Melkal,
That's one of the limitations that has been overcome with PowerPoint 2007.
There you can name the objects on a slide anyway you want and you can hide
or show them at leisure (Select and visibility task pane). Which makes it
easy to select and animate.

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Luc Sanders
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>I am using Powerpoint 2003 to create training packages for the software the
> company I work for develops. We have slides with many images & custom
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> increase our slide numbers. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks in
> advance.
melkal - 25 Oct 2007 08:43 GMT
Thanks, that helps me a lot. Now I have a very good reason to upgrade
> Melkal,
> That's one of the limitations that has been overcome with PowerPoint 2007.
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> > increase our slide numbers. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks in
> > advance.