Animated text grows or shrinks suddenly or unevenly in a PowerPoint Web presentation

When you view a Web page preview in PowerPoint, or view a Web presentation in a Web browser, animated text that grows or shrinks does not change smoothly from the original size to the final size. The text size changes suddenly and unevenly.

This behavior is a limitation of how text is displayed in a Web browser. The animation is created by changing the text size in the steps allowed by HTML instead of smoothly changing the size.

To work around this problem, convert the text to a graphic. A growing or shrinking graphic changes in steps in a Web presentation, but the steps may be smaller and less noticeable than with text, depending on the size of the text and how much the text grows or shrinks. To convert the text to a graphic, follow these steps, and then test the animation:

PowerPoint 2007

1. Start PowerPoint 2007.
2. On the Microsoft Office Button, click Open.
3. In the Open dialog box, locate the presentation, and then click Open.
4. Highlight the animated text, right-click the highlighted animated text, and then click Cut.
5. On the Home menu, click Paste from the Clipboard group, and then click Paste Special.
6. In the Paste Special dialog box, select Choose Picture (Enhanced Metafile) under Paste As, and then click OK.
7. Under the Animations group, click Custom Animation on the Animations menu.
8. In the Custom Animation window, click Add Effect, click Emphasis, and then click Grow/Shrink.
9. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.
10. In the PowerPoint Options window, click the Advanced option. Then, click Web Options under General under Advanced options for working with PowerPoint.
11. In the Web Options window, click to select the Show slide animation while browsing check box on the General tab, and then click OK two times.
12. Click the Microsoft Office Button, click Save As, and then click Other Formats.
13. In the Save As dialog box, select Web Page in the Save as Type drop-down list, and then click Publish two times.
14. Click the center of the presentation in the Web browser.
15. If the animation of the graphic looks smoother than the animation of the text, save the presentation. Or, if the animation of the graphic looks less smooth than the animation of the text, close the presentation without saving the changes.

PowerPoint 2002/ PowerPoint 2003

1. Start PowerPoint, and then open the presentation.
2. Right-click the animated text, and then click Save as Picture.
3. In the Save as type box, click Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf). Click Save.
4. Click the text, right-click the frame around the text, and then click Cut.
5. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
6. Click the picture that you saved in step 3, and then click Insert.
7. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
8. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Emphasis, and then click Grow/Shrink.
9. On the Tools menu, click Options.
10. On the General tab, click Web Options. Click to select the Show slide animation while browsing check box on the General tab of Web Options dialog box.
11. Click OK twice.
12. On the File menu, click Web Page Preview.
13. Click the center of the presentation in the Web browser.
14. If the animation of the graphic looks smoother than the animation of the text, save the presentation.
    -OR-
    If the animation of the graphic looks less smooth than the animation of the text, close the presentation without saving the changes.

For more information on other differences between a PowerPoint presentation and a presentation viewed as a web page, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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