Multimedia Presentations

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Multimedia Presentations Animation (using
Microsoft PowerPoint)
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• Animation in slide shows is used
• to make a slide more interesting
• to focus on one particular object of a slide.

but
too
much
animation
can
be
really
irritating
for
the
Viewer !
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Animation is the way objects appear on the
slide. Here are some different ways that objects
can appear (Click for each one)
Objects can fly in from the top
or the left
or the top left
or the right
or the top right
or bottom
or the bottom left
or the bottom right.
Text can fly in one word at a time
or even one letter at a time.
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Objects can
appear at the click of the mouse
dissolve in
appear like opening blinds horizontally
or vertically
or like a checkerboard
or crawl in very slowly from any direction
or flash and disappear
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Objects can also
spiral in
or stretch across from the middle.
or appear in a strip coming from any direction.
or swivel
or zoom out.
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Effects can then be added to the objects such as
Adding a sound.
Hiding on the next mouse click.
Changing colour after the animation.
Click for the next slide
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All these animation effects can be set using the
Custom Animation dialog box. The easiest way to
open this is to right-click on the object.
The End.