Prepare Animations and Slide Transitions

If you’d like to keep your audience from reading ahead of you while you’re still making a point related to the previous item on your slide, you can create animations. When you use animations, each time you click the mouse, another item on your slide (either text or a graphic) appears. This is also known as “progressive disclosure.” Use the Preset Animation and Custom Animation commands (Slide Show menu) to apply animations to selected items on a slide.

When you move to the next item in an animation, previously displayed items can be dimmed, hidden, or changed to a different color. You can set text items, including bullets and titles, to animate one character, one word, or one paragraph at a time. In addition, you can create more than one animation per slide, and determine the order in which they are activated.

You can also add special transitions between slides, by clicking Slide Transition (Slide Show menu). Advancing to the next slide automatically activates any transition effects you apply (which can include sound effects).

Use buttons to apply animation effects   Buttons on the Animation Effects toolbar can help you quickly apply animations to items on your slides. To display the Animation Effects toolbar, click Toolbars (View menu), and then click Animation Effects.

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