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Use the Timing panel

Use the Timing panel - InDesign Tutorial

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Use the Timing panel

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- [Instructor] InDesign's animations, by default, will play on page load in the order in which they were created. Now that might be what you want, but if it's not, you can use the timing panel to exert some control over the order and timing of animations. Let's see how it works. In our exercise file, we have a page that could be used in a presentation and it's a list of the eight reasons it's great to study at the Roux Academy, and I'd like to animate this list so the reasons appear one at a time in sequence. For that, they need to be separate objects, which is why I have eight separate text frames here instead of just one. So I'll select all the frames with my selection tool, and I'll go to the animation panel and apply the preset fade in, and now I'll preview the page by clicking the button at the bottom of the animation panel, press play to play the preview, and they come in one by one, but there's a couple problems here. State-of-the-Art Facilities and Word-Class Teaching come in…

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