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ShabM
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January 24, 2023
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InDesign Interactive Presentations - How to add animated bullets to apprear one at a time

  • 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
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2023

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_SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 24, 2023

    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
    January 26, 2023

    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
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    January 26, 2023

    Way back in the day, I did a lot of Powerpoint presentations. One of the things I hear over and over again was "There's no way you did that with Powerpoint." I had a show a few people the file to convince them.


    Well, there are those among us who can do master class work with MS Paint and an old roller mouse. 🙂

     

    Good, even exceptional work can be done in almost any tool. But you shouldn't have to push the rock all the way up the hill on every step to get there.

     

    Peter Kahrel
    Community Expert
    Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 24, 2023

    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.

     

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      ShabMAuthor
      Participant
      January 24, 2023

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

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