PowerPoint Animations

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PowerPoint Animations

• Making stuff move....

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Possibilities

• Slide Transitions
• Affects how slides appear
• Animation Schemes
• Preset effects for title and text
• Custom animation
• Make individual items appear/disappear
• Lines of text
• Graphics
• Drawing elements

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Access from Slide Show menu

• Slide Transitions
• Animation Schemes
• Custom animation
• Clicking on any of these choices brings up a task
  pane at right
  

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1 Adding Slide Transitions

• Affect how slide appears
• To add
• Slide Show Menu ? Slide Transitions
• Pane appears at right
• Click effect on pane to preview
• Applies to present slide
• To apply to all, click button
• To see again, click Playor Slide Show

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Removing Slide Transitions

• Watch out!
• Last transition clicked will affect slide
• To remove effects
• Click No Transition(top of effects list)

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Using Slide Transitions

• Dont Overuse!
• All slides
• None or subtle transitions

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Using Slide Transitions

• Dont Overuse!
• All slides
• None or subtle transitions
• Extreme transitions
• Single slides
• Special emphasis
• Changes in subject

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2 Adding Animation Schemes

• Preset text effects
• Effects apply to Title and bulleted groups
• Scheme affects selected slide(s) only
• Click button to apply to all slides
• Effect previews when selected
• To see effect again, click Play

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3 Custom Animation

• Most flexible, detailed option
• Takes most time
• Planning
• Testing
• Use on
• Individual lines of text
• Text boxes
• Pictures
• Drawing objects

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Adding Custom Animation

• Choose from menu Slide Show ? Custom Animation
• Custom animation task pane appears at right
• On your slideSelect what you want to animate
• Line(s) of text or text box
• Picture
• Drawing element

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Selecting animation effects

• With object(s) selected
• Click Add Effect
• Choose the effect to apply
• Effect Previews
• Keep trying
• Last effect applies

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Previewing Custom Animation

• To check effect
• Click Play or Slide Show at bottom of task pane
• Effect Previews again

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Removing Custom Animation

• Select animated element
• On Custom Animation PaneClick Remove
• Last effect applied works until you Remove it

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Animation Tips

• Use sparingly
• Just because you candoesnt mean you should..
• Subtle effects best
• Bold effects for meaningful emphasis
• Overuse easily tires audience
• Use consistently
• Variety can be confusing
• Test!!!! Check it out..