Powerpoint: animation to build a table, one row at a time

Question

I've got a slide in PowerPoint 2007 containing a table with several rows.

I'd like to build this slide one row at a time (so that the audience doesn't see each row until I'm ready to talk about it).

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this... whenever I try to create any kind of animation, the animation applies to the whole table. I'd like it to apply one row at a time.

Answer 1

I would start with the final slide and work my way backward.

Create your finished table on a slide and then copy that slide and paste it before your finished table slide.

Delete a row from the table, and then copy that slide and paste it before the current one, etc.

As you go forward it looks somewhat animated (no flashy effects though) as you add one row at a time

Answer 2

This article over at office.microsoft.com looks like it should achieve what you want, albeit via a slightly hacky method! (Copy and Paste special the table, in order to ungroup the table cells and animate them individually).