PPT2000: Animation Timings Appear To Be Shorter than in Previous Versions of PowerPoint

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SYMPTOMS

Presentation objects with Custom Animation timings that were set to zero seconds, appear to animate faster after a series of animations or a long animation effect (such as the Crawl animation effect).

When you show presentations created with prior versions of PowerPoint, this behavior is more evident .

CAUSE

The narration feature of PowerPoint have been improved so that it synchronizes better with build effects. For this to work properly, animation timings must be measured from the start of the previous animation to the start of the next animation.

This is a change in the way earlier versions of PowerPoint handled timing events. Earlier versions of PowerPoint measure time between the end of an animation to the start of the next animation.

WORKAROUND

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Method 1: Set Custom Animations to the Appear Effect

1. In Slide view, display the slide that has the text or objects you want to animate.



2. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.



3. In the Check to Animate Slide Objects box, click to select all the animated objects.
   
   

   NOTE: You can use the SHIFT key to select a contiguous group of objects. Click the first item you want, and SHIFT+Click the last object you want to select.

   Also, you can use the CTRL key to select discontinuous objects in the list.



4. Click the Effects tab.



5. Under Entry animation and sound, select the Appear effect.



6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each slide.

Sub EffectChange()
   Dim oSlide As Slide
   Dim oShape As Shape
   
   'Loop through each slide of the presentation.
   For Each oSlide In ActivePresentation.Slides
   
      'Loop through each shape on the slide.
      For Each oShape In oSlide.Shapes
         
         'If the shape has been set to animate, set
         'the animation effect to Appear.
         If oShape.AnimationSettings.Animate Then
            oShape.AnimationSettings.EntryEffect = ppEffectAppear
         End If
      Next oShape
   Next oSlide
End Sub 

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Method 2: Change Custom Animation Timings

Animation Effect	Duration Seconds
Crawl	5
Flash Once: Slow	2
Spiral	2
Swivel	5
Zoom Out	2

On the Title Slide of your presentation, you have the following animations and timings set:

• The timing of Fly from Right, when applied to title text by word with 4 words, is zero seconds.
• The timing of Shape 1 with the Swivel animation applied to it is 5 seconds.
• The timing of Shape 2 with the Swivel animation applied to it is 5 seconds.
• The timing of text in the subtitle frame with Fly from Bottom applied to it is 6 seconds.

To make sure the animations occur at the times you want, adjust the time between animations to take in account the duration of actual animation.

After the adjustment, the timings reflect the duration of the actual animation. Each word in the title will take one second to perform the Fly animation, regardless of which direction it flies in from. Therefore, it will take 4 seconds for the animation to be completed.

Shapes 1 and 2 use the Swivel animation, which takes 5 seconds. Do not worry about the timings for the first and last objects to be animated. The first word of the title will fly in at the same time every time. The subtitle is the last thing to animate, only its timings need to be changed, not the duration

• The timing of Title animation has no change in timing.
• The timing of timing is set to 9 seconds.
• The timing of Shape 2 is set to 10 seconds.
• The timing of Subtitle text is set to 11 seconds.

1. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation



2. Select the Order & Timing tab.



3. In the Animation order box, click to select the object that you want to change the timings on.



4. Adjust the number of seconds to the desired interval.



5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each subsequent object.



6. When you finish, click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

Additional query words: PPT2K PPT2000 PPT POWERPNT 2000 PPT9 9.0

Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: June 28, 1999