lazyweb: pres.. ent.. ations

[lovingboth]

In OpenOffice.org Presentation / MS PowerPoint, many people have

* one line

* appearing

* at a time

rather than everything on a slide at once.

I do this by copying the slide several times, then deleting text, so that slide 1 has 'one line', slide 2 has 'one line / appearing' and slide 3 has the lot.

Is there an easier way?

Comments

[purrthecat.livejournal.com]

Yes, go into the "Slide Show" tab at the top, "Custom Animation", then, you should be able to select each section you want and order them. Then click each to apply "Fly in from..." or whatever little effect you want from the list.

I hope this helps.

Each line will need to be in its own text box to be animated separately. But otherwise, that should give you alot more control with your presentation. Make sure you preview before closing, and watch the slide show preview all the way through before being sure you're 'done' :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Beat me too it - yes, you want Slide Show > Animation and you'll need to put each line you want to 'appear' in its own text box.

[juudes.livejournal.com]

You don't need to have each line in a different text box; under Slide Show > Custom Animation you can introduce text 'all at once' and 'grouped by 1st level paragraphs' (assuming you've set it up correctly using the automatic slide formatting). (This is in MS PPt, at least, but I guess it would be similar in Open Office).

[lovingboth]

Thanks to all of you...

I'm not sure I'll use it much, but someone else is going to be very pleased.