Re: Simple business animation software

["Rob Hudson" <caveatrob -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Is there a good source of information on creating animations with
PowerPoint? The stuff I was trying to do in the past involved showing
trucks picking up goods and moving from one building to another. No
matter what I did, the truck would always leave its payload at the
original building :)

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Leonard C. Porrello
<Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> We've even done dynamic GUI simulations using PowerPoint.
>
> Leonard
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> Dunno... if you explore PowerPoint's full capabilities and really think
> creatively, I believe there is little you cannot do in the application.
> I
> drove full-day seminars for seven years using a LOT of animation, etc.,
> and
> this was with prior versions that had significantly less functionality.
> My
> recommendation, then, is that you have a closer look.
>
> The Capivate recommendation is also a good one, however.
>
> Jagdriver
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Rob Hudson <caveatrob -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking for something simple to make really basic business process
>> animations. I've tried PowerPoint, but it seems a little limited.
>> Flash seems like overkill, but might be necessary. An example of
>> something I might animate is data flows leaving one process and
>> entering another.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
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