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Hi, everyone.
I am not sure how to name my issue so I didn't know how to search for a possible solution. I apologize in advance if it was answered.
I am looking for a way to turn off not the content animation or slide transition, but the window/ slide focus animation. It's when I am editing a slide, and the view makes it bounce around slightly as I click and release mouse.
I have no idea what the purpose of that is, but it's distracting and I'd like my slides to stand still while I edit them. :D The bouncing is unnoticeable if the slide is in full view, but it intensifies if there are other panes and sidebars open.
Thanks in advance.
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Voted. Thanks. Hope it helps.
Yes, that's the same phenomenon that I see. It's annoying when you can see the whole slide and infuriating when you're zoomed in on a large object. There is no known way of turning this off. Here's a PowerPoint User Voice suggestion requesting a way to turn this off. I've voted for it, please add your vote.
John, you were right. There is an animated object too close to the slide edge and the animation order label is outside the edge so the program displays it, but still auto-centers while I am editing it causing the program to move the slide back and forth.
I found this very distracting because I would paste and move lots of objects around the slide while keeping the screen split between two programs.
Judging by posts about this I found online, there isn't an option to turn it off. I guess the only solution would be not to place objects too near the edge.
The only "bounce" I've noticed is auto-centering when you're editing an object like a chart at high magnification, so the object more than fills the screen. When you edit something near the edge, the program re-centers it and your edit disappears off the screen. I'm not aware of any way to turn this off.
If it's something else, please make a video of your screen, post it online, then post a Share link here so we can see what you are seeing.