Using animation to remove items from a slide

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I'm using PowerPoint 2000 and I'm wondering how to use animation to remove
items from a screen. It seems that all the animation effects add new graphic
elements into the picture (by flying in, disolving, etc.). As such, the
effects add new information to the slide. What I'd like to do is just the
opposite: I'd like to begin with a complete slide and then with the mouse
click, I'd like text or graphic elements to fade away or in some other way,
be removed from the picture. Any thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
 
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Hi,

It is called "masking", or at least that is what I termed it. It is not
easy. But cover your thing you want to exit with something that is identical
to the slide background, and then make it enter. Exit animations in reverse.

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Robert McN said:
I'm using PowerPoint 2000 and I'm wondering how to use animation to remove
items from a screen. It seems that all the animation effects add new graphic
elements into the picture (by flying in, disolving, etc.). As such, the
effects add new information to the slide. What I'd like to do is just the
opposite: I'd like to begin with a complete slide and then with the mouse
click, I'd like text or graphic elements to fade away or in some other way,
be removed from the picture. Any thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Click to expand...

Choose Edit, Insert Duplicate slide. Select and delete the items you want to
remove. Apply a slide transition that suits you.

During a slide show, it will appear that the transition has been applied only to
the item being removed.
 
I will only reply to this last comment by Steve, by I want to thank all of
the respondents. I figured out the idea of duplicating a slide and deleting
the element. What happens, then is just the element disappears, without a
transition. I don't quite see how you use the transition. I'm leaving in
the morning for my presentation, so I might not be able to do this anyway,
but for future presentations I'd like to know.
Thanks again,
Bob
 
I will only reply to this last comment by Steve, by I want to thank all of
the respondents. I figured out the idea of duplicating a slide and deleting
the element. What happens, then is just the element disappears, without a
transition. I don't quite see how you use the transition. I'm leaving in
the morning for my presentation, so I might not be able to do this anyway,
but for future presentations I'd like to know.
Click to expand...

You'd apply a transition the slide (the duplicate) rather than to a shape.

For example if you wipe from a slide that has:

A Title Like

to a slide that has:

A Title Like This

then "This" will appear to wipe on.
 
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