Transitions

Quick reference

• 00:00 This video covers transition in PowerPoint.
• 00:07 Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next,
• 00:12 either in a subtle or an exciting fashion.
• 00:15 In this video, we're going to cover the types of transitions, the timing,
• 00:19 the fact that they work forwards and backwards.
• 00:21 A little bit about the logic of using transitions, and
• 00:25 then finally dynamic transitions.
• 00:27 And morph transitions, which are actually quite amazing,
• 00:31 will be the subject of another video.
• 00:34 So let's hit Escape on the keyboard, and get out of reading view.
• 00:38 We've just been running this presentation constrained with a window.
• 00:41 And here's our presentation.
• 00:42 Notice that I've got some sections which group my slides into various concepts, and
• 00:47 sections are also the subject of another video.
• 00:50 Let's first have a look at the Transitions tab on the ribbon.
• 00:53 The first thing we notice is the transitions to this slide group,
• 00:58 as well as effect options and some timing options.
• 01:02 I drop the little arrow down known as the More button because it shows more options,
• 01:06 and it shows the group of transitions, subtle, exciting and dynamic and so on.
• 01:12 So I choose a subtle transition of Fade, and
• 01:15 we get a preview of how that will appear.
• 01:18 For this slide, I select Reveal, and a bit of a preview again.
• 01:22 And now let's go into Reading view, and click through those slides, and
• 01:26 see how the transitions work.
• 01:28 And so subtle transitions are a very good way when you've got a particular area for
• 01:33 your presentation and you want to encourage the flow between slides and
• 01:37 not to interrupt the concentration of your audience.
• 01:41 However, when you move from a particular area of the presentation into a whole new
• 01:44 concept or perhaps even another speaker, it's okay to have an exciting transition.
• 01:50 Or perhaps, you're presentation is standalone and
• 01:53 you wanna make your presentation a bit more engaging.
• 01:55 And standalone presentations are the subjects of other videos, as well.
• 02:00 So we select the slide that we wish to add the transition to.
• 02:04 Drop the little More button down again and we have transitions such as Cube.
• 02:09 We get a preview of Flip and Shred.
• 02:12 And these transitions again are just a way of breaking up our presentation into
• 02:15 more defined blocks of information within the story line.
• 02:20 Notice the Effect Options button, the context of which changes
• 02:24 depending on which transition on the slide you've selected.
• 02:27 These options really are a variation of the transition applied.
• 02:31 Such as quite often the direction.
• 02:34 So if we select slide seven, remember that a transition governs the effect
• 02:39 that will occur moving towards the slide that you have the transition placed on.
• 02:45 I will add a switch transition and we go forward to that slide, and
• 02:50 in our slide show mode I might be speaking about a particular slide.
• 02:54 So for example, I bumped the keyboard and I go forward a little bit too quickly.
• 02:58 I could use the backspace key on the keyboard and
• 03:00 the slide transition works in reverse.
• 03:03 It's a very powerful addition to transitions in PowerPoint that makes them
• 03:07 so good.
• 03:08 It doesn't break the continuity.
• 03:10 You talk particularly when you're presenting live and you make a mistake.
• 03:13 Notice also that you can change the duration of the transition so
• 03:16 that we could actually select more than one slide, holding the control key and
• 03:21 select those thumbnails and change the timing of those transition.
• 03:26 Now, I'll bump that up to two seconds and of course that works forward and
• 03:30 in reverse, as well.
• 03:31 But before we move on to a lot further at the logic of adding transition,
• 03:36 let's have a look at the Apply to All button.
• 03:38 When you apply a transition to a slide via Apply to All,
• 03:42 applies that transition, that is the effects and
• 03:46 the timing of the transition to all slides in the presentation.
• 03:51 It's a real time saver, but it's also useful because it's good try and restrain
• 03:54 yourself to using a single style of transition throughout your presentation.
• 03:59 And this will allow you to apply a particular look to the whole presentation.
• 04:07 Let's look at the logic of adding transitions to presentations.
• 04:12 I've got some chevrons on this slide number one, two, three.
• 04:16 And then on the following slide, numbered four, five,and six and so on.
• 04:20 So to get good continuity between these slides,
• 04:22 the logical transition to add is a push transition From Right,
• 04:28 and again, we apply the same transition of Push From Right to the next slide as well.
• 04:34 Now, we preview the transition of those three slides, and
• 04:38 the slides enter in a logical fashion.
• 04:40 And that gives continuity to our presentation.
• 04:43 So I speak about items 1, 2, and 3.
• 04:47 Click which brings you in items 4 to 6, click and that brings you in items 7 to 9.
• 04:52 So always think about the logic of transitions that you apply to your slides
• 04:56 in a presentation.
• 04:58 Dynamic transitions, some people struggle to understand these, but
• 05:01 they're actually very easy.
• 05:03 Just imagine the transition happens to everything
• 05:06 on the slide apart from the background,
• 05:09 provided that the background is the same on different slides.
• 05:13 So a dynamic transition is really a dual transition.
• 05:16 The first part of the transition,
• 05:17 a fade transition, is applied to the slide background.
• 05:21 Now, if the slide background on both slides is identical,
• 05:24 the slides will change but no-one will know, they just won't see it.
• 05:28 It appears to stay static.
• 05:30 For the second part of the transition, a different transition is applied to
• 05:34 the objects on the slide, and when the transition is played the objects will move
• 05:38 but it appears as though the slide itself doesn't.
• 05:42 So on slide 13, I will apply a rotate dynamic transition.
• 05:47 And on slide 14, I will apply a Fly Through dynamic transition.
• 05:52 So let's preview that in readign view from slide 12.
• 05:56 Now of course, slide 12 appears immediately,
• 05:58 because no transition was applied.
• 06:00 However, when I click slide 13, it moves in but
• 06:02 it appears that the background stays there, and the same for slide 14.
• 06:07 And again, this transitions work backwards and forwards.
• 06:10 So please consider using slide transitions,
• 06:12 from subtle transitions to group similar ideas together,
• 06:15 to a more exciting transitions between separate groups of ideas in your story.
• 06:20 On the Transitions tab of the ribbon, is the transitions to this slide group.
• 06:25 Options to advance a slide, on Mouse Click or automatically,
• 06:29 as well as the option to apply that particular transition to all the slides.
• 06:33 And of course, the effect options, and the button to preview,
• 06:35 which allows you to preview the effect without going into slide show mode.
• 06:40 Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions,
• 06:43 there are dynamic transitions whereas the objects on the slide that appear to move.
• 06:49 But don't overuse transitions, it's better to stick to a single style of transition
• 06:54 throughout your whole presentation rather than to overwhelm people.

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