There are plenty of discussions about animating bullet points, where successive bullet points become visible as the timeline progresses. What I am looking for is a way to give the user control over the bullet points, where the user can click on a slide to go to each successive bullet point. Is that possible?
Where on a slide would a user click to reveal bullet points? On a custom Next button? Maybe you can share a sample slide layout to illustrates what you are trying to do.
My slide layout is just experimental until I get this figured out. The slide I'm working with just has three bullet points on it. That's it. Ideally, I would like for the user to be able to click on the first bullet point to reveal the second bullet, and so on. A "next" button would also work, but I can't see how to get either of those mechanisms to work.
Brian's suggestion is one of many options. You could also create shapes that initially cover the bullet points and then add transparent shapes with triggers that animate these cover shapes with motion path animations. Or you could use cue points to pause/continue the slide's timeline based on clicks.
That would work. The complication is that my bullets reside inside a scrolling panel. If I put a layer on the slide, that layer doesn't scroll with the scrolling panel. (Unless I'm missing something.)
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Where on a slide would a user click to reveal bullet points? On a custom Next button? Maybe you can share a sample slide layout to illustrates what you are trying to do.
My slide layout is just experimental until I get this figured out. The slide I'm working with just has three bullet points on it. That's it. Ideally, I would like for the user to be able to click on the first bullet point to reveal the second bullet, and so on. A "next" button would also work, but I can't see how to get either of those mechanisms to work.
I most commonly achieve an effect like this by placing the bullets that need to be revealed on separate slide layers.
Make your first bullet clickable, with a trigger to show bullet 2 layer, etc. etc.
Brian's suggestion is one of many options. You could also create shapes that initially cover the bullet points and then add transparent shapes with triggers that animate these cover shapes with motion path animations. Or you could use cue points to pause/continue the slide's timeline based on clicks.
That would work. The complication is that my bullets reside inside a scrolling panel. If I put a layer on the slide, that layer doesn't scroll with the scrolling panel. (Unless I'm missing something.)
These are good ideas. I'll run with them and see what happens. Thanks!
Michael, nice slight of hand covering the bullets with shapes, then animating them out.
Pausing/continuing the timeline using cue points and triggers is by far the most elegant solution, I like it!
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