Map Overlays in Powerpoint 2000 Slideshow

[Bill Aris]

In a slideshow, I want to start with a blank map. The next
slide I would like to overlay a series of dots onto the
blank map along with a bit of text, next slide some
triangles and a bit of text, etc, etc.
It seems that I have to copy the blank map onto each
progressive slide to get the slideshow to work. This does
work very well but makes the filesize very large.
Why during the slideshow can't slide 1, with the blank
map, stay on screen and the following slides act like
mylar or transparent overlays onto the blank map?
I hope that was understandable.
Thank you, very much in advance as I have learned so much
from this newsgroup over the last couple of months.

 

[Sonia]

First, be sure that you go to Tools > Options > Save and turn OFF Fast Saves.
Create your first slide and then use Insert > Duplicate Slide to create the
"base" for the subsequent slides. Your file will only increase nominally when
using the Duplicate Slide function.

To confirm this, open PowerPoint, go to File > New. Create a slide with your
map on it and save it as Pres1.ppt. Then duplicate slide #1 five times (you'll
have six slides) and save the presentation as Pres2.ppt. Now go to Windows
Explorer and locate the two files. Compare their sizes. Pres2 should only be
slightly larger than Pres1.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You have a couple of options:

You can put the map on the Slide master. That way, it will be on every
slide (but not add to the file size).

You can put the whole thing on one slide and use animation effects to
first bing in the dots and then the triangles, etc.

Is there a reason you are doing this on several slides?

--David

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David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In a slideshow, I want to start with a blank map. The next
slide I would like to overlay a series of dots onto the
blank map along with a bit of text, next slide some
triangles and a bit of text, etc, etc.
It seems that I have to copy the blank map onto each
progressive slide to get the slideshow to work. This does
work very well but makes the filesize very large.
Why during the slideshow can't slide 1, with the blank
map, stay on screen and the following slides act like
mylar or transparent overlays onto the blank map?
I hope that was understandable.

It was.

For starters, if the map is an image, you can insert it once from file then
copy/paste from one slide to another within PowerPoint w/o much of an effect on
file size. PPT keeps one "real" copy of the image and in effect, links to it
for the copies. But do insert, picture, from file to get the original in
there. If you copy/paste the picture in, all bets are off.

That said, it's not really necessary. Instead, start with the map, draw the
other gadgets you want on top of it, then use animation settings to set the
order and way in which each will appear. The exact steps depend on which
version of PPT you have; if you have any trouble working it out, c'mon back
and give a yell.


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[Guest]

You can do this, but it is all associated wit the first slide by setting the subsequent (transparent) overlay's 'Custom Automation'.

Lay the overlay onto the 'blank' map and either 'Right-click' and select Custom Animation' from the context menu, or select it from the 'Slide Show' pull-down menu. Both the 'entrance' and 'exit' effect can be set for each overlay, as is most appropriate. If the overlays build one on the other, then just have them enter one after the other. Otherwise, remove the previous on as the next one is invoked.

The slide show runs just the same with the overlays appearing on each subsequent action normally used to adcance slides - Enter key, mouse click, space bar, down arrow, etc ...

Tom Lavedas
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[Sonia]

Caveat . . . PowerPoint 2000 doesn't have Exit animations.

You can do this, but it is all associated wit the first slide by setting the

subsequent (transparent) overlay's 'Custom Automation'.

Lay the overlay onto the 'blank' map and either 'Right-click' and select

Custom Animation' from the context menu, or select it from the 'Slide Show'
pull-down menu. Both the 'entrance' and 'exit' effect can be set for each
overlay, as is most appropriate. If the overlays build one on the other, then
just have them enter one after the other. Otherwise, remove the previous on as
the next one is invoked.

The slide show runs just the same with the overlays appearing on each

subsequent action normally used to adcance slides - Enter key, mouse click,
space bar, down arrow, etc ...

 

[Echo S]

Yes, there is indeed a "hide after mouse click" option, but it doesn't work
right in PPT 2000, 2002, or 2003. It worked right in PPT 97, but then of
course MS "fixed" it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;235622&Product=ppt2000
for specifics.

What you describe could be done with only entrance animations, though. The
original poster might have to cover some items by animating in a
background-filled object, but it should be doable.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Understood, but it had a similar feature, did it not - that specified

whether to remove the object upon the next mouse-click? I don't have a copy
handy to check. I'm going on memory.