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Copying animations

Copying animations - InDesign Tutorial

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Copying animations

- As you start to use InDesign animations in more of your projects, at some point, you're probably gonna wanna copy, or duplicate, your animations, right? Well, I actually wanna show you how that works, because there's currently a behavior in copying animations that I found to be a little, oh, unexpected, and it requires a little bit of working around. Let me show you what I mean. I've opened the Layers panel here and the Timing panels so that you can see them more clearly. I have these three objects, 1 2 3, and they appear on the Layers panel as you would expect. I put the number 1 here first, then number 2, and then number 3, so they're listed from the 1 at the bottom up to 3. I'm gonna animate these now, so I'll hold down the Shift key and select them, and then I'm gonna apply the animation Fade In. Now, I want them to animate starting with number 1. So, as you might expect, the Timing panel is the reverse of the Layers panel: 1, 2, 3. But let me show you what happens when I copy…

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