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I can create animations just fine, but the animation painter remains grayed out. I've not been able to use this feature. Can you tell me why and/or how to turn it on? Thanks. Windows 7. PowerPoint 2010 office edition.
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
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Do you have an animated shape selected?
I take that back. Indeed, an "animated" object was not selected. Thank you for your insightful -- and obvious now to me -- help.
Yes, I do. I'm pretty fluent with PowerPoint, but have always been frustrated that this key feature doesn't work.