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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2005questions about MS OFfice for Mac OS X
I am using Microsoft Office V. X for Mac OS X, specifically Powerpoint. I notice that there is no support for the following: - motion paths - limited customization of the timing of graphic effects (for example, you cannot insert a pause after an effect is displayed, only before) - customizing the order of effects (once you "insert" an effect, it can only be added or removed, not re-ordered) Is there a way to gain access to these features? Is there an update I can install? If I save a PP Presentation with motion paths on a PC version of MS PP and then try to play it on the Mac version, will it work? Am I missing something? Thanks, Eric Jaffe Hi Eric, Motion paths are a new feature of PowerPoint 2004. To use them you will need to upgrade. Motion paths that are put into PowerPoint 2004 will not display in earlier versions of PowerPoint except for PowerPoint 2003 for Windows (some of them might work in PowerPoint XP for Windows). Motion paths created in Mac PowerPoint 2004 work in Windows PowerPoint 2003 and vice-versa. PowerPoint 2004 does not have a GUI for creating or editing motion paths, but it will honor visual basic commands for creating and controlling motion paths. I put a link and a code sample in a different message you posted. When you set the "timing" for an effect to play, you are correct in that the amount of time is the time elapsed before the effect will play. That covers all situations that I can think of since any subsequent effect has it's own timing as well. In PowerPoint v.X click the "Order and Timing" button in the custom animation dialog box to change the order of animations. In PowerPoint 2004 that functionality is available in the main custom animation dialog. -Jim  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > I am using Microsoft Office V. X for Mac OS X, specifically Powerpoint. I > notice that there is no support for the following: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks, > Eric Jaffe |
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