Replacing Pictures without changing customer animations

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I use PPT to create picute slide shows. Each picture is
formatted with several customer animations. Is ther a way
to replace an existing picture while keeping the customer
animations?
 
Hi,

Put your image behind an autoshape. Animate the autoshape.

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Do you mean "could not work without it!"? <G>

Troy @ TLC said:
There is an add-in that permits this (could not work with it!). Check out
PPTools Import/Export (http://corpimaging.com/PowerTools/pt-im-ex.htm).
Images imported with it (works just like PPT's image import), can be updated
AND keeps the position, size and animations.

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, inc.
troy at tlccreative dot com
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Oops... Yes Sonia, that was a typo. I mean I use the tool all the time and
it is invaluable!

Thanks for keeping me honest.
-Troy
 
Glen,

Thank you for the suggestion but what do you mean when you
say "put the image behind an autoshape"? I've tried
grouping the autoshape with the image but all the
animation gets lost. It would very helpful if you can
provide some step by step instructions.

Thanks again,

Peter
 
Thank you for the suggestion but what do you mean when you
say "put the image behind an autoshape"? I've tried
grouping the autoshape with the image but all the
animation gets lost. It would very helpful if you can
provide some step by step instructions.
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I think Glen meant for you to doubleclick the autoshape to get the formatting
dialog box, then give the autoshape a picture fill instead of a normal color
fill.
 
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Hello,

This ability has been in PowerPoint since (at least) PowerPoint 97,
although in a somewhat limited fashion.

Basically, if you have an animation effect applied to the "Object area for
AutoLayouts" in your Slide Master, and you insert your pictures using the
slide autolayouts using the object (PPT 97/2000) or content (PPT 2002/2003)
placholders in those layouts to contain the pictures, the pictures will be
automatically animated.

Then, if you delete a picture it is replaced by the empty object/content
placeholder and you can insert a new picture into the placeholder and the
animation is applied automatically to the new picture. The steps vary
somewhat from version to version so I'll give sample steps for the latest 2
versions of PowerPoint (2002 and 2003).

1) Apply entry animation (Fly from left) to "Object Area for AutoLayouts"
in Slide Master
2) In new slide choose slide layout with content placeholders
3) Insert picture into slide by clicking on the "Insert Picture" or "Insert
Clip Art" button in the middle of the content placeholder (and insert your
picture)
4) Verify that the picture animates as intended
5) Delete picture (picture is replaced by empty content placeholder
6) Repeat step 3 to put a new picture in the placeholder
7) Verify that the animation still works for the new picture.

The additional benefit of PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 is that, with multiple
masters, you can have different slide masters with different animations
effects (or none at all) and you change/remove the animation from the
pictures in any slide by simply applying a different master (design) to the
selected slide.

In PPT 97/2000 you don't have the buttons inside of the object placeholders
so you have to "place" the pictures differently into the placeholders but,
other than that, the behavior is the same when deleting and replacing the
picture with a new one (the animation from the Slide Master is retained).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that this capability
can/should be improved in PowerPoint (without have to resort to an add-in
or VBA), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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