Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

Kristin Beck — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:16:36 GMT

**UPDATE: We have changed *step 29 to reflect the correct instructions. Thanks again.

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

Kristin Beck — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:29:19 GMT

mzle22 -- Thanks for that catch. I must have been blinded by the lunar eclipse. On *step 29 (not *28), it should refer to the 4th, 5th, and 6th animations.

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

mzle22 — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:02:40 GMT

I am so sorry but you lost me at *step 28. There are 6 groups of animations. Where did the seventh come from? What exactly are you referring to?

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

yiwu — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:50:20 GMT

This was a pretty simple animation scheme, great ！

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

Erik Jensen — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:57:12 GMT

Hi Derek,

This was a pretty simple animation scheme, you're right. We wanted to provide something that was easy to put together on fairly short notice (since this post came out on 12/20, and the solstice was the next day), and that customers with varying levels of expertise could use, without having to go through too many steps to get their message out.

For some really cool, free templates - animated and otherwise - we have over 120 posted at office2010.microsoft.com/.../CT010336615.aspx. Download one, and use it right away, or note the reproduction steps in each templates Notes pane in PowerPoint. These templates were designed by ace designer and PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg.

You can find out more and even see a cool video that uses the templates here: blogs.office.com/.../watch-ppt157-everything-in-this-video-is-a-powerpoint-template.aspx.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

-Erik

re: Holiday cheer goes lunar: Make your own animated winter solstice e-card

derek — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:32:32 GMT

Seriously??? You call that Animated? That was weak. No animation, other than some twinkling stars and a scrolling text box.