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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:
- 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.
- 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.
Login to download- 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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