Slide animations and transitions
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Adding animations to your PowerPoint slides can help to capture the attention of your audience and highlight key
points in your content. They can also help to ensure a smooth transition between your topics.
When a new slide appears, your audience tries to read the slide. If you start talking immediately, they may miss
your explanations! Adding some movements on your slides helps your audience to be aware and motivated to
your presentation. However, using too many animations can be distracting so be careful.
Applying Animations
1. Select the slide in which you wish to apply an animation
2. Select an object or placeholder on your slide
3. Go to Animations > Animate > Select an animation from the drop down box
Click on the animation you wish to apply
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Removing Animations
1. To remove an animation, select the object you wish to remove the animation from
2. Go to Animations > Animate > No Animation
Custom Animations
As well as applying preset animations to your slides, you can also use custom animations to define exactly which
animation you want to use, for which object, at what point.
Custom Animation Type
There are three main types of animation.
How the object enters the slide
The emphasis that happens to the object selected. (When the object is already on the slide)
How the object exits from the slide
(If you are intending to apply an animation to all slides, select the appropriate slide master, View > Slide
Master)
1. Animations > Custom Animation
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2. The Custom Animation task pane will open in on the right side of your screen.
3. Select the object you wish to add a custom animation to.
4. On the task pane click Add Effect > choose animation
type: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit
Tip: Selecting a placeholder / object
Click on the borderline, not on the small white
circle. Your mouse pointer should have four
arrows when you mouse over to the borderline.
5. Choose an effect
Note: If you use too many animations your
audience may feel motion sick. Keep it simple.
Click one to select the effect
More Effects shows you all effects
available.
Click an effect and see the preview. Select
the one you would like, click OK.
Scroll down to see the rest of the effects.
As long as this option is ticked, you can see the preview of effect. Keep
choosing effects until you find the one you like then OK or cancel.
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6. Done!
NOTICE:
A number appears next to the custom effect
object. This is the order of your custom
animations when you do a slide show.
Repeat steps and create custom animations
on your slides.
Applying the same animation and effects to multiple objects/placeholders.
1. Select all objects/placeholders that you wish to customise the same
Tip: Selecting multiple objects
Hold down the Ctrl key and select each
2. Apply custom animation
object you would like to apply the same
animation to.
NOTICE: Animation order
The custom animation order number appears
on both objects that you selected.
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These two act at the same time.
A star mark appears
next to the slides that
have animations
and/or transitions
applied.
Modifying animations
You may wish to change the type of effect after you apply animation. Use the task pane
1. Select the animation to be modified.
NOTE:
You can change the order of effects by
dragging them up or down the list
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2. Click Change
NOTE:
The Add Effect button is now the Change
effect button.
Click the drop lists here
to change the options
Deleting custom animation
1. Select animation that you wish to delete from the task pane. Note: this will only delete the animation not the
object.
One click
2. Click Remove or use the DELETE key.
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Slide Transitions
Slide transitions happen between slides.
1. Select any of your slides
2. Use the Slide Transition pane > Animation > choose Slide Transition.
3. Hover over each transition to see a preview.
(2) You can change its speed (3) You can add a transition
- Slow, Medium, Fast sound, but this can be very
distracting for your audience.
Click here to see all available transitions
Click here to apply the
On mouse click – Automatically after
transition to all of your
next slide appears – next slide appears
slides.
after one click after a set time.
If you don’t wish to use a slide transition,
you can select No Transition.
Choose a transition
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