Maintaining a shrunken object from slide to slide

[Straitsfan]

This one is driving me absolutely crazy as well --



I have a series of objects that I want to shrink, one after the other, in my presentation. It begins with a group of objects that fade in, one after the other, and then when that completes, that group is shrunk to a smaller size. Another group of objects then fades in, serially, below it, and when they are done, that group is shrunk, as well as the preceding group of objects even more. A third group of objects then fades in, like the first two, and is shrunk.

The problem is that when they are shrunk, they go off center, and what's even worse, on the following slide, the previously shrunken group is back to normal size. How the heck am I able to maintain the smaller size of the objects? I tried making them one group on the following slide, but that doesn't help. There has got to be a way to do this. Can somone help?

My god, this is so much easier in keynote. I HATE WINDOWS!!!!!