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How to get your slides ready for a professional presentation including transitions between slides and animating slide elements.

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Animations and Transitions

Transitions make your slideshow look more dynamic when moving from one slide to the next, and animations allow the objects on your slides to appear and disappear while holding the audience’s attention.

When to use

Transitions and animations draw the viewer’s attention to each new piece of information as it’s presented.  Transitions draw their attention to each new slide, and animations draw their attention to new information as it appears within a slide.

Instructions

Adding a transition to a slide

  • Click “Transitions” in the toolbar to open the “Animations” sidebar
  • In the “Animations” sidebar, click the drop down menu and choose an animation
  • Move the slider to change the speed
  • Click “Apply to all slides” to use that transition on every slide in the presentation

Adding an animation to an object

  • Right click an object and click “Animate”

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  • Select an object and click “Add animation” in the “Animations” sidebar

Animation options

  • “x” button: remove animation
  • “Fade in” drop down menu: Choose how the text appears and disappears
  • “On click” dropdown menu: Choose when the animation runs
    • On click: The animation runs when you click, press the spacebar, or arrow keys
    • After previous: The animation runs as soon as the last animation finishes
    • With pervious: The animation runs at the same time as the last animation
    • By paragraph: Animates individual paragraphs in a text
  • Slider: Choose how quickly the animation plays

Reordering animations

  • Click animation
  • Drag animation up or down in the “Animations” sidebar
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  • 00:04 Something that will really make your Slideshow presentation
  • 00:08 stand out is by adding appropriate transitions or
  • 00:11 animations to individual items within your slide.
  • 00:15 A transition is the difference between moving between one slide to the next.
  • 00:21 And instead of having that next slide appear immediately,
  • 00:25 you can add some subtle effects, such as a fade.
  • 00:29 Let's say I'd like to add a transition from the previous slide to this slide.
  • 00:34 If I go up to the tool bar, I can select Transition and
  • 00:38 this opens up a new side menu.
  • 00:41 From the drop down, I can select a Fade.
  • 00:44 Let's select Fade and see how that looks.
  • 00:46 I can adjust the speed, the duration of that fade and then by going to the bottom,
  • 00:53 I can select Play and get a preview of what it will look like.
  • 00:57 Let’s see what this fade will look like.
  • 01:00 I select Play, it briefly shows the previous slide and
  • 01:03 you can see how it faded it into the current slide.
  • 01:08 Now, let’s say I’d like to use something a little more fancy in this case,
  • 01:12 I'm gonna select slide from right, let's see how this one works.
  • 01:16 So I've selected slide, I'm gonna select the Play button.
  • 01:20 Here again we see a preview and now it's almost like a timeline effect.
  • 01:25 I'm gonna play that one one more time.
  • 01:28 You can see the previous slide, it's going to slide into my next slide.
  • 01:34 Now, you can edit these transitions on a slide-by-slide basis,
  • 01:38 or you can select this apply to all slides button, and
  • 01:42 it will apply to every slide within your presentation.
  • 01:47 Now another effect that we can add are animations.
  • 01:51 And animations pertain to individual objects or
  • 01:56 individual text boxes within your slide.
  • 02:00 So in this case,
  • 02:01 let's say that I would like to present these bullet points one at a time.
  • 02:06 I don't want them to appear on the screen all at once.
  • 02:10 To do so, select the desired object > Right-click > Animate.
  • 02:17 Again, we get a new menu appear on the right.
  • 02:21 So by default, usually your first selection is going to be a fade in but
  • 02:26 you do have other options to play with as well.
  • 02:29 I'm gonna select Fade in, I'm gonna leave it as on click, and
  • 02:34 that means when I click on the screen,
  • 02:36 it will transition or it will fade that particular object in.
  • 02:42 So let's hit the Play button and see what happens here.
  • 02:45 I'm going to hit Play, it's actually gonna show that brief transition we applied.
  • 02:50 And now I need to interact with it to see if it's working properly.
  • 02:53 So I"m going to click on the screen and all of my bullet points have appeared.
  • 02:57 Well, that's not quite what I want.
  • 02:59 I actually want them to appear one at a time.
  • 03:02 So let's see how we can have them appear as I click on the slide.
  • 03:07 I'm gonna select Stop, and here we have a check box called By paragraph.
  • 03:13 In this case if I select this, now when I click on the screen,
  • 03:17 it should only fade in one of these bullet points at a time.
  • 03:22 So let's see if it works.
  • 03:23 I'm gonna select the Play button.
  • 03:26 It's gonna show me the transition, and now when,
  • 03:29 I make my first click, just the first bullet point appears.
  • 03:33 I'm gonna make a second click and then the second one appears and so on.
  • 03:37 This is exactly what I want.
  • 03:39 When I go to present this material, I want to introduce these items one at a time.
  • 03:46 Get familiar with using both transitions between slides and
  • 03:51 adding animations within an individual slide.

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