Complex Build-ins in Keynote

[KenDRhyD]

Recently a friend passed to me a complex presentation developed in PowertPoint for dislay at a year-end banguet for a non-profit youth sports organization. There are a relatively large number of slides, almost all of which have an relatively large number of pictures, most of which are relatively small relative to the overall size of the slie itself, which 'slide' into view at regular intervals as a overlapping collage until the entire slide is built. Often the last picture is the largest and may occupy most of the slide area. The file was provided as a ".PPS" file, which Keynote opened for me, and the slideshow ran, seemigly without flaw, on my MacOS based systems (I also have PowerPoint available as part of MS Office).

My question lies in how I can construct, or deconstruct/edit, these complex builds in Keynote. I have bragged about how supoerior Keynote seemed to be in the creationg of simple and elegant presentations, but how this specific type of slideshow would be created escapes me. When I view each slide in Keynote, all I can see is the final build state, and I can find no reference to the other pictures that build in under that slide, or how to control the order of the build-in.

Help, please!

 

[symphonix]

Simply bring up the inspector, select any given slide, and you can then select each item within that slide to see what its properties are. The third tab of the inspector is the object animation properties.
Of interest to you is the "Order" property which tells you which items come in at what time.

 

[KenDRhyD]

Simply bring up the inspector, select any given slide, and you can then select each item within that slide to see what its properties are. The third tab of the inspector is the object animation properties.
Of interest to you is the "Order" property which tells you which items come in at what time.

Yes, I finally found that, but it is a rather awkward and ugly interface. It does allow me to see the items that already exist, their build order, and the timing and direction from which they come.

What I do not see is a simple manner to permit me to begin to build my own complex pages with smaller images entering the page from specific points. The dialogs I see permit me to control the compass point from which the picture slides in, but not where on that edge it originates or where it stops once it is on the page. Does it mean that if I position the small image on the slide and then specify the direction as "from the top" that it will always come down vertically? This small dialog seems an extremely awkward way of achieving this.