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In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you create a slide that has a bulleted list that contains six or more levels of nested bullets. When you do this, you cannot use Effect Options under Custom Animation to animate the bullets that are nested by six levels or more.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, expand the Timeline element for the bulleted list, and then animate each nested bullet individually. To do this, follow these steps:

1.	Click the text box or the body text box that contains the bulleted list that you want to animate.
2.	On the Animation tab, click Custom Animation in the Animations group.
3.	Click Add Effect, and then select the animation style that you want to use.
4.	Set the Start, Direction, and Speed settings.
5.	Expand the custom animation Timeline element.
6.	On the first second-level bullet, right-click the element, and then click one of the following: Start On Click Start With Previous Start After Previous Note Repeat step 6 for each nested bullet that you want to animate separately from the other bullets in the list.
7.	Click Play to test the animation. Make any adjustments as needed to the way the bullet points are animated.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the “Applies to” section.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to reproduce the problem

1.	Create a slide that has a bulleted list that has six or more levels of nested bullets.
2.	Click the Animations tab, and then click Custom Animation in the Animations group.
3.	In the Custom Animation task pane, select a custom animation style, and then make any modifications that you want to the custom animation’s Start, Direction, or Speed settings.
4.	Click the down arrow for the custom animation element in the Timeline box, and then click Effect Options.
5.	Click the Text Animation tab in the Effect Options dialog box.Note You cannot set the Group Text setting beyond the By 5th level paragraphs setting. There are no settings for nested bullets after the sixth level.

In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you create a slide that has a bulleted list that contains six or more levels of nested bullets. When you do this, you cannot use Effect Options under Custom Animation to animate the bullets that are nested by six levels or more.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, expand the Timeline element for the bulleted list, and then animate each nested bullet individually. To do this, follow these steps:

1.	Click the text box or the body text box that contains the bulleted list that you want to animate.
2.	On the Animation tab, click Custom Animation in the Animations group.
3.	Click Add Effect, and then select the animation style that you want to use.
4.	Set the Start, Direction, and Speed settings.
5.	Expand the custom animation Timeline element.
6.	On the first second-level bullet, right-click the element, and then click one of the following: Start On Click Start With Previous Start After Previous Note Repeat step 6 for each nested bullet that you want to animate separately from the other bullets in the list.
7.	Click Play to test the animation. Make any adjustments as needed to the way the bullet points are animated.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the “Applies to” section.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to reproduce the problem

1.	Create a slide that has a bulleted list that has six or more levels of nested bullets.
2.	Click the Animations tab, and then click Custom Animation in the Animations group.
3.	In the Custom Animation task pane, select a custom animation style, and then make any modifications that you want to the custom animation’s Start, Direction, or Speed settings.
4.	Click the down arrow for the custom animation element in the Timeline box, and then click Effect Options.
5.	Click the Text Animation tab in the Effect Options dialog box.Note You cannot set the Group Text setting beyond the By 5th level paragraphs setting. There are no settings for nested bullets after the sixth level.

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