Animating Slides
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Animation

You can use animation to enhance your presentation. Animation:

• Draws attention to certain points.
• Helps hold your audiences attention.
• Spices up your presentation.

PowerPoint provides quite a few different animation effects

To animate one of you objects (text, picture, chart, or movie), click on it once (to select it) and then choose Custom Animation from the Tools menu:

You can also open the Custom Animation Dialog by right clicking on the object and then choosing Custom Animation.

The Custom Animation dialog looks like:

Note the OK and Cancel buttons on the right-hand side. Clicking on the OK button saves any changes that your made and clicking on the Cancel button abandons any changes that you've made. Also, there is a Preview button. Clicking on the Preview button show what the animation effect 

The Effects Tab

Here, the Effects tab is currently being displayed. You select the type of animation and sound  that you want. There are about 40 types of animation and 16 different sounds to choose from. (The actual number of animation effects and sounds varies widely depending of the version of PowerPoint and how it was installed. Also, you can select how the object will be introduced and what happens afterwards.

On the left side of the tab, you specify what type of animation that you want. In the example above, Wipe Down is selected. Below it, the sound to be played is shown. Here it is set to Typewriter. 

After Animation lets you pick what should happen after the animation is done. Your choices are:

• Pick a color. This changes the object to the selected color for a few seconds after the animation is completed.
• Don't Dim. The item being animated is displayed normally after the animation is completed.
• Hide After Animation. The object disappears after the animation is completed.
• Hide on Next Mouse Click. The object will disappear then the mouse button is pressed. This can be handy when pointing out details on a picture of diagram.
  

The Timing Tab

The Timing tab controls what items will have animation, the order of items to be animated, and the length of the animation:

In the upper left box, you select the order that the items will be displayed. Click on the item that you want to move and then click on the up or down arrow to move it. Notice that when you click on an item, The actual item is highlighted in the miniature slide view to the right.

A list of the objects without animation is displayed in the lower left. (In the above example, both object on the page have animation.) To add animation to one of the items in the list, click on the item and then click on the Animate button to the right. Conversely, you can turn off the animation of an object by selecting it in the upper left box and then clicking on the Don't Animate button.

The Start Animation buttons controls whether an item is animated and if is, how the animation should proceed. There are two choices:

• On Mouse Click. The animation will start the next time you click the mouse. You can use this to add bulleted points one at a time as you discuss them. This often keeps your audience more focus on the current point.
• Automatically, x seconds after previous event. This option displays the object the number of seconds set. It defaults to zero, so the object is displayed immediately after the last item's animation is completed. Examples of when to use this option are:
  • To display other items after an animation sequence. Let's say that you want the title of a slide to be animated and would like the body of the text to appear 2 seconds after the animation is completed. 
  • To make fully automated slide shows that require no intervention.
    

The Chart Effects

The Chart Effects tab gives you control of when each element of a chart is displayed. It's useful when you want to talk about what each element represents.

 Play Settings Tabs

 

Click here to view a slide show showing animation effects

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