How do I reverse the credits animation in PowerPoint?

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The credit animation in PowerPoint is great but it always goes top to bottom.
This is supposed to be a film effect and films often scroll their credits
bottom to top. Is there any way to reverse the direction?

Mark
 
Add Effect > Entrance > Credits. This allows you to have credits scrolling
from bottom to top.
Add Effect > Exit > Credits. This allows you to have credits scrolling from
top to bottom.
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Thanks John. I've done simulations before in earlier versions and you're
quite right. Using fly-in like that will work but I was hoping to use the new
'credits' feature. Seems a shame because that's just what I've been wanting
but in the opposite direction. Most of the animations let you change
direction and speed.

Mark
 
Thank you Shawn. For some reason I was using it on Exit. Never dawned on me
to look under Entrance. I knew there must be a way somehow.

Mark
 
Hi Mark,

You seem to have a rather unique brand of weirdness happening on your
credits animation. I played around quickly and was not able to duplicate
your up-side-down credits animation. Are you sure you have your monitor
right-side-up? :)

Anyway, None of that matters, only getting the correct appearance. You can
use motion paths and custom timings on a regular textbox to get a credits
style of animation.

1) Create the text box (no larger than the height of the slide) and place it
just off the bottom of the slide.
2) Right click it and select custom animations
3) Select Add Effect => choose Motion Path => select 'UP'
4) On the animation pane select the motion path you just created and you
should see the green and red ended arrow that shows the size/direction of
the animation. Adjust the red (ending position) arrow to be above the top
of the slide by 1/2 the height of the textbox (approximation is usually good
enough).
5) select the animation in the pane again and use the down-arrow on the
right to select timing. Change the timing to 15 to 20 seconds (obviously
you can play with it to make it look right to you)

This should make it look 'just like' the credits animation.

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Duh!! Exit credits, never use them.

Bill Dilworth said:
Hi Mark,

You seem to have a rather unique brand of weirdness happening on your
credits animation. I played around quickly and was not able to duplicate
your up-side-down credits animation. Are you sure you have your monitor
right-side-up? :)

Anyway, None of that matters, only getting the correct appearance. You
can use motion paths and custom timings on a regular textbox to get a
credits style of animation.

1) Create the text box (no larger than the height of the slide) and place
it just off the bottom of the slide.
2) Right click it and select custom animations
3) Select Add Effect => choose Motion Path => select 'UP'
4) On the animation pane select the motion path you just created and you
should see the green and red ended arrow that shows the size/direction of
the animation. Adjust the red (ending position) arrow to be above the top
of the slide by 1/2 the height of the textbox (approximation is usually
good enough).
5) select the animation in the pane again and use the down-arrow on the
right to select timing. Change the timing to 15 to 20 seconds (obviously
you can play with it to make it look right to you)

This should make it look 'just like' the credits animation.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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Thanks Bill. As always there is more than one way to do these things. Your
way would work as well.

Mark
 
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