auto-reverse pause?

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Using PowerPoint 2002 (XP) in Windows XP SP3.

Using a custom motion path, I am causing a long page to scroll down and then
to autoreverse and scroll back to the starting point. It works fine, but I
was wondering if there was a way to make the motion path pause briefly
before starting the auto-reverse. Is there?

(I am also using the slowest speed for the scrolling (without smooth start
and end) but would like an even slower speed but I guess that is not
available).

Thanks.

Jeff
 
Jeff

You can get any speed you need by double clicking the entry in the custom
animation pane > choose timing tab and manually type in the speed box eg 15
seconds.

To get a delay you should add a second motion path the same as the first and
reverse it and then set a delay

Hope that helps
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Thank you John. That worked.

A related problem I've noticed in another slide I tried this on: If the
image is a very long one (3-4 screen fulls), scrolling works correctly but
the bottom of the image is cut off (blank) so that the scrolling goes
"beyond the available image" into blank space. Not sure why that happens.
Maybe it is not related to the scrolling but possibly to how long an image
PPT will retain for a slide or allow motion paths for? The resulting
scrolling motion path seems to demonstrate that only so much of the image
has been retained for that slide.

Is that a known PPT 2002 bug?

Details: I insert the image using insert\picture from file. But I get the
same result when I "cut" that pasted image and repaste it as a "Special
Paste" jpg to reduce PPT file size and then apply the motion path. When the
image is first pasted, it is all visible and I can see it to start the
motion path from its bottom. But when the slide show is clicked on,
scrolling goes to that point but with no image in the bottom half after a
certain point. Weird.

Jeff
 
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