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Stacey Lackey

I have a presentation that I am producing. My boss has
information that must be set up in table form. He wants
to be able to have the information appear on the screen
with a mouse click. He wants each piece of information in
the table to enter the screen one at a time but by mouse
click. Can this be done?

I have read my book and gone online. However all I can
make happen is each line of text comes in one word at a
time but all at once.
 
I don't know about an easy way. You could probably do it
the hard way by making copies of the table on many
different screens, then on the first one delete everything
but the first piece of info. 2nd on all but the first
two. Etc.
However, I would STRONGLY encourage your boss NOT to
do this. It will really irritate his audience.
PowerPoint makes it much easier to create a presentation
with a lot of bells and whistles that should NOT be used
in a professional looking presentation. He needs some
education, or to use someone to design his presentations.
Easy to say, of course. You could just tell him you
couldn't find a good way to do it.
 
Do you have to use an actual table? Or does it just have
to look like a table? Could you just make your own
table, put each item in its own text box, and then
animate each text box separately?

I'm not sure what you mean by "each line of text comes in
one word at a time but all at once." How can it be both
one word at a time and all at once? Please clarify.

Also, what version of PPT are you using?
 
What I'm picturing is that original poster is using tabs to set up a
table (like you might do in Word if you didn't have the Table tools) so
each line becomes a row in a table. The problem is that the animation
effects bring in a whole line at a time (even the word by word effect
simply brings the entire line in on one click, it just flies in a word at
a time).

Sari's solution seems to be the best one: setting up the "table" as a
bunch of individual text boxes, each of which can have their own
animation settings. This way, they can fly in in any order and with any
groupings you want.

--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/
 
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