Green hand question : How do I add state to groups?
Mar 04, 2015
By
JoJo Cheng
Hello, I have met this question:
I drew many shapes and made them in 2 to 3 groups (forming a whole picture), then I wanted to add mouse hover effect to them as a whole... later I found couldn't be able to add a 'state' to a group, then I tried to ungroup them, the problem is, if I ungroup them, I will get too many shapes, and adding state to them one by one will be huge project!
And then I tried another way, choose one shape, into its state and copy all other elements into it, it works a little bit (at least they appear in state), but they didn't come in the same place they should be in the timeline... I will have to do alignments again, also a huge project...
Could you give me some advices, how can I deal with it?
5 Replies
Hi Jojo
Try right click the group 'save as picture' then insert the picture on the slide. You can add States to the picture.
Hello Jojo,
Welcome to the community. Wendys suggestions should work. Just use the right click to save the grouped objects as one image.
Thank you Wendy and Emily~~
Hello again,
I tried but the problem is that, when I saved to png, the details of the image has slightly changed (including scale and many other details like the size of font), How can I solve that?
Hi Jojo
found this tip on a ppt website - it talks about making the text box an image before you group the objects together
1. Click on the text box and copy the text box (Ctrl + C).
2. Paste Special the text box (Ctrl + Alt + V). When you use Paste Special, you will have different paste options. You will want to paste the text as a PNG image.
3. Once you’ve pasted the text, delete the text box and reposition the PNG image in the same position.
4. Text as a PNG image enables resizing
5. You’ll want to group (Ctrl + G) the PNG image with the other object(s) and then resize the grouped object while holding down the Shift key so you maintain the proportion of the object.
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