Way to continue movement across slides?

[Rebecca]

I have a presentation that has an airplane image moving from point to
point on each slide. As it is now, it moves from point A to B and
stops, then on the next slide from point B to C, stops, etc. While
this is going on there is narration and some text animation occurring.
What the client wants is to make the plane seem as though it does not
stop, but moves constantly from the first point to the final point.

I tried slowing down the animation, which helps, but as soon as you
click to move to the next slide, the plane stops until the next slide
comes up and then is not moving when that next slide somes up. Setting
it to start as soon as the slide comes up might work but then I can't
get the other animations to work properly. Clicking to start one of
the text animations stops the plane and when I try to set the
animations as "with" or "after" with delays, it does not work
correctly.

I thought about layering the entire thing on one slide but that would
be a nightmare -too much info to manage.

Any way to give the impression something is moving constantly from
slide to slide?

 

[Guest]

Hi Rebecca

You could try using the ticker tape feature of the PowerShow add-in (not
free I'm afraid):
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow_ticker_show.html I hvaen't used
it personally but it looks like it might be just what you are after.

For a maunal fix, try setting the slide transition to no effect and
automatic after 1 second *less* than the plane animation and put the plane
animation at the top of the list of animations & 'with previous'.

Other than that trial, error, banging head against wall, crying, percussive
maintenance...

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

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