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WildDoktor - 21 Feb 2007 19:02 GMT

1.    The enemy of trust is doubt.

Hi! My question pertains to sentences like the above. In a conference type
setting, I'd like to put that question up on the screen, but hide the words
"trust" and "doubt" until the audience has discussed it...then I'd like to
unhide each word seperately, but in order.

So, the sequence would be something like this:

1.    The enemy of _____ is _____.
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1.    The enemy of trust is _____.
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1.    The enemy of trust is doubt.

Does that make sense?

And of course, after point 1. comes point 2, with another series of hidden
words.

Can anybody help me with this?

Thank you so much!

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David M. Marcovitz - 21 Feb 2007 19:26 GMT

I think the easiest thing would be to put a box over the words, and then
use custom animation to have the boxes exit one at a time.

An alternative would be to do it on separate slides. Have the sentence
without the words on one slide and the next slide is identical with one
word filled in and the next slide is identical but with both words filled
in.

One more alternative is to combine one and two and have the blank spaces
and have the words animate in in their own text boxes.

--David

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Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
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John Wilson - 21 Feb 2007 20:45 GMT

Place a box over the words and in format autoshape set the fill to background
and line to none.

To animate them at the correct time see the "bullets and pictures" entry in
http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk which you will need to addapt to exits rather
that entrances

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WildDoktor - 22 Feb 2007 18:41 GMT

Thanks for both your replies! Both of your replies got me thinking. I tried
the box thing, but it was a bit cumbersome; I ended up doing it a different
way, but using techniques you both suggested! Here's how I did it:

I've got, say, 5 sentences (with the answers) in a text box. I select the
text box, and animate it "at the 1st Paragraph level". I then make a
duplicate of that box. In the duplicate box, I highlight the "answers" and
set their fill to "none"...effectivly blanking them out.

Then I place the box with the "blank" answers directly over the top of the
box with the answers. I re-arrange the animation sequence so that the
sentence with the "blanks" shows first, then the sentence with the answers.

It works, and I could have added a third text box (and fourth) so that I
could animate the "answers" one at a time, but I didn't need that amount of
detail.

So thanks for your help...consider this one closed!

Bill
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