Events and Speed

Quick reference

• 00:04 This is one of a number of videos about animating and PowerPoint, including what
• 00:08 is good animation, adding animations as well as various complex animation types.
• 00:14 This video is specifically about animation events and
• 00:17 that's what's actually occurring in a slide show that fired the animation.
• 00:22 As well as had it customized and change the timing.
• 00:25 So let's peak in by going to the animations tab on the ribbon and
• 00:28 the animation pine.
• 00:30 I've already pre-animated this presentation so
• 00:32 that you can download both this version in it's current state.
• 00:35 As well as the completed version and compare the differences.
• 00:38 We can tell up immediately from the text that I've added to the shapes
• 00:41 what it is I wanna do in terms of animating them.
• 00:43 For the first shape I want to animate On Click and so on.
• 00:47 From the gallery we can see that it has a wipe entrance animation, the effect Option
• 00:51 is from left and the animation event in the timing group is on click.
• 00:55 In fact all of the shapes on the slide are animated identically.
• 00:58 So let's play that in slide show mode.
• 01:00 Shift F5 plays the slide show from the current slide.
• 01:03 Now I pressed the enter button to send a click.
• 01:07 You can also do that same thing by clicking the primary button on your mouse,
• 01:10 or by clicking the space bar key.
• 01:13 In all cases, this sends a click message to PowerPoint,
• 01:15 which responds by playing the next on click animation event.
• 01:19 So I press enter to fire each animation event.
• 01:23 ESC on the keyboard gets us out of Slideshow Mode, and
• 01:25 now we're back to our presentation.
• 01:28 So the first and second shapes we'd leave as on click.
• 01:31 With this shape, I would like the animation event to be after previous.
• 01:35 Which I select from the ribbon.
• 01:37 Notice how the timeline indicated bumps here immediately shows us that
• 01:40 the animation event is indeed commencing immediately
• 01:44 at the time of the end of the previous animation.
• 01:48 These indicators can be moved with your mouse, either by dragging to a new
• 01:52 position or selecting and dragging either the start point or the end point.
• 01:56 But notice I cannot drag the indicator before the end of the previous animation,
• 02:00 because it's set to play after that animation.
• 02:04 So using your mouse is a good alternative way to work with animations in
• 02:07 the animation pane in addition to the ribbon.
• 02:10 Finally we set the last animation to fire with previous.
• 02:14 Again the timeline indicated changes and the animation commences immediately
• 02:18 at the time of the start of the previous animation.
• 02:22 Also I can use the mouse to drag the animation entry to a later time.
• 02:26 But I cannot drag it earlier than the commencement of
• 02:29 the previous animation entry.
• 02:31 Shift F5 to view the slide in the slide show.
• 02:34 Enter to fire the first animation.
• 02:37 Enter to fire the second.
• 02:38 And the third follows automatically afterward, and
• 02:41 the fourth shape animates at the same time as the commencement of the third.
• 02:45 So let's just preview that again by going back to the first animation using
• 02:49 the backspace key on the keyboard.
• 02:51 Enter again and again you can download the final presentation to view
• 02:56 the animations on this slide.
• 02:58 So we go to the next slide and we're looking at duration.
• 03:03 Each animation is set to a duration of two seconds, so
• 03:06 I select the very first entry with the mouse.
• 03:08 Hold the shift key and select the last one with the mouse.
• 03:11 Which selects all of them in sequence, and will make them all after previous.
• 03:16 So they will fire one after each other.
• 03:18 Shift F5, and we can see our first, and second, and third, and fourth.
• 03:28 Escape on the keyboard.
• 03:30 I'd like to make the first one at 0.5 seconds duration.
• 03:34 And notice how the timeline entry for
• 03:36 that animation shrinks and all of the subsequent animations are brought forward
• 03:39 to match without changing their duration.
• 03:43 I make this one one second, this one 1.5.
• 03:48 Notice also that I can type the time into the box and
• 03:52 press enter or tab to set that enter and leave this one on 2 seconds.
• 03:56 Now let's play that with the play button,
• 03:59 I'll view the slide show while previewing the timeline.
• 04:02 Very fast slower, slower gain, and slowest.
• 04:08 So on slide three we're going to look at the delay.
• 04:12 These are all on click with a duration of two seconds,
• 04:15 I'm going to make all of these with previous.
• 04:17 So shift F5 and they all animate immediately.
• 04:22 The second one a delay of one second,
• 04:27 the third one a delay of two seconds, and the fourth one, a delay of three seconds.
• 04:31 Instead of using the ribbon, I will drag this entry into the timeline.
• 04:35 Play, watch the preview, and the timeline, and they all animate Eight, with a delay.
• 04:41 But also there's a bit of overlap, and that's a rather nice effect.
• 04:45 Let's have a look at the order of animations.
• 04:47 Let's make all of these entries after previous and
• 04:50 then play them to see what order they animate in.
• 04:53 Number 1, number 2, number 4, and then number 3.
• 04:58 And it appears as though they've been animated in the order that they were
• 05:01 placed on the slide from left to right.
• 05:04 Escape.
• 05:05 Now I want this entry to actually fire lots, so I select it with the mouse in
• 05:10 the timeline, click, drag, and drop it to the new location.
• 05:14 Shift F5 each plays automatically after previous and
• 05:18 then number 3 and number 4 plays as I wanted it to.
• 05:21 So it's very easy to change the order of entries in the timeline by dragging and
• 05:25 dropping them with a mask.
• 05:26 As well as of course, re-ordering them with a ribbon.
• 05:30 Finally, let's look at this animation on the last slide which is an emphasis
• 05:34 animation.
• 05:35 And there are other videos that deal with adding these kinds of animations.
• 05:39 The animation is a pulse, shift F5, press and it pulse responds.
• 05:45 What I'd like to do it to have it pulse three times.
• 05:47 So I can right click, effect options, or even double click on the entry, and
• 05:52 that brings up the dialogue box with three tabs.
• 05:55 Now we could add a sound to the animation or make it dim or
• 05:59 hide as well as options to animate any text on the shape.
• 06:04 Switch to the timing tab and again here is another location for
• 06:07 options such as how to start the animation event, the delay, the duration.
• 06:12 And here is the repeat option.
• 06:14 I can drop the arrow down and select three or repeat until the end of the slide or
• 06:19 in fact I could type in any number there and press enter.
• 06:22 So I select three, press okay.
• 06:26 Notice how our timeline indicator has changed.
• 06:28 So let's zoom in.
• 06:30 Click the second split tab and zoom in, and
• 06:33 we can see the animation loops every 0.5 seconds.
• 06:37 If we wanted, we could also right click on the timeline and
• 06:40 hide the advance timeline.
• 06:43 You can also drop this little arrow down to go into the advanced options.
• 06:47 I prefer to see the advanced timelines so that I can see the start, duration, and
• 06:51 the end of each animation entry.
• 06:54 So let's preview that particular slide and there it pulses three times,
• 06:57 that's very good.
• 06:58 Learning how to animate and work with animations is a good investment of your
• 07:02 time, and it's so useful to help you present your slides to an audience.
• 07:06 Good luck with them.
• 07:07 I love animations in PowerPoint.

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