How-to article Do you want to engage students by making a time line, a list of credits, or other lists come to life in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 presentation? Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 to make time lines, lists of sources, credits, or other lists crawl or scroll from the bottom of the screen off the top of the slide. On This PageLesson information|
Instructional level | | • | Intermediate user | | • | Advanced user |
| School level | | • | Elementary school (Grade 3 and up) | | • | Middle school (11-15 years) | | • | High school (14–18 years) |
| Curriculum areas | | • | Science | | • | History | | • | Language arts |
| Software required | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 |
ObjectiveMake a time line, a list of sources, credits, or other lists come to life in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 presentation. In addition to creating a list of crawling credits at the end of a PowerPoint presentation, students can use this feature to create a scrolling time line. Take a famous inventor—for example, Thomas Edison—and list, by year, his most notable inventions to give viewers an idea of the wealth of his ideas. You can also use scrolling time lines for a prolific playwright or author, or for a list of key dates in history. Have a list of names, events, or dates crawl or scroll from the bottom of the screen off the top of the slide. Here's how: Create movie-style crawling credits in PowerPoint presentations 1. | In a PowerPoint presentation, create a new slide for credits or any other list that you want to scroll from bottom to top. | 2. | Type your credits or other text. Don't worry about text running off the bottom of the slide. In fact, it should run off the bottom if you are going to have enough text to make a crawl effect work well. | 3. | Right-click the text, and on the shortcut menu, click Custom Animation. | 4. | Select the text that you want to scroll. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect. Point to Entrance, and click Credits. | 5. | Click Play to see how the effect will look on-screen. | 6. | Move the text block completely off the top of the slide. When you play your presentation, the text will crawl or scroll from the bottom of the screen and disappear off the top. |
Tip: If you prefer to have your text disappear somewhere below the top of the slide, draw a rectangle that extends from the top of the slide down to where you want the text to disappear. Give the rectangle no outline and a fill that matches the background. Tip courtesy of Peoria Unified School District, Glendale, Arizona Innovative teaching 
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