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Make animated text appear line by line (build slides)

Problem

You want to have text on your slide(s) appear line by line.

Solution

If you use PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, see Echo Swinford's Animation Features tutorial on Echo's Voice

Or here's the quick start from Kathy Jacobs:

PowerPoint 2002 and up
You need to change the "Group By" value for the bullets to one level higher than the number of indentation levels in the text you're animating.

If you don't want to do this by hand on every slide, you can set up the Animation and Group By settings on the Slide Master and it will automatically apply to the placeholder text of each slide.

PowerPoint 2000 and previous
You need to change the "Group By" value for the bullets to one level higher than the number of indentation levels in the text you're animating.

If you don't want to do this by hand on every slide, you can set up the Animation and Group By settings on the Slide Master and it will automatically apply to the placeholder text of each slide.

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Make animated text appear line by line (build slides)
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Last update 07 June, 2011
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