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Animation Tutorial

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Animate or make words appear one line at a time

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For detailed instructions about using animation effects, see Animate text or objects.

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Introduction to Animation and Transitions

Introduction to Animations and Transitions in PowerPoint

What are Animations & Transitions?

What are Animations & Transitions in PowerPoint?

Animations control how objects move onto, off of, and around your slides. Transitions control how your presentation moves from one slide to the next.

Adding Animations to objects and text

Adding an Animation to a Text, an Image, a Shape or Other Elements of a Presentation

Effects can make an object appear, disappear, or move. They can change an object's size or color.

Types of Animations

Entrance animations. The icons for this type of animation are colored green. that object selected will enter the slide according to your timing preferences.
Exit animations. The icons for this type of animation are colored red. The object you’ve added this animation to will exit the slide.
Emphasis animations. The icons for this kind of animation are colored yellow. Animation willl emphasize and draw attention to the object selected.
Motion path animations. This type of animation will allow you to move an object from one spot to another. You can specify or draw the path you want the object to take.

Steps to adding animation:

Select the object that you want to animate.
Click the Animations tab.

Select the animation that you want from the list. Some animations may have addition effects options available under the effects option group within the animations tab.

If you want to see which animations are applied to an object, click Animation Pane. You can also rearrange the animations as you see fit

Animation Pane

Use the timing options to set the timing of the animation.
You can choose when you want the animation to start: on click, with previous or after previous. You can also set the duration and even set a delay before the animation begins.

Timing options

starting animations:

On Click: when you click a slide animation will start.
With Previous: Plays an animation at the same time as the previous animation in your sequence.
After Previous: Starts an animation immediately after the previous one happens.
Duration: Lengthens or shortens an effect.
Delay: Adds time before an effect runs.

Add animation to grouped objects

You can add an animation to grouped objects, text, and more.

Press Ctrl and select the objects you want.
Select Format > Group > Group to group the objects together.
Select Animations and choose an animation.

In each tab group you can click on the more options button More button to get more choices to choose from.

Adding transitions to slides

Adding Transitions to Slides

Select the slide you want to add a transition to.
Select the Transitions tab and choose a transition.
Select Effect Options to choose the direction and nature of the transition.
Select Preview to see what the transition looks like.

To remove a transition, select Transitions: None.

You can modify the duration of a transition, modify effect, and even add sound to play during a transition.

Use Duration to set transition speed. A shorter duration means that a slide advances faster, and a larger number makes the slide advance more slowly.

Select the slide that has the transition that you want to modify.
On the Transitions tab, in the Timing group, in the Duration box, type the number of seconds that you want.

The Timing group on the Transitions tab in the PowerPoin 2010 ribbon.

If you want all the slide show's transitions to use the same speed, click Apply to All.

Advance Slide sets the transition timing by specifying how long a slide stays in view before the transition to the next slide begins. If no timing is selected, slides advance when you click the mouse.

Select the slide that you want to set the timing for.
On the Transitions tab, in the Timing group, under Advance Slide, do one of the following:
- To make the slide advance to the next slide when you click the mouse, select the On Mouse Click check box.
- To make the slide advance automatically, select the After check box, and then enter the number of minutes or seconds that you want. The timer starts when the final animation or other effect on the slide finishes.
- To enable both the mouse and automatic advance, select both the On Mouse Click check box and the After check box. Then, at After, enter the number of minutes or seconds that you want. The slide will advance automatically, but you can advance it more quickly by clicking the mouse.

Tip: If you want all the slides to advance using the same speed, click Apply to All.

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Animation and Transitions in PowerPoint

Step by step tutorials on using animations and transitions effectively in PowerPoint. Author: Geetesh Bajaj