Learn how to animate an ungrouped table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. Since tables cannot be part-animated, the solution is to ungroup them and animate.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
Animating table components is something that you cannot do in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. You can either set to animate the entire table at a time, or can't animate it at all. The solution is to first ungroup the table using the workaround explained in our Ungroup a Table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial and then animate the ungrouped components as required. When you ungroup a table the output will be a bunch of rectangles and text boxes, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Table components converted into individual shapes
These table components are not bound to each other, so you can make them to animate in any manner as you wish—row by row, or column by column, or in any other way you want. However, you should be cautious enough to make it sure that the animation is relevant to the data that the table represents. In this tutorial we will show you how to animate this ungrouped table row by row in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. Follow these steps to learn more:
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