Howard from Rome asked me how he could remove the animation effect that
was hidden into the Microsoft template called "Ribbon.pot".
Since that animation appears automatically on all the slides, it means
that it has been applied directly on the Slide Master.
I suggested Howard to display the Master Slide and select the object
that had been animated (a small bullet). Thereafter, I had him click on
"Slide Show", "Custom Animation" and just remove the
animation from there.
He had tried to remove the animation from the single slides before, but
since this animation had been applied to the Slide Master, he could not
remove it successfully.
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.