How to Animate a Table
As a whole: Select the table and apply any custom animation.
By parts (rows or columns):
Method 1: (Recommended): Insert or create the table. With the whole
table selected, from the Drawing bar, select |. Each cell is now a drawing object. Select the cells that you
want to appear together and group them (Draw | Group). Apply your
animations to each grouped object. (Be careful as you work to not drag
parts around.)
Method 2: Create a separate table for each
row (or column) and apply custom animation to each one. (Yes, it is awkward!)
How to create separate tables for each row/column:
- Turn off AutoLayout.
Or, undo AutoLayout each time you create a table.
- Create the
full table on a separate slide (which you will delete when you are done) or
in Word with the size cells that you want.
- Copy row (or column).
- Paste onto your slide as a separate table.
(Will be centered.)
- Drag into position.
- Repeat for each row (or column).
- Arrange the tables on the slide so that the cell borders line up.
- Select all the tables.
- Apply a Custom Animation effect.
- Delete the temporary slide, if you used one.
- Turn AutoLayout back on, if you wish.
How to Animate Chart
As a whole: Apply animation scheme to slide or select chart and
apply a custom animation.
By parts (series or categories):
-
Select
the chart.
- Apply a custom animation.
- Open the Effects Options dialog to the Chart Animation tab.
- Select from the Group chart list.
(Only certain animation will offer choices here, like Fade, Appear, Box,
or Random Bars, that do not involve moving the object
around on the slide)

Reveal
by categories

Reveal by series
Animations
Conflict:
If you start applying custom animations on top of animation schemes (or
just lots of custom animations), you may find some glitches in your Slide
Show. The combinations do not always play well together.
Problem: Some effects do not show at all, but to advance the slides you have to click as
though the effects were there!
Problem: Some effects reveal again what was already revealed.
Solution: Change the order of animations in the Custom Animation
pane or delete some of them.
Problem: A custom animation on a certain slide does not work well
with the animation applied by the slide's master. The animations from the
master are grayed out in the Custom Animation pane and cannot be deleted or
edited there. Changing the animation on the master will change it for all
slides, which is not what you want!
Solution: Do not apply an animation scheme to the master. Apply an
animation scheme to selected slides. For slides that you want to be different, apply a
different scheme or Remove the scheme and apply custom animations.
Solution: Create a new master without the
animation. Apply this new master to the selected slide - not to all
of the slides.
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Step-by-Step:Animate Data |
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What you will learn: |
to apply custom animation
to create new master from old
to rename a master
to reveal chart by series
to reveal chart by category |
Start with: ,
nz-import.ppt from previous lesson
View Current Animation for Slide
The animation scheme that you applied to the slide master
applies the Fade effect to the Title placeholder and the Wipe effect to
the Body. What does it do to the chart?
-
Select the slide
Rain Days to show it in the Slide Pane.
- Click
the Slide Show button at the bottom left. The Slide Show opens to the
current slide. The Title fades into view.
- Click the slide.
The chart wipes into view as one whole object.
- Press the ESC key to return to Normal view.

Animation Scheme:
Fade Title, Wipe Body
Apply Custom Animation
You can make the chart appear in parts, but you must create a Custom
Animation to do so.
-
Click on the chart to select it.
- If necessary, open the Custom Animation task pane.
[ | ]
-
Click
the Add Effect button at the top of the Custom Animation task pane
and select Entrance and then Fade.
Fade does
not show in the short list: Click on More Effects... and select it from
the full list of effects.
The Slide Pane automatically runs the new effect, which shows the chart fading into view
as a whole.
 The
chart is now marked at the upper left with a box with the number 1.
There are no boxes
to show the animations from the slide master. The Custom Animation pane
lists those animations in gray.
-
Click the Play button
at the bottom of the Custom Animation pane.
As the list in the pane says, first the animations from the Master play and
then the custom animation. This makes the chart wipe into view, disappear,
and then fade into view. Whoops! You didn't want two effects on the same
chart!

Run animation effects:
Fade Title, Wipe chart, Fade chart
Create Copy of Slide Master
The only way to keep the animations on the slide master from playing is to
create a new master. This feature appeared first in
PowerPoint 2002. You want to
include all of the formatting of the Slide Master except the animation scheme.
-
Open
the Master view to the Slide Master.
- Click on the thumbnail for the Slide Master, not the Title
Master.
- Copy.
- Right click below the Title Master.
- Paste. Copies of both the Slide and Title Masters appear below the
originals.
-
Click
on the new Title Master and press the DELETE key. Now
you have just 3 thumbnails.
The icons beside the thumbnail show that some kind of animation has been
applied.
Edit, Rename, & Apply Master
You can now make changes to the new master. The new master will look
just like the old one. You can give it a new name so you can tell the
difference in the list of design templates.
-
If necessary,
open the Custom Animation pane. [|]
- With the new slide master still selected, click on the #1 animation in the list in the pane. This is
for the Body placeholder.
- Click the Remove button. Your master still has the
animation for the Title placeholder.
-
Hover
over each thumbnail at the left. A popup tip tells you the name of
the design template and which slides use it. VERY helpful.
-
Right
click on the thumbnail of the new slide master and select
from the popup menu.
A dialog appears.
-
Type
Chart Master and click the Rename
button.
- Close the Master view.
- If necessary, show the slide Rain Days in the Slide Pane.
- Show the Design Templates task pane. [
|| ]
-
Hover
over the templates at the top, Used in this presentation. Do not click
the template thumbnail! That would apply the template to all slides.
If you did
click, Undo immediately.
Which is the new
Chart Master?
-
Click
on the arrow at the right of the Chart Master template and select
from the menu.
-
Click
the Slide Show button at the bottom left of the window to see the animations
for this slide.
Now the Title fades into view and the chart fades into view. The Wipe effect
is gone! Whew!

Run animation effects:
Fade Title, Fade chart
Change Effects Options
Now you can modify the Fade effect to show just part of the chart at a time.
-
Click
the down arrow at the right of the animation effect in the list in
the Custom Animation task pane.
-
Click on The Effect Options dialog for Fade appears.
-
Click
on the Chart Animation tab.
- Open the list under Group chart: and select
By series .
These choices are not there for every effect.
The checkbox for Animate grid and legend is automatically checked.

- Click on OK.
The Slide Pane plays the revised custom animation (chart only). The bars are
revealed by series, that is, one color at a time.

Run animation effects:
Fade Title, Fade chart by parts
Save
As nz-animatedata.ppt to your
Class disk.
How to handle a full Class disk

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Last updated:
30 Apr 2012 |