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PowerPoint 2013 Animations with VBA

Please see sample .ppt file attached.

What I am trying to achieve: On slide 1 I have several shapes. If you run the slideshow you will see that OnClick shapes will appear from Left to Right. Other shapes starting at the same X-axis position will appear WithPrevious. (slide 1 is a demo. The actual slide is as shown in slide 2)

On slide 2 I have the same shapes. I want to be able to programmatically add the OnClick and WithPrevious animations to the shapes on a slide (as described above).

Note that the shape names are not necessarily in sequential order going from Left to Right.

This may help. I will have an array that has the data from which the shapes are created. eg.
X-position of left edge | ShapeName | ColorID |

Note: ColorID is one of 4 possible. So call it 1 to 4 (say)
The data in the array will be in the ascending 'X-position of left edge' sequence

Thanks!
Shapes-animation-1.pptx

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John Wilson

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hindersaliva

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Ha ha JSRW! You are a genius on PPT VBA! It does exactly as I want. I shall study the code and adapt.

(They are not the only shapes but I can name them when they are created, so that I can select them by some prefix)

Thanks. Shall close this question. There'll be another in a few days when I come to take this to the next step.

John Wilson

You may be able to add then to the array without selecting them. This would be a good move.

hindersaliva

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Yes I will. Thanks.