beamer – Given a List of Items in Beamer How to Bold and Unbold Items One at a Time

beameritemize

I want to display the following sentences one at a time in a \begin{item}

However, I want them to bold and unbold one sentence at a time.

For example, I want to display

  • Hello World
  • Hello Earth
  • Hello Sun

The audience should see

  • Hello \textbf{World}

then,

  • Hello World
  • Hello \textbf{Earth}

then,

  • Hello World
  • Hello Earth
  • Hello \textbf{Sun}

and finally,

  • Hello World
  • Hello Earth
  • Hello Sun

Is there a way to achieve this?

Best Answer

I believe this question has been answered here

Shorthand overlay specifications for bold text

But just to give a quick rundown, to get what youre looking for you would have your list written as 

\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
            \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=black} %change the font color
            \setbeamerfont{alerted text}{series=\bfseries} %make alerted text bold
            \item<1-> Hello \alert<+>{World}
            \item<2-> Hello \alert<+>{Earth}
            \item<3-> Hello \alert<+>{Sun}
        \end{itemize}
        \uncover<+>{} %make the list all change to unbolded
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

Make sure to include the empty \uncover command, otherwise the last item will remain bolded.

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If instead you wanted the entire line to be bolded, you could instead do it as

\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}    
        \begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
            \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=black} %change the font color
            \setbeamerfont{alerted text}{series=\bfseries} %make alerted text bold
            \item Hello World
            \item Hello Earth
            \item Hello Sun
        \end{itemize}
        \uncover<+>{} %make the list all change to unbolded
    \end{frame}
\end{document}
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