Animated text goes jagged in Screen Show

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Problem

Animated text appears jagged when you view a slide show in PowerPoint.

Solutions/Workarounds
So far, we don't know of any solution to this problem, other than removing the animation from the text.

The smaller the text, the worse the problem; enlarging the text may help.

PowerPoint MVP Kathryn Jacobs has been keeping tabs on this problem and has summarized the results in this article at PowerPointAnswers.com

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