Dimming Bullets on Appearance of Next Bullet

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Joseph N.

[PPT 2002] The Custom Animation options would allow me to dim
bulleted text after it appears, but what I need is to dim it only
when the next bullet appears (on a keyclick). I cannot find or
figure out how to do this in PPT. How does one dim a bullet on the
appearance of the same slide's next bullet group?
 
Open the Custom Animation Taskpane and select the text box object you want
to change, click the dropdown arrow and click "Modify", click the "Effects"
TAB and change the "after Animation" from "Don't Dim" to a desired color.
 
JN,
Instead of thinking "Dim on Next Mouse Click", think Emphasis Effect on next
mouse click followed by entrance of next line of text.

To do this, add an Emphasis Effect of Fade to each of your bullets. Move
each of these animations up the timeline until it sits under the entrance
for the previous paragraph. The Emphasis will default to on click. Change
the entrance for the following bullet to with previous.

Let us know if this brings the effect you are looking for.

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Let us know if this brings the effect you are looking for.
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Kathy, thanks for the novel approach. Yes, it provides exactly the
effect I am looking for. (One comment, however, is that it is all
much too fussy to do. By contrast, in Lotus' Freelance Graphics--
which is no less powerful a program--one just checks the box "Dim
previous bullets.") Nevertheless, I appreciate the tip. I would
never have figured that out.
 
Open the Custom Animation Taskpane and select the text box
object you want to change, click the dropdown arrow and click
"Modify", click the "Effects" TAB and change the "after
Animation" from "Don't Dim" to a desired color.
Click to expand...

Bill, that seems to create the effect, but at the wrong time. It
does it after the bullet has finished appearing. I'm looking for
the dim to occur when the next bullet comes up. But thanks.
 
To do this, add an Emphasis Effect of Fade to each of your
bullets. Move each of these animations up the timeline until it
sits under the entrance for the previous paragraph. The Emphasis
will default to on click. Change the entrance for the following
bullet to with previous.
Click to expand...

This actually does not work with a slide master. It will work with
individual screens, but in the slide master view one cannot move
the effect placques up under the appearance placques. The result
is that the appearances all work as planned, but then the effects
all work together; there is still no way, it appears, to create a
global setting of dimming on next bullet. Is there...?
 
No, it does not work on the slide master. The slide master only sets up one
set of animations for each of the levels of bullets. As you have found, that
is not what is desired most of the time. If, like me, this drives you nuts
and you would like to see it changed in the next version, please let
Microsoft know. For information on how to tell them, read this entry in
Steve Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Contact Microsoft: Use MSWish to request features, report problems, etc.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00545.htm

Meanwhile, to make it easier to add the animations you need to all the text
based slides, check out the Animation Carbon add-in from Shyam Pillai:
http://www.mvps.org/skp/ac/index.html

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com
Need to learn about advanced PowerPoint Animations? Check out:
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#pptanim

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
 
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