Slide Transitions

Quick reference

• 00:04 It's time to switch gears a little bit now and talk about transitions in PowerPoint.
• 00:09 And I think that a lot of people confuse animations and transitions.
• 00:13 And the main difference really between the two is that animations
• 00:17 are applied to individual objects on your slide,
• 00:21 whereas transitions are applied to the actual slide.
• 00:24 It's how each slide transitions or moves to the next slide.
• 00:30 And there are a whole host of different effects that you can apply as transitions
• 00:33 to your slide deck.
• 00:34 So to fully explain to you exactly what transitions are if you're not aware,
• 00:39 then let me run this presentation.
• 00:41 So I'm going to press the F5 key to go into slideshow mode, and
• 00:45 just notice what happens when I move between my slides.
• 00:49 Pretty much nothing, it just moves quite harshly on to the next slide.
• 00:55 And what a transition allows you to do is control the way
• 00:59 you move from one slide to the next.
• 01:01 So maybe you want a nice fade effect into the next slide.
• 01:05 Maybe you want something a little bit more dramatic, maybe something spinning in or
• 01:10 swiping down.
• 01:11 Now when you're applying transitions to your presentation, you don't necessarily
• 01:15 have to apply transitions to every single slide in your presentation.
• 01:19 You can choose which slides you want to apply them to.
• 01:21 So that might be one, two, three, or the entire lot.
• 01:25 Now you'll find your transitions on the Transitions ribbon, and
• 01:29 it's this big group that you see there in the middle.
• 01:32 Now if we click the drop-down on the end, take a look at the gallery, you can see
• 01:36 that all of these transitions are divided down into three different categories.
• 01:40 We have Subtle, Exciting, and Dynamic Content.
• 01:44 Now the transitions contained within the Subtle group are pretty much what they
• 01:47 say on the tin.
• 01:47 They are a very, very subtle transition effect.
• 01:51 Exciting is a little bit more dramatic and
• 01:54 these transitions tend to be a little bit longer.
• 01:57 And then finally, we have Dynamic Content, which basically applies a transition
• 02:02 to the objects on your page and not the background.
• 02:05 Now which one you choose is entirely up to you.
• 02:08 I will say the same thing to you about transitions as what I tell people
• 02:12 about animations.
• 02:14 Make sure that whatever you pick is appropriate for your presentation and
• 02:18 appropriate for your audience.
• 02:20 Transitions should be there to make your presentation
• 02:23 look smooth as you move between different slides and
• 02:26 not to distract or detract from the actual content.
• 02:30 So with all that said, let's apply a couple of transitions.
• 02:33 They're super easy.
• 02:34 Let's see how they work.
• 02:35 Now when I'm applying transitions, I tend to prefer to work in slide sorter view
• 02:39 just so I can see all of my slides a little bit easier.
• 02:43 So up to View, and let's go into Slide Sorter.
• 02:46 Now I can even use my zoom slider at the bottom to zoom out a bit so
• 02:50 I can see all of my slides.
• 02:52 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select by holding down Shift,
• 02:56 the first three slides and I'm going to apply a transition to these.
• 03:00 So up to the Transitions tab and let's apply this first transition reveal.
• 03:08 And you get a little preview in slide sorter view as to what that transition is
• 03:12 going to look like.
• 03:15 So if I want to see it in action, let's press F5 again, and
• 03:19 you can see that transition effect.
• 03:22 Let's move on to the next slide.
• 03:24 We get that kind of fade out and then fade in.
• 03:27 So sometimes that can look a lot nicer than just harshly switching between your
• 03:32 slides.
• 03:32 Now, one thing to notice here is that when you do have a transition applied to
• 03:36 a slide, you're going to see a little star icon underneath that slide in slide
• 03:40 sorter view.
• 03:41 Now it's also worth noting that if you have animation applied to a slide,
• 03:45 you'll also see that star.
• 03:47 So if we scroll down, if you look at slide number 6,
• 03:50 we applied some animation to this slide and that also has a star.
• 03:55 Let's take a look at a couple more transitions.
• 03:58 I'm going to select the same three slides, and
• 04:00 I'm going to apply a different transition.
• 04:02 And this time, let's choose one of the Exciting transitions,
• 04:06 we're going to go for Peel Off.
• 04:08 And there you go.
• 04:09 You can see that in the little preview exactly what that's going to do.
• 04:11 Let's press F5 again to run our slideshow and
• 04:15 take a look at what that is going to look like.
• 04:19 Let's apply one more transition.
• 04:21 I'm going to select the same three slides, click my drop-down, and
• 04:25 this time let's choose Dynamic Content.
• 04:27 I'm going to go for Pan, and there we go, in the preview,
• 04:32 you can see that's going to swipe that content up.
• 04:35 Let's check what it looks like.
• 04:36 F5, and there we go.
• 04:42 So I'm not going to go through all of the transitions.
• 04:44 I will leave you to experiment with them.
• 04:47 If you just want something super basic that looks really nice and professional,
• 04:52 then I would always recommend the Fade option in the Subtle group.
• 04:56 And what I'm going to do here is apply that to all of my slides.
• 05:00 So Ctrl+A to select everything, up to my transitions, select Fade,
• 05:06 and now if I press F5, you can see that that is just a really nice subtle effect,
• 05:12 it takes away the harshness but it's not distracting at all.
• 05:17 Now another thing to note is that when you apply any of these transitions,
• 05:21 you do have some control as to how those transitions appear.
• 05:24 If you take a look to the right of your Transitions gallery,
• 05:28 you have an Effect Options drop-down.
• 05:31 And this will change depending on which transition you've selected.
• 05:34 So currently I have Fade selected.
• 05:37 If I Ctrl+A to select all,
• 05:39 I have the option of that fade running smoothly or fading through black.
• 05:45 If I was to select something else, so let's go for Wipe,
• 05:50 which kind of wipes it in coming from the right-hand side.
• 05:55 When I click on Effect Options,
• 05:57 I can choose which direction I want that effect to wipe in from.
• 06:01 So Effect Options is going to change depending on the transition you have
• 06:05 selected, so definitely worth having a little experiment.
• 06:08 And if you decide that you no longer want any transitions applied to your slides,
• 06:13 select them all, click the drop-down, and
• 06:15 the first option that you have is None, which is essentially going to remove all
• 06:20 of those transitions from your presentation.
• 06:23 Now I'm actually going to put that fade transition back on again
• 06:27 because that is my favorite.
• 06:29 And then let's jump back to normal view where we can carry on editing.
• 06:33 Notice in the slides pane on the left-hand side, we can still see those little stars.
• 06:38 So I know that I have transitions applied, but
• 06:40 that is pretty much all there is to transitions.
• 06:43 Have a little play around with them, see which ones you like, and
• 06:47 I'll see you in the next lesson.

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