Computer Question

chuck shaw

I am trying to figure out how to do an animation on a computer drawing. What I am thinking, is using a "dot" to show movement thru a piping diagram. Or perhaps have a "wire" highlight when power is applied. I would then like to incorperate it into a powerpoint, I know I have seen it done, but in reading the books I have, I have not seen how to do it.

Will I need a special program? Or am I missing soming thing in Visio, Powerpoint or some other program.

I know we have some homeowners, that are computer people, any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Chuck Shaw

Alan R. Mercurio_3

Chuck, e-mail me a number where you can be reached Monday Morning. I'm no expert however I do write all my own presentations in power point and I'd be happy to sher some tips with you.

Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio

www.oiltechtalk.com

chuck shaw

Anyone

able to help me on this?

Thanks,

Chuck

Alan R. Mercurio_3

Chuck, I apologize I was unable to call you Monday and right now I'm away at Oil Heat Cares. I'll do my best to contact you before the week is out.

Again I'm sorry brother.

Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio

www.oiltechtalk.com

Steve_24

how to animate a powerpoint slide

check out this link for how to animate a powerpoint slide:

Steve_24

how to animate a Powerpoint slide

Go to the following site for instructions:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010750921033.aspx

I know how to animate powerpoint slides so I don't know if the instructions will be easy to follow for someone who doesn't. If you have trouble, you can call me and I will walk you through animating a slide.

chuck shaw

Thanks, I had see that,

I know how to pull items into powerpoint, and animate it that way. I wanted to animate a completed drawing, within one powerpoint slide. To show movement, on a complete slide.

I think I will end up having to make a movie, and have that as the slide.

Chuck

steve_53

Animate a Powerpoint slide

Animating a single slide using Powerpoint's animation commands requires that the slide have discrete elements that can be made to appear at different times. Creating an animated slide can be time consuming because the image must have multiple parts, and you must specify when and how each part appears when the slide is viewed.

When you select an entire, completed Visio drawing, and then copy and paste it into a Powerpoint slide you are essentially importing a image of the drawing. Because of this you cannot select separate parts of the image to appear at different times.

There are several approaches to animating a drawing done in Visio, all of which involve creating a Powerpoint slide composed of multiple elemnets. One is to go into Visio, copy and paste the drawing piece by piece into Powerpoint, and then animate the elements of the drawing in Powerpoint (this is the method described in the link). Another would be to paste the entire drawing and then overlay lines or elements that you want to animate. For example, you could overlay a series of dots or arrows along a pipe, and then animate the dots to show movement. Still another approach would be to overlay a series of Visio drawings that represent your system at different times, and then have the drawings appear in time sequence when the slide is viewed.

Now that Visio is a Microsoft product, I wouldn't be surprised if the newer versions of Visio (mine is Visio 2000) would allow you to export a drawing into Powerpoint without losing its descrete elements. That would make it much easier to animate the Visio image in Powerpoint.

Again, I'd be happy to talk you through animating a slide. It's awfully hard, and time consuming, to explain it in writing.

steve_53

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No sooner do I say something then I learn something new. I found that you can copy an entire Visio drawing, paste it into Powerpoint, and then return the drawing to a set of descrete elements. Simply select the drawing as it appears in Powerpoint, right click, and ungroup the drawing. You may see a warning that some information will be lost after the drawing is ungrouped, but when I experimented with this approach I didn't have any problems.

Alan R. Mercurio_3

I see what you're trying to do know Chuck. sorry that is a little above my talent level I'm getting there though, I hope!

Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio

www.oiltechtalk.com