (60-120
seconds). Set to repeat until end of slide. The only thing to consider is
that this is an animation on a slide, so with each slide transition the
animation will start over. So on each slide adjust the text, moving the 1st
summary sentence to the end (slide 1 shows sentences 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 -
slide 2 shows sentences 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1 - slide 3 shows sentences 3...
etc.) so visually it appears to be progressing what is shown.

Just one idea.,
Troy Chollar
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Tim said:
Hello
I seek to add a "news ticker" (think CNN or FOX) at the bottom of my PPT
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slides. I have an information dense, highly time limited presentation venue
where adding succint summary points at the bottom and constantly recycling
them will remind my audience what I am doing/have done at each step of the
way.
Parameters: I wish this to occupy the bottom 8-10% of the slide. There
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will be approximately 10, short summary sentences that I wish to scroll
slowly across the bottom and constantly recycle them. Hence, this cyclical
animated text will need to be some type of "add-in" function that scrolls
independent of each slide. If possible, I wish it to start after my first
title slide.
Specifics are a must. I've seen some possibilities (animated GIF, Visual
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Basic programming, java) but I know very little about them.
 
Thanks for your help. I recently found on this discussion board under the heading "Marquee" a nice posting summarizing how to make PPT do this. It was posted in early Feb 2004. I have tried it and it works roughly. I still desire a method to make some type of add-in program to do this with constant scrolling, wrapping, and recycling text. Any other ideas??

Tim
 
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