This seems like it'd be simple and routine, but I can't find any simple way to do it.
Suppose I have a slide with the following animating shapes:
- Shape A starts at size 100×100, at position A:B, and then resizes to size 50×50 while moving to position C:D
- Shape B starts at size 100×100, at position E:F, and then resizes to size 200×200 while moving to position G:H
This is part of a simple "focusing on part of a diagram" effect. On click, I want these animations to reverse, to go back to the wide view of the diagram:
- Shape A should slide back to being size 100×100 at position A:B
- Shape B should slide back to being size 100×100 at position G:H
I can't find any way to do this remotely accurately. Best seems to be adding an animation from the start positions (for example, for shape A, doubling to size 200×200 and moving to A-(C-A):B-(D-B), trusting that this will land in more or less the right position – but instead of starting from C:D, it jumps back to A:B. I can't even find a way to input the numbers for the move, so even if I could get it to start at C:D, I'd be relying on trial and error dragging the path into a guessed position.
I've seen some suggestions to create a second slide, that starts in the new positions, and create new animations going back to the old states, but I can't even find any way to create a slide based on an animation's end points.
How can I do this? Powerpoint 2016 if that's relevant.
Best Answer
Figured it out: