Animate Slide Objects: Fake-Animate Tables in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, April 14, 2020, posted by Geetesh at 10:51 am

Updated: Monday, November 8, 2021 at 4:29 pm

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In PowerPoint, animating table components is not possible unless you ungroup the table. Once your table is ungrouped, you can animate the ungrouped table components as you wish. However, for those of you who don’t want to ungroup your table, there is another workaround where you don’t actually apply any animation to the table components, but when you play the slide containing the table, it looks like your table components are animating!

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Fake Animate Tables in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Fake Animate Tables in PowerPoint 2011

Fake Animate Tables in PowerPoint

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