PPT2001: Animations Assigned to Slide Masters Do Not Appear in PowerPoint Movie Format

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SYMPTOMS

Slide masters in Microsoft PowerPoint control certain text and object characteristics for all slides based on the slide masters. If you make a change to a placeholder in a slide master (for example, you add animation), that change is displayed in all the slides based on that slide master when you view the SlideShow.

However, if you save a PowerPoint document in PowerPoint Movie format, any slides based on a slide master that has had animations assigned to it do not display those animations when the movie is played.

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RESOLUTION

To display the animations in PowerPoint Movie format, apply them directly to the items in each slide, instead of applying them to the placeholders in the slide masters.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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REFERENCES

For additional information about PowerPoint 2001 and animations in the PowerPoint movie format, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

268398 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268398/EN-US/ ) PPT2001: Incorrect Slide Transition Effects Appear in Movie Presentation

271108 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271108/EN-US/ ) MacPPT: Placeholder Is Animated When Saved in PowerPoint Movie

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Mac

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This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.

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