Grow/Shrink animation problem -- help!

Question

Hi, I'm fairly new in PPT.  I'm creating a presentation that features a series of simple picture inserts on a simple graphic background throughout. Not very interesting, I know.....so to give it a bit of interest, I thought I might have the picture grow very slowly as it sits there on the slide, sort of as if it was floating.  It's a trick I use all the time for video, to make things look not quite so static when the client just wants something simple to hang on the screen for a few seconds.  I have heard the "don't use too much distracting animation" warning over and over in tutorials, but believe me, this would be barely noticeable movement, and the client approved the idea already. 

Anyway, I used Grow/Shrink -- large....which is fine, but the growth is SO fast, and the picture ends up huge!  So, I tried to adjust by doing two things: I made the picture start out smaller by reducing its overall size, and I made the duration of the animation 10 seconds long. That slowed it down admirably, but by the end of that ten seconds, the thing is just as huge as before I adjusted it.

In a perfect world, I envision the slide only being up for about 4 seconds before it automatically goes to the next slide, or the presenter clicks.  Under Transition/Advance slide I entered 4 seconds, and checked both the 'On Click' and the 'After' boxes.  However, when I go to test the whole thing, the slide will NOT automatically advance unless the animation is done -- at 10 seconds.  And if I click to advance, it jumps to the end frame of the animation -- where the picture is enormous -- and then pauses a beat before automatically going to the next slide.

So my questions are: 1.can't I set a percentage or something for the growth rate of the picture?  I can't imagine that every time someone uses this effect, they *must* accept that it zooms forward or backward that fast.  2. Does the animation length that I set really override the command that the slide advance after 4 seconds?

If I can find  way to make the picture grow at a slower pace for 4 seconds instead of 10, then I wouldn't really need to solve the second problem, because in that case the slide would just go on to the next after 4 seconds automatically -- although I would still love to know why if someone clicks in the middle of an animation, the slide jumps to the last frame of the animation before advancing -- that just seems wrong.

I'd appreciate any help....thanks in advance!

Answer 1

UPDATE: Soon after I posted this, I found my answer to problem #1 by accident...so now I can have a slow zoom in of my pictures over the course of 4 seconds and have the slide automatically advance to the next.  But I still have the general question about clicking during an animation -- I tested this and it still jumps to the last frame of the animation instead of going to the next slide. Can anyone explain this to me and/or guide me through the process of changing that?  Thanks!

Answer 2

Glad to know that your issue has been resolved