So i have multiple pictures that i am going to stack on top of one another in a power point slide, and want to add animation so that each picture will appear when I click... I am importing the following: use Win32::OLE::Const ('Microsoft PowerPoint'); use Win32::OLE::Const ('Microsoft Office'); Here is a snippet of my code: 
       $picture = $Slide->Shapes->AddPicture({
            FileName => "$picture[$i]",
            LinkToFile => 0,
            SaveWithDocument => 1,
            Left =>370,
            Top => $top,
            Width => 350,
            Height => 350
        });
        
        $picture -> AnimationSettings({
                    EntryEffect => "ppEffectFlyFromLeft"});

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I get all of the pictures added correctly, but I get the following error: Win32::OLE(0.1502) error 0x80020006: "Unknown name" "EntryEffect" in GetIDsOfNames for "AnimationSettings". Am I not importing the right OLE constants? Any help would be great. Is EntryEffect not a valid argument?

Update: I was barking up the wrong tree. Here is how: 

            my $time = $Slide->TimeLine->MainSequence;
            my $effect = $time->AddEffect({
                Shape => $picture,
                effectId => msoAnimEffectZoom,
                });

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~~David~~

In reply to Adding Animation Settings To PowerPoint Object by ~~David~~

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