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I have recently completed one example which you can download right now.  This is just a bit of fun and more of a technology demonstration than an example of how a presentation should be constructed!  (The latter is in preparation and will follow in a while.)

PowerPoint 2003 (XP) undoubtedly marks the biggest leap forward in new features of any new release of the software.  With facilities such as smooth fades, multiple custom paths for each object and a fully editable timeline (definable down to 1/10th second), this brings exciting new opportunities for exciting event and meeting openers and animated segments.  The possibility of doing away with expensive video sequences becomes almost a certainty.

As I have said elsewhere, although the software has these features it does not mean you have to use them all!

If you have a point to put across, often "less is more".  However, there is a place for such facilities and to give you a fun taste of what is possible with PowerPoint 2003, you can download Download This File.

Right click the link above and choose "Save Target As..." to save it to your hard drive.  It is a zipped folder so just unzip it to your desktop or anywhere else that's easy for you to find, open it and double-click the file play.bat.

This short single-slide demonstration shows custom paths (pictures below) and actions synchronised to sound, on a timeline.  (See the timeline pictured above and described to the the right.)  There are only two custom graphics in the demonstration, you'll spot them immediately.  Everything else is PowerPoint 2003.

This also serves to show what a huge difference the appropriate music and effects track makes.  Imagine it without the synchronised sound!  I speak about music, HERE.

The file includes the PowerPoint Viewer for PowerPoint 2003 (which, by the way, is the only reason it comes to 2.4Mb - without the viewer it would be well under 300kb)  so even if you don't have the software, you should be able to run this demonstration if you have Windows 98 or more recent.  You will however probably need a processor running at around 1Ghz or faster.

When you've seen it, you can try fitting the individual steps in the timeline (above) to what you see happening on the screen.  The Timeline above covers every action in the 40 seconds.

I hope you enjoy it!  Let me know!

Steve Bell

The Timeline

Lines downwards:

  1. Fade in the bomb

  2. Fade in the fuse

  3. Wait 1 second, then start the audio track

  4. Bring in the "fizzing" animated gif at the start point

  5. Bring in one the letters - hidden behind the bomb

  6. and another

  7. and another

  8. and another

  9. Move the "fizz" along a custom path matching the shape of the fuse

  10. Slowly wipe the 'burnt fuse' left to right at the same speed as the fizz gif moves

  11. Explosion starts, so lose the fizz gif - swirl it away fast

  12. Lose the bomb fast

  13. Bring in the last of the five letters (For tidiness, I should have moved that action up to line 8 but it makes no actual difference)

  14. 'Explode' a letter from behind the bomb down its custom path

  15. and another

  16. and another

  17. and another

  18. and another

  19. Fade out the fuse

  20. Fade out the burnt fuse

  21. Wait a couple of seconds for the audio track to end then swirl away the first letter

  22. Then the next (at a different start point, speed and timing)

  23. and the next (ditto)

  24. and the next (ditto)

  25. and the last one! (ditto)

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