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Make your animated objects speed up or slow down, or play with or without your intervention, depending on which you desire.

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Quick reference

Topic

Advanced animation settings.

When to use

To customize a sequence of animations in the Animation Pane or from the ribbon.

Instructions

These instructions will work provided you already have an animated object on the slide.

  • To open the Animation Pane: On the Animations tab, in the Advanced Animation group, click Animation Pane.
  • Several methods to trigger an animation are available on the Animations tab, in the Timing group:

On Click,

With Previous, and

After Previous.

  • The duration and delay of an animation can be set with the number spinners in the Timing group.
  • The order of an animation in the Animation Pane can be changed using Reorder Animation in the Timing group or by selecting an animation entry with the pointer, and dragging to a new location.
  • To duplicate an animation from an animated object to the non-animated object:
    • Select the animated object,
    • Click Animation Painter,
    • Click the object that you wish to animate.
  • Further advanced options are available by right-clicking an animation entry in the Animation Pane and selecting either the Effect Options or Timing menu items. Options include:
    • Effect tab – settings such as Direction, Smooth Start, Smooth End, or Bounce End. Enhancements include adding a sound, and options for after when the animation occurs.
    • Timing tab – Start options, Delay, Duration, Repeat, whether to Rewind the animation and Triggers.

Also note:

Triggers are a means of starting an animation when the trigger is fired – usually on the click of a particular object on the slide.

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  • 00:04 This is one of a number of videos about animating in PowerPoint, including: what is good animation, adding animations, as well as various
  • 00:11 complex animation types. This video is specifically about animation events, and that is what actually occurs in a slideshow to fire the
  • 00:19 animation as well as how to customize and change the timing. So let’s begin by going to the animations tab on the ribbon and the animation
  • 00:28 pane. I’ve already pre-animated this presentation so that you can download both this version, in its current state, as well as the completed
  • 00:35 version to compare the differences. We can tell immediately from the text that I’ve added to these shapes what it is I want to do in terms of
  • 00:43 animating them. For the first shape, I want to animate on click and so on. From the gallery we can see that it has a wipe entrance animation.
  • 00:53 The effect option is from left and the animation event in the timing group is on click, and in fact all of the shapes on the slide are animated
  • 01:02 identically. So let’s play that in slideshow mode. SHIFT F5 plays the slideshow from the current slide. Now I press the ENTER button to send a
  • 01:13 click. You can also do the same thing by clicking the primary button on your mouse, or by pressing the SPACEBAR key. In all cases this
  • 01:22 sends a click message to PowerPoint, which responds by playing the next on click animation event. So I press ENTER to fire each animation
  • 01:31 event. ESC on the keyboard gets us out of slideshow mode and now were’ back to our presentation. So the first and second shapes we
  • 01:39 leave as on click. With this shape, I would like the animation event to be after previous, which I select from the ribbon. Notice how the timeline
  • 01:48 indicator bumps out immediately and shows us that the animation event is indeed commencing immediately at the time of the end of the
  • 01:56 previous animation. These indicators can be moved with your mouse, either by dragging to a new position, or selecting and dragging either
  • 02:05 the start point, or the end point. But notice, I cannot drag the indicator before the end of the previous animation because it is set to play after
  • 02:16 that animation. So using your mouse is a good alternative way to work with animations in the animation pane, in addition to the ribbon. Finally,
  • 02:25 we set the last animation to fire with previous. Again, the timeline indicator changes, and the animation commences immediately at the time
  • 02:34 of the start of the previous animation. Also, I can use the mouse to drag the animation entry to a later time, but I cannot drag it earlier than the
  • 02:45 commencement of that previous animation entry. SHIFT F5 to view the slide in the slideshow, ENTER to fire the first animation, ENTER to fire
  • 02:55 the second and the third follows automatically afterward and the fourth shape animates at the same time as the commencement of the third.
  • 03:04 So let’s just preview that again by going back to the first animation using the BACKSPACE key on the keyboard, ENTER, ENTER and again you
  • 03:15 can download the final presentation to view the animations on this slide. So we go to the next slide and we’re going to look at duration. Each
  • 03:25 animation is set to a duration of 2 seconds, so I select the very first entry with the mouse, hold the SHIFT key, select the last one with the
  • 03:33 mouse, which selects all of them in sequence, and I make them all after previous, and so they will fire one after each other. SHIFT F5 and we
  • 03:43 can see our first and second and third, and fourth. ESC on the keyboard. I’d like to make the first one at 0.5 seconds duration and notice
  • 03:58 how the timeline entry for that animation shrinks and all of the subsequent animations are brought forward to match without changing their
  • 04:05 duration. I make this one 1 second, this one 1.5; notice also that I can type the time into the box and press ENTER or TAB to set that entry. And
  • 04:17 leave this at 2 seconds. So let’s play that with the play button and view the slideshow while previewing the timeline. Very fast, slower, slower
  • 04:31 again and slowest. So on slide three we’re going to look at the delay. These are all on click with the duration of 2 seconds. I’m going to make all
  • 04:39 of these with previous, so SHIFT F5 and they all animate together. I will make the first one animate immediately, which it already is, the
  • 04:49 second one a delay of 1 second, the third one a delay of 2 seconds and the fourth one a delay of 3 seconds and instead of using the ribbon I will
  • 04:59 drag this entry in the timeline. Play, watch the preview and the timeline and they all animate in with a delay, but also there’s a bit of overlap and
  • 05:09 that’s a rather nice effect. Let’s have a look at the order of animations. Let’s make all of these entries after previous and then play them to see
  • 05:18 what order they animate in. Number 1 fires, number 2, and then number 4 and number 3 and it appears as though they’ve been animated in
  • 05:30 the order that they were placed on the slide, from left to right. ESC. Now I want this entry to actually fire last so I select it with the mouse in
  • 05:39 the timeline, click, drag, and drop it to the new location. SHIFT F5, each plays automatically after previous and then number three and
  • 05:52 number 4 plays as I wanted it to. So it’s very easy to change the order of entries in the timeline by dragging and dropping with the
  • 05:59 mouse, as well as of course reordering them with the ribbon. Finally, let’s look at this animation on the last slide, which is an
  • 06:07 emphasis animation, and there are other video that deal with adding these kinds of animations. The animation is a pulse, SHIFT F5, press
  • 06:16 ENTER, and watch the animation fire. Notice that it pulses once. What I’d like to do is have it pulse three times, so I can right click, effect
  • 06:26 options, or even double click the entry, and that brings up the dialog box with three tabs. Now we could add a sound to the animation or make it
  • 06:34 dim or hide, as well as options to animate any text on the shape. Switch to the timing tab and again, here is another location for options, such
  • 06:44 as how to start the animation event, the delay, the duration, and here is the repeat option. I can drop the arrow down and select three or repeat
  • 06:52 until the end of the slide, or in fact I could type any number in there and press ENTER, so I select three, press ok. Notice how our timeline
  • 07:02 indicator has changed, so let’s zoom in. Click the seconds split tab and zoom in and we can see that the animation loops even 0.5 seconds.
  • 07:12 If we wanted, we can also right click on the timeline and hide the advance timeline. You can also drop this little arrow down to go into
  • 07:21 advanced options. I prefer to see the advanced timeline so that I can see the start, duration, and end of each animation entry. So let’s
  • 07:30 preview that particular slide, and there it pulses three times. That’s very good. Learning how to animate and work with animations is a good
  • 07:41 investment of your time and it’s so useful to help you present your slides to an audience. Good luck with them. I love animations in PowerPoint.

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