GIF showing dragging a PowerPoint Motion Path to match the endpoints
Step 6
In the Animation Pane, (Animation tab -> Animation Pane), right click the Motion Path and select Effect Options. Make sure that Smooth Start and Smooth End are both set to 0 seconds. This ensures that the speed of the Motion Path is constant, so when the Motion Path loops round there are no jarring starts and stops.
Lastly in the Effect Options navigate to the Timing phone numbers in chile tab and set Repeat to Until End of Slide. Tweak the Animation Duration as required (this option will change how fast your motion loop goes).
Screenshot of right click options for
And voila! Is it a rollercoaster? Is it a plane? No! It’s a.. looping motion path in PowerPoint!
Ow, my brain! Bit confused? Check out the GIF below which will help explain what we’ve done here. The green image is the first image in the carousel, and the red is the duplicate at the end of the carousel. The motion path moves the grouped images until the last image in the carousel (red) is perfectly positioned above the first (green), at which point the motion path resets, snapping the first image (green) to its initial position and repeating the move.
GIF Showing how the first and last image in the PowerPoint motion path loop overlap
This PowerPoint Motion Path technique can be used in lots of creative ways – check out the video below for a few ideas from the BrightCarbon team!
You can do some really cool things in Microsoft Office with just a few lines of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) – from creating your own custom formula in Excel to correcting branded content in PowerPoint to merging address data for a mail campaign in Word. And sometimes you need to share that VBA solution with colleagues and clients, via the Internet. A change to VBA security that Microsoft rolled out at the end of March 2022 tweaks the process required by Windows users to gain access to this active content.
Why did they make this change?
Prior to this change, if you received a file from the Internet via an email or a website download link, you’d be explicitly asked to Enable Content, assuming you trusted whoever was providing you with the file. That appeared in the message bar below the ribbon when you opened the file, like this:
Security warning pop up. Text reads: Macros have been disabled. There is an enable content button.
Microsoft observed that most users automatically trusted whoever was sending the file and sometimes dubious techniques were used by naughty people trying to trick you into trusting them. It was considered too easy for recipients of malicious content to click that magic Enable Content button and get themselves into hot water.