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Add smooth or exciting transitions between slides to increase the smoothness and continuity of your slideshow into an almost movie-like format.
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Quick reference
Topic
Using slide transitions to provide continuity or a break between slides.
When to use
Use to gradually transition between slides with similar content, or use more exciting transitions to create a break between themes in the presentation.
Instructions
- When applying a Transition, select the slide you want to transition to.
- To apply a transition, click the thumbnail for the transition you wish to apply in the transition to this slide group.
- Use the Effect Options drop-down arrow to change the direction or other effects relating to that transition.
- On the Transitions tab, in the Timing group, you can:
- Apply a sound to a transition,
- Change the duration of a transition
- Apply the current transition and settings to all slides,
- Advance the slide by clicking, after a specific duration of time, or both.
- Transition Styles are available when you click the arrow at the edge of the transition thumbnails, and include:
- , such as Reveal and Wipe,
- , such as Ripple and Honeycomb.
- content in which there is a different transition for the slide as opposed to the content on the slide:
- The slide background will fade from one slide to the next. If the slide background is identical, it will appear as though the slide background doesn’t transition.
- The objects on the slide will undergo a dynamic transition and will appear to leave the slide behind to be replaced by new content on that slide.
Also note:
Some transitions are excellent between groups of slides when you don’t want to break people’s concentration.
Exciting and dynamic transitions are excellent between various concepts in a presentation when you want to give the audience clues that you’re moving to a new concept in the presentation.
Transitions also work in reverse. You can try this by pressing the Backspace key during a slide show to go back to a previous, transition slide.
Office 365 subscription version
Morph transitions change objects by calculating the transition between that object, and the same object on a different slide at a different location and size.
Instructions
- Place a picture of a shape on a slide.
- In either the Slides Pane or the Slide Sorter view:
- Right-click a thumbnail in the Slide Pane view and select Duplicate Slide.
- Move the image of shape to a new location and change its size.
- Click the Transitions tab and select Morph in the Transitions to this slide group.
- Click F5 on your keyboard to open a slideshow.
- Click the mouse to fire the transition and notice how the transition calculates where the object is on the second (duplicated) slide and ‘morphs’ to it.
- 00:04 This video covers transitions in PowerPoint.
- 00:06 Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next
- 00:09 in either a subtle or an exciting fashion.
- 00:12 In this video, we're going to cover the types of transitions, the timing,
- 00:15 the fact that they work backwards and forward.
- 00:17 A little bit about the logic of using transitions, dynamic transitions and
- 00:21 morph transitions,
- 00:23 which are only available in the Office 365 subscription version of PowerPoint 2016.
- 00:28 So let's hit the Escape key on the keyboard and get out of reading view,
- 00:31 which has been running this presentation constrained within a window and
- 00:35 here's our presentation.
- 00:36 Notice that I've got some sections, which group my slides into various concepts and
- 00:40 sections of the subject of another video.
- 00:42 And so I've titled this section about subtle transitions and deciding,
- 00:46 and so on.
- 00:47 So let's have a look at a Transitions tab on the ribbon.
- 00:49 The first thing we notice is the transitions to this slide group,
- 00:53 as well as effect options and some timing options.
- 00:57 I drop the little arrow down known as the More button,
- 00:59 because it shows more options.
- 01:01 And it shows the groups of transitions being subtle, exciting and dynamic.
- 01:06 So I choose a subtle transition, a fade and
- 01:09 we get a preview of how that will appear.
- 01:11 For this slide, I select Reveal and a bit of our preview again.
- 01:15 And now, let's go into reading view and
- 01:17 click through the preview of those slides and see how those transitions work.
- 01:22 And so, subtle transitions are very good when you've got a particular area of your
- 01:26 presentation and you wanna encourage the flow between slides not to
- 01:30 interrupt the concentration of your audience.
- 01:33 However, when you move from a particular area of the presentation into a whole new
- 01:36 concept or perhaps even another speaker, it's okay to have an exciting transition.
- 01:40 Or perhaps, your presentation is stand alone and
- 01:42 you wanna make you presentation a bit more engaging and
- 01:45 standalone presentations are the subject of other videos.
- 01:48 So, we select the slide that we wish to add the transition to.
- 01:51 Drop the little more button down again and we have transitions such as cube.
- 01:57 We get a preview or flip, or shred.
- 02:01 And these transitions, again, are just a way to breaking up a presentation
- 02:05 into more defined blocks of information within the storyline of the presentation.
- 02:10 Notice the Effect Options button, the context of which
- 02:13 changes depending on which transition on the slide you have selected.
- 02:18 These options really are a variation of the transition applied such as quite
- 02:22 often the direction.
- 02:23 So we select slide seven, remember that a transition governs the effect that will
- 02:28 occur moving towards the slide that you place a transition on.
- 02:35 I will add a Switch transition and go into reading view from the previous slide.
- 02:39 So we go forward to that slide, slide show mode and
- 02:43 I might be speaking about that particular slide.
- 02:46 So for example, I bump the keyboard and I go forward a little bit too quickly, I
- 02:50 can use the backspace key on the keyboard and the slide transition works in reverse.
- 02:54 It's a very useful addition to transitions in PowerPoint.
- 02:57 It doesn't break the continuity of you're talk,
- 02:59 particularly when you're presenting live.
- 03:02 Notice also that you can change the duration of a transition, so
- 03:05 we can actually select more than one slide holding the Ctrl key.
- 03:09 By selecting those thumbnails, and change the timing of
- 03:12 the transitions to all of those slides as well as to one if it was selected.
- 03:17 Now, I bumped that up to two seconds.
- 03:19 And of course, that works forwards and in reverse as well.
- 03:22 But before we move on to look at the logic of adding transitions,
- 03:25 let's have a look at the Apply to All button.
- 03:29 When you apply a transition to a slide,
- 03:31 the Apply to All button applies the transition.
- 03:34 That is the effect on the timing of the transition to all slides in
- 03:38 the presentation.
- 03:40 That's a real time saver, but it's also useful, because it's good to try and
- 03:44 restrain yourself to using a single type of transition throughout your
- 03:48 presentation.
- 03:49 This will allow you to apply particular one that you've got.
- 03:52 Let's look at the logic of adding transitions to presentation slides.
- 03:58 Now I've got some SharePoint on this slide number 1, 2,
- 04:01 3 and then on the following slide number 4, 5, 6 and so on.
- 04:05 So, to get good continuity between this two slides.
- 04:08 So, the logical transition to add is a push transition from right.
- 04:13 And again, we apply the same transition of push from right to the next slide as well.
- 04:18 Now, we preview the transition of those three slides and
- 04:21 the slides enter in a logical fashion and that gives continuity to our presentation.
- 04:26 So I speak about items 1 to 3, click, click brings in items four to 4 to 6.
- 04:32 Click and then items 7 to 9.
- 04:36 So, always think about the logic of your transitions that you apply to your slides
- 04:41 in a presentation.
- 04:43 Dynamic transitions, some people struggle to understand dynamic transitions, but
- 04:47 they're actually very easy.
- 04:49 Just imagine that the transitions happen to everything on the slide apart
- 04:53 from the background.
- 04:54 A dynamic transition is really a dual transition.
- 04:57 The first part of the transition,
- 04:59 a fade transition is applied to the slide background.
- 05:02 Now if the slide background on both slides is identical, the slide will change, but
- 05:07 no one will be aware that it has.
- 05:08 It appears to stay static.
- 05:10 For the second part of the transition,
- 05:12 a different transition is applied to the objects on the slide.
- 05:14 And when they are played, the objects will move, but it appears as though,
- 05:19 the slide doesn't.
- 05:20 So on slide 13, I will apply a rotate dynamic transition.
- 05:24 And on slide 14, I will apply a fly through dynamic transition.
- 05:28 So, let's preview that in reading view from slide 12.
- 05:32 Now of course, slide 12 appears immediately,
- 05:34 because no transition was applied to it.
- 05:37 However, when I click slide 13 moves in, but
- 05:40 it appears that the background stays there and the same for slide 14.
- 05:46 And again, these transitions work both forwards and in a backwards direction.
- 05:51 Now quickly, to morph transitions available only in the Office 365
- 05:55 subscription version of PowerPoint 2016.
- 05:58 Morph is similar in concept to dynamic, but
- 06:01 it changes objects by calculating the transition between that object and
- 06:05 the same object on a different slide at a different location or size or both.
- 06:10 I have a picture of the Earth that I downloaded form an online picture source
- 06:14 within PowerPoint.
- 06:15 Let's duplicate that slide by selecting the thumbnail and Ctrl+D.
- 06:19 Go to the second slide, move the image to the right and make it bigger.
- 06:27 Then duplicate slide one again and drag it to the end of the presentation.
- 06:31 We move the image and shrink it.
- 06:35 Now add a morph transition to every slide, slide one,
- 06:39 slide two, slide three and leave the other options as they are.
- 06:45 If I've, for a slideshow, the first slide appears.
- 06:48 Click the mouse to fire the transition and notice how the transition calculates
- 06:53 where the objects is on slide two and it's size and position morphs to it.
- 06:58 Click again and it morphs to the next position on slide three.
- 07:02 Now let's move the image on slide three to a new position, click F5.
- 07:09 Click to transition the slide 2 to slide 3.
- 07:12 Wow, that is awesome.
- 07:14 So, please consider using slide transitions from subtle transitions to
- 07:19 group similar ideas together to more exciting transitions between separate
- 07:23 groups of ideas in your story.
- 07:25 On the Transitions tab of the ribbon is the transitions to this slide group.
- 07:30 Options to advance the slide on mouse click or automatically, as well as
- 07:34 the option to apply that particular transition to one or all slides.
- 07:37 And of course, the Effect options and buttons to Preview,
- 07:40 which allows you to preview the effect without going into slideshow mode.
- 07:45 Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions, there
- 07:48 are dynamic transitions where it is the object on the slide that appears to move.
- 07:53 Transitions work forwards and backwards, as well and they help increase
- 07:57 the continuity of a presentation but please don't overuse them.
- 08:01 It's often better to stick to a single style of transitions throughout your whole
- 08:04 presentation.
- 08:06 And of course, remember and play with the new morph transition that's available
- 08:11 in the Office 365 subscription of PowerPoint 2016.
- 08:14 It really is awesome.
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