Advanced Text Crawl Animation Guide

1. Step 1: Create the Textboxes • Create a textbox • Right-click the textbox and go to FormatTextBox • In the Textbox tab, deselect “wrap” if it’s selected • In the Textbox tab, select “Resize Autoshape to fit text.” • This gets rid of any extra “textbox” to the right of the text • Type in the text to crawl across the page • Copy the textbox, Paste in the copy, and align the two textboxes so they’re on top of each other • Drag the textboxes off the left edge of the slide This is sentence number one with long text. This is sentence number two with long text.

2. Shape 3=Textbox #1 Entrance Effect=Crawl in Direction=From Right Speed=Very Slow Start=After Previous (to begin automatically when the slide begins) Shape 4=Textbox#2 Entrance Effect=Crawl in Direction=From Right Speed=Very Slow Start=With Previous This will cause both textboxes to begin at the same time Step 2: Set the Custom Animation

3. Click the arrow next to one of the textboxes listed in the custom animation pane Show the advanced timeline These grey bars show when the animations will happen Step 3: Show Advanced Animation

4. Move your mouse over the grey box associated with Textbox #2 until it becomes a double-headed arrow Drag the left edge of the grey box to the right This indicates how far into the first animation before the second one begins Drag the right edge of the grey box further to the right This indicates when the second animation will end Step 4: Tweak the Animation

5. Select the Timing option Step 5: Make the Animations Repeat • On the Timing tab, choose to repeat “until end of slide”

6. Set the repeat timing for both textboxes This is what your advanced animation bars will look like after the repeats have been set Play the presentation to test You may need to tweak the timing, depending on the length of your text This is most easily accomplished before setting the repeat until next slide Step 6: Test