No animations in Preview

Hello and thanks in advance for any help you can offer. I've
added animations to my slides such as hightlights, bullets, and
arrows. When I preview the slide in edit mode they show up
correctly. But, when I preview the presentation - next 5 slides or
all slides - they are missing. Any ideas what's gone wrong? Thanks
again. Bill

I've pieced together a solution from some of the
other threads by folks with similar problems. Each of my slides had
a 3 sec click box. Maybe from my importing Power Point as a
backround or from adding navigation bars. I'm not sure, but when I
changed these click boxes to display for the balance of the slide
my animations then appeared.

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