Animation – Bullets

Bulleted Text Animation This feature is only available in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) and 2003 You want to apply individual animation to bullets in a placeholder. There are a couple of ways to do this. Step 1: Right-click an object on your slide and choose Custom Animation....

Animation: Grow-Shrink

This feature is only available in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) Grow/Shrink is a cool little tool, but I admit it threw me the first time I saw it in the beta version of PPT 2002. Especially when I tried to shrink something I’d just grown. (Dirty minds outta the...

Multiple Masters

Multiple Masters for PPT 2002 and 2003 Multiple masters are only available in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) and 2003. However, if you apply this feature in PPT 2002 or 2003, the slide masters are all still there when you open the file in PPT 2000. In PPT 97 only some of the...

Animation – Modifying

Changing Animations on Individual Slides This feature is only available in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) and 2003 Let’s say you’ve applied an animation to the master slide or slides in your presentation–or you’ve applied an animation scheme to the...

Autorun CD Links

Autorun CD (third-party products) Note: [date]. As the industry has changed over the years, products have come and gone. Alas, these changes have caused some broken links on this page (it is an older tutorial, after all.) We’ve left the links for archival...

Autorun CD II

Autorun CD (do it yourself) Using the New Viewer in PPT 2003 in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) Microsoft released a new PowerPoint Viewer in October 2003. Unlike the old Viewer, this new Viewer supports the animations and transitions used in PPT 2002 and 2003. Some...