Zooming animation

[ricirv]

I am using Powerpoint 2000 and would like to do some animations where I have a large version of a graphic on the screen which zooms to a smaller version in a corner of the screen. The larger image will be used to introduce a new topic and the smaller ones will line up along the bottom to show how we are progressing. I know I could do the same thing without the zoom effect, but I thought this would be a better way of doing it. My question is can this be done in Ppt 2000 and if so how?

Thanks in advance

[Doctor]

I think that the facility you are looking for was introduced in PowerPoint 2002 (also known as PowerPoint XP) and is called Motion Paths.

It is not as easy to do this in PowerPoint as it is in Flash where you can create a motion tween.

With PowerPoint 2000 there are no motion paths. The closest that I can suggest would be to split the effect into two slides. Slide 1 shows the large image, slide 2 shows the small image - possibly with a Box Out animation.

If you do upgrade to PowerPoint XP here is how to do it.

1. Start with a Motion Path - I have used Diagonal Up right, though any straight line would work

2. Use the Grow/ Shrink command to set it down to 25%. This would then allow the size of the image to get smaller. Make sure that you do this automatically (start after previous).

This should give you a good approximation of what you are looking to achieve. In the following slides you may have to overlay a smaller version of the original graphic to keep the consistency there.


Kind regards