I am trying to create an animation (in PowerPoint 2010) where I show one chart with some data, and I do some annotations on the chart itself (to highlight several parts of it). If I want to put many annotations the whole thing becomes messy while editing, because all of them are shown at the same time. So, it is even difficult to select individual annotations.
As an example, I include a picture showing the problem:
As you can see, there are two annotations. On the bottom, both text boxes are perfectly aligned so, it is difficult to individually select them. If, instead of two annotations, there are more than 5 or so, it becomes really difficult to work.
So, I was wondering whether there is any option that hides (while editing) all the objects belonging to the previous and following animation steps. I tried looking for such an option on the animation pane (on the right), but I could not find it.
Best Answer
You may find the Selection Pane to be useful. Go to Home –> Editing –> Select –> Selection Pane… It opens as a panel on the right side of the screen,
so you may need to toggle back and forth between it and the Animation Pane –– AFAIK, you can’t have them both open at once.
Features: