In PowerPoint 2002/3:
This is a little complicated, but will give you a detailed method for
getting a quality Marquee effect:
Set-up textbox:
- This is easiest if you shrink the slide image in the edit pane a little
- Select anything on the slide
- Click on View | Zoom... | and select 33%
- Make a textbox and add with your text.
- Limit the length to not more than two screen widths
(don't worry if you have more, we'll cover that in a bit)
- Format the text and background to suit
- Drag off the right-hand edge of the slide until the left edge is aligned
with the right edge of the slide
Set-up the animation:
- Right click the text box.
- Select Custom Animations
- Select Add Effects from the task pane
- Select Motion Paths
- Select Move Left
(this will make two arrows appear on the slide. The green one represents
the middle of the box at it's start point, the red one representation the
middle of the box at it's end point.)
- Drag the red box an equal distance off the left side of the screen as the
green one is to the right.
Adjust the scrolling speed:
- Click on the effect in the animation pane
- Click on the arrow pulldown beside the effect.
- Select Timing...
- Click on the Speed box
- Delete what ever is there and try something like 10
- While you are here, select the 'Effect' tab in the dialog box and remove
the check boxes from smooth start and smooth end.
- Try to play the slide and see if this is to fast/slow
- Adjust the timing until a good speed is set.
Making more:
- Select the completed textbox you set-up from above.
- Hold the Ctrl (Control) button down and click on and drag the text box
DOWN until you can see a duplicate frame beneath the original.
- Change the text in this new textbox to your next line of text or whatever
- Goto the timing box (as was described above)
- Change the 'Start' option to 'With Previous'
- Change the delay to the speed times the number of copies you've made
(for instance if the speed is 10 and this is the third time you've copied
it, the delay would be 30)
- Repeat as needed
Putting it together:
- Select all the textboxes as once
- Click on the Draw toolbar button
- Select the distribute and align
- Select the Align Top
- Select the Draw | Distribute and align | Left
- All the boxes should now be stacked exactly on top of each other
Limitations:
- The animation will not continue across slides, only within a single slide
- While this complicated animation is running no other animations can run,
except by using the 'Start with previous' and 'Delay' method.
I'm sure this is posted somewhere on an FAQ, but I didn't see it. Here you
go. HTH
--
Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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