It's not quite clear what you are doing but I would double click a motion animation in the animation pane and set the path to "Locked" Then on the slide drag the path to where you want it.

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John

Thanks for the reply. The animation is fairly simply. I have an image of a process flow diagram pasted onto the Power Point page. There is a "PacMan" like object, a Smiley face as the item being animated laid on top of the pasted image. There is a simple animation on the "PacMan" type image, so it moves along the lines of the process flow. These are simple movements of down and to the right. I have done some checks and:

• The animation lines work perfectly if I remove the pasted image
• If I paste image on top of the animation and send it to the back that works too, except I cannot guage where to put the image so the animation lines are in the wrong place !!!
• If I paste the image into the presentation first, then put the animation down and right lines into the presentation, the animation movements are no where near the original lines. (So if there is down arrow on the left hand side of the page, the down move will be on the right side of the page !!! Or if there is a line to the right, the object will be travelling in the opposite direction at a level no where near the arrow.

I have attached a copy of the presentation which may help. Have a play with it and try to reconstruct the 3 above scenarios and you will see what I mean. I am using PP 2010.

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ProcessFlow.pptx (54.1 KB, 10 views)