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  • Mar 27, 2026
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Since PowerPoint 2007, you cannot animate tables without Further notice. With the Trick, you can animate a table in the newer versions anyway, you will learn in this practical tip.

So you animate a table in PowerPoint

To be able to have a table to animate, you need to save it first as an image.
  • You have created your table, click with the right mouse button on the edge of the table and select from the context menu the entry "save As image".
  • Save the image as "Enhanced Windows-metafile (*.emf)“ from.
  • Now you delete your table and replace it with the newly saved graphics.
  • To do this, go to the "Insert" tab and click on "images" to select the graphic.
  • Now click the added image with the right mouse button and choose "Group" > "Ungroup".
  • A security prompt opens. Confirm this with "Yes".
  • To disassemble the graphics permanently into the individual components, click the picture again with the right mouse button and select "Group" > "Ungroup".
  • Now you can have parts of the table group, in order to animate.
  • For a better Overview of the individual parts, navigate to the tab "Start" to the group "drawings". Click on "Arrange" and select "selection pane". Now you can see on the right side of the screen a list of all the objects on the slide.
  • Now select with [shift] and the parts of the table that is to be animated.
  • In the connection, click with the right mouse on an edge of the newly selected objects and select in the context menu, select "grouping" > grouping.
  • Now go to the menu item "Animation" and assign the selected grouping to the desired effect.
  • You can test the Animation of your table with a click on "preview" in the tab "animations".
  • Incidentally, you can create multiple groups in the manner described, and in PowerPoint, to animate.
Animated chart in PowerPoint
In PowerPoint align objects can be read here.

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