PPT97: Slides With Automatic Animation Timing Print Incorrectly

ID: Q157162

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to print slides with animations, some of your slides may not print as you expect. Specifically, if the animation timing is set to automatic, all objects on a particular slide that have animation effects print at the same time. This means that if you have a slide with three paragraphs of text that have build effects, the slide prints differently if the build effects happen automatically or if you have to advance them manually. If the slide builds automatically, you get a single printed copy of the slide that contains all the animated text. If the slide builds manually you get four printed copies of the slide; one copy without any of the built paragraphs, one copy with only the first paragraph, one copy with the first two paragraphs, and one copy with all three paragraphs.

CAUSE

PowerPoint treats multiple automatic animation effects as though they are all parts of one large animation effect.

RESOLUTION

If you want to print these slides with their animation effects, you must temporarily change the animation timings to manual.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: 97 8.00 ppt8 build slides all at once individually separately printout output incorrect

Keywords          : kbprint
Version           : WINDOWS:97; MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Hardware          : MAC x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: November 30, 1998