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InDesign Interactive Presentations - How to add animated bullets to apprear one at a time

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January 24, 2023
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Hi all!

Does anyone know how to set up an interactive presentation in InDesign so that your bullet points appear one at a time (whenever you click on the page a new bullet point appears) similar to the effects in Powerpoint?

I can only get 2 bullet points to work. I set my first bullet point to appear on "page load". I set each of the other bullet points to appear "on page click" but when I click on the page then all of my other bullet points appear at the same time.

Appreciate any help I can get...thanks!

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

THis thing with appearing buletts will not work.

But you can duplicate pages, and increase page by page the bullets, an mark the important one with a character style.

The audience will not see a differece.

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Jeffrey_Smith

Community Expert

A limitation to Indesign animation is: even though you can have multiple elements animate (at once or sequentially), there is only one action that will trigger all animations.

How are you presenting: PDF or Publish Online? Are you driving this presentation or self-guided? For a single page, click and each bullet animates presentation, I have a Publish Online (and that you present) workaround, and can share if you are interested.

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ShabMAuthor

Participant

Hi Jeffery,

It will be a PDF however I did notice that there are many animated features that are not supported by Interactive PDF, so if needed I could switch it to Publish Online.

I'm designing it for a client and I believe it will be a self-guided presentation but could potentially be either or both.

I would love to hear more about your workaround.

Thanks!

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Agreed. And one more unpopular notion may be that in my opinion animated bullets are a scourge on Earth and should be avoided while presenting. Research seems to back this up: avoid the dreaded "Oh NO! Not another bullet slide! NOOOOO!" response from your audience.

And brains shut down.

Just not a great method to present information to a crowd. One of the worst, actually.

https://www.brightcarbon.com/blog/bullet-points-dont-belong-presentation/

https://www.brightcarbon.com/blog/i-have-to-use-bullets-my-slides-are-too-technical/

Well, we just had this argument and while I am 100% of the opinion that there are far too many "presentations" and most of them are bad in some way, my loathing of PowerPoint is completely because of its crap, amateur-level fingerpainting creation model. It's an abysmal tool regardless of the purpose or productions. And MS just keeps giving it more tinsel and glitter rather than adding decent 'structural' features... but then, all MS has done with Office for fifteen years is take it to the cloud and add tinsel and glitter.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

The way I do that for presentations is to add one bullet on a page. Then add a page and repeat bullet 1 and add the second. Then add another page, repeat bullets 1 and 2 and add bullet 3. Etc. etc.

Then in presentation mode (or export to PDF and run it in presentation mode) you press page down and it looks as if you stay on the page and have animated bullets.

InDesign is a far better presentation creator than PowerPoint.

P.

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ShabMAuthor

Participant

Thank you for your suggestion, Peter. I will give that a try.

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