Chart animation

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I am trying, in a clustered culum chart made in powerpoint, to animate the
chart so that the først series appears, for instance by wipe-effect, and then
the second series must first appear when i click the mouse. how can I achieve
that effect. please help, I am sitting with my Bosses presentation and have
promised that I can do that.
 
You don't mention which Powerpoint version you're running, but in all
versions it's possible to select the chart object and ungroup it.
Powerpoint will warn you that it's an external object, and say OK.

At that point the chart elements behave like any other drawing objects.

First, you need to ungroup the chart elements so that the colums you would
like to animate are separate.

Then, select each colum and apply the appropriate animation setting.

This is a quick and dirty approach, and you will lose the ability to link
the chart data to external files, but hopefully it'll buy you some time to
find a more elegant approach.

Cheers,
Geoff
 
Paltoft,
Select the chart, click Slide Show > Custom Animation.
Then, click Add Effect > Entrance > Wipe.
Now, double click on the added wipe effect to bring up the dialog box.
Click on Chart Animation tab.
Under Group Chart, click on the dropdown list. Select the option of your
preference (depending on how you want it to be animated).
Click Ok.
Also, you can expand the list and change the Start of each effect. (e.g.
from On click to With Previous).
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Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

Site Updated: Sept 26, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
http://pptheaven.mvps.org
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate
 
Just to add to Shawn's very good advice you probably want to NOT tick animate
grid & legend

SpudMachine's method can be used to give some interesting effects but if
your chart is other than very basic ungrouping it will give you a lot of
shapes to deal with. Unless you have very specific needs and know what you're
doing I wouldn't go there.
 
Another thing to add on - the ungrouping method is irreversible. Make sure
you create a duplicate first before ungrouping, or else you will have to
re-create the chart if you want to modify any data in it.
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Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

Site Updated: Sept 26, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
http://pptheaven.mvps.org
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate
 
Another thing to add on - the ungrouping method is irreversible. Make sure
you create a duplicate first before ungrouping, or else you will have to
re-create the chart if you want to modify any data in it.
Click to expand...

Or Ctrl+Drag the graph to make a copy of it then drag the copy off the slide or
shrink it down and send it to the back behind the other stuff on the slide.

That way you only have to backtrack a few steps if something goes wrong.

Or when the boss fiddles the data.

Again.

For the 18th time.
 
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