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Is there an easier way to make text appear on click by paragraph, more like in Powerpoint?
I have slides that a facilitator will deliver, and they are used to powerpoint where the next point can appear on click. To make that in PP, it's a single check box.
My only understanding of how to do this in articulate is a trigger to show/hide each statement or click to pause the timeline (which they would probably forget to do). I don't really see how to sequence them, especially if I want the earlier ones to hide (fade in and out a series of quotations, for example.)
That's a lot more steps than PP. Am I missing something easier?
For that situation, it might be easier to put each piece of text on a separate layer.
- This could be set up like a basic tabs interaction. Or, if the facilitator wants to be able to click anywhere on the slide, cover each layer with a hotspot or transparent shape that has trigger to show the next layer.
- Use the Slide Layer Properties to indicate whether showing a new layer hides other layers.
Here's how I would do it. The secret is in animation options to choose Sequence by paragraph.
Walt's solution is definitely more elegant for when you want to keep all of the options on the slide. I suggested layers for the situations to fade items in and out.
Though, actually, in those cases, you could just put each item on a separate slide. Add transitions to fade between slides. IMHO, it's better to have more slides with less text on them for live presentations.
