Is it possible to make text appear and disappear in a specific area of the slide (like credits from a movie?)
Well yes it is, see the video below for an example.
To make this happen follow the next steps.
Choose the Blank slide layout.
First we will define the area where the text should scroll.
Draw a rectangle covering the whole surface of the slide.
Right-click it and choose Format Shape, select the radio button Slide background fill and under Line click on No line.
Now draw a second rectangle on top of the first one. This rectangle will determine the space where the text will appear and disappear.
Give this rectangle the same format als the first one.
To simplify drawing you can add two guidelines equidistant from the center of the slide. Press Alt+F9 to make the guide lines appear, and drag two lines while holding down the Ctrl key. In the video, I placed two lines 4 cm from the center.
Now select both rectangles, click the Format Shape tab and in the Insert Shapes group select Merge Shapes and then Combine. A gap has been created in the larger rectangle allowing the text to scroll.
Apply the Title only layout to your slide using the Slide Layout button on the Home tab. Then adjust the width of the placeholder by dragging one of the handles using the Ctrl key so that it covers the full width of the slide. Type your text and format it the way you want.
To let the text scroll you have two options either you create one text box and let the paragraphs scroll one by one. Or you create the necessary individual boxes for each item. In the video I have chosen the latter.
So create the text boxes (five in my example) and position them on top of each other. Click Format shape tab, Align button, select Align top. Move the text boxes to just below the gap we made earlier. Then put them in the background using the Send backward button and the Send to back option.
Leave the boxes selected and apply a motion path to them. Click the Animation tab, Add animation button, under Motion paths select the Line button. In the ribbon click the Effect options button and choose Up.
Now we need to adjust the motion path of each text box. Press Alt+F10 to activate the selection pane. Click the Hide all button. Click the icon next to the first text box to make it appear and adjust the path by selecting it and dragging the red end point to just above the visible slide.
Click on the Show all button.
Select all the animations in the animation selection pane and next to Begin choose With previous. Next to Duration klik in the box, type the number of seconds and press enter (in the video I chose 15 seconds). Select the first animation and reinstate After click.
This is the result:
To make the animations appear one after the other we will have to apply a delay. To make that easy right-click any animation and choose Show Advanced Timeline.
Drag the animation boxes to the right making sure that every item starts a few seconds after the previous. In the video I put a delay of 4 seconds.
