How to achieve this effect?

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Jeff

I am using PP 2002 in XP and would like to achieve the following effect if
it is possible. Don't know if it can be done.

On a single slide with a background, I would like several images to fade-in
and out repeatedly but not simultaneously. For example (just to simplify
things) :

1. an image should fade in in the left lower corner and then fade out
2. as it fades out (or following it) another image should appear in the
right top corner and then fade out.
3. (1) and (2) should repeat until the next mouse click occurs.

Can this effect be achieved? Or something similar?

Jeff
 
As Tohlz says this is an add in job really. There is a way to fake it but its
quite complicated / devious!

First set up one cycle with suitable delays ie entrance 1 - entrance 2 -
exit 1- exit 2
Add a 99% transparent rectangle over the slide and make it appear after the
above cycle. (using the advanced timeline is a good idea)

Now make the slide a custom show. Give the last rectangle an action setting
to hyperlink to the custom show (tick show and return) The cycle runs and
then links back to the start! The problem is that you need to make the
pointer visible at the start of the show (ctrl A or right click > pointer
options) and have the pointer on screen or it wont work

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After a little experiment if you give the custom show slide an auto
transition and set it to loop you dont need the mouseover!! You'll need a
button to get to the main show though
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John said:
After a little experiment if you give the custom show slide an auto
transition and set it to loop you dont need the mouseover!! You'll
need a button to get to the main show though
Click to expand...
 
John said:
After a little experiment if you give the custom show slide an auto
transition and set it to loop you dont need the mouseover!! You'll
need a button to get to the main show though
Click to expand...

That's the part I cannot seem to get done: getting it to loop.

1. I've made that slide a custom show and named it "Slide 1"
2. I set the last image on that slide to hyperlink to the custom show "Slide
1"
(tried it with both on mouse click and on mouse over, but neither worked for
me).
3. I set the slide transition to "Advance automatically" (mouse click off
because I need it to go automatically)
Could not find a setting to make it "loop".

I am a relative novice at PowerPoint and may be doing something wrong. Any
suggestions as to what that might be?

Jeff
 
Step by step

1. Make the entrance and exit animations so that one cycle looks right
2. In slide show > custom show choose new and add the slide to a custom show
(name it looper if you want) It must be a custom show to reset the animations
3. Make sure transition is set to auto after 0 secs
4. In slide show set up show choose loop continuously until esc and maybe
show slides = custom show
5.Run the show and see if it works
6. When it works add an action button to hyperlink to slide x where thats
the start of the main show
7. Be aware that the main show will loop too (you can add an end show button)
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html
 
Thank you for the detailed instructions. I am learning a lot.

I will try it and let you know.

Jeff
 
You are a true genius. Works like a charm. My problem (as I discovered) was
that, although in "Set-up Show" I had the 'loop continuously until esc'
selected, in the box for 'show slides' I had slides selected instead of
custom show. My dummy.

Remaining problems:
1. when I press esc, it stops the loop but also takes me out of slideshow
and back into editing mode instead of going to the next slide. Is there a
way to make the esc make it transition into the next slide?

2. No matter what other slide I am on, when I click on the 'Slide show icon'
the show goes to the looper slide. I'm probably doling something wrong. If I
switch to selecting 'show slides' instead of 'custom show' in "Set-up
Show\show Slides" then the looper no longer loops but the rest of slideshow
works.

I added an action button with its action setting being to go to the next
slide, but clicking on it while the looper was looping as a slideshow had no
effect.

Perhaps the answer would be to leave the looper slide in a separate file and
have an action button open all the other slides as a slideshow in another
separate file.

Maybe this will not work in PP XP (2002)?

Jeff
 
I should add that the action buttons were grayed out and what I added (a
colored square) was probably not really a functioning action button.

Jeff
 
Done!! Works.

I made it work by copy and pasting the action button on your free download
"true and false" ppt. Do not know why mine would not work, but with the
addition of your everything works fine.

You are definitely a genius. I visited your website and it is amazing. If
you ever write a book on PowerPoint animation I am buying it. I had no idea
PP could do all that.

Thank you very much.

Jeff
 
Spoke too soon.

If in "Set-up Show\show Slides" I select "All" or "From x to y" the looping
does not happen but the action button works. If in "Set-up Show\show
Slides" I select "Custom show" looping works but the action button does not
work and selecting Slideshow on any other slide just startes looper and only
looper.

Seems like a Catch 22 situation <grin>

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,
I have a sample here based on what you have mentioned in your first post. If
you can drop me an email at pptheaven[at]gmail[dot]com, I can send you the
sample there, then tell me if that is what you want.
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP PowerPoint)

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