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Animating Text and Objects

There are four types of animations in PowerPoint: entrances, emphases, exits, and motion paths. Entrances control how objects enter a slide, emphases occur while objects are on a slide, exits control how objects leave a slide, and motion paths move objects along predetermined paths. Users can apply animations by selecting objects and choosing effects from the Animations tab. Multiple animations can be added to objects and reordered or copied between objects. The Animation Pane allows viewing and managing all effects on a slide.

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Animating Text and Objects

There are four types of animations in PowerPoint: entrances, emphases, exits, and motion paths. Entrances control how objects enter a slide, emphases occur while objects are on a slide, exits control how objects leave a slide, and motion paths move objects along predetermined paths. Users can apply animations by selecting objects and choosing effects from the Animations tab. Multiple animations can be added to objects and reordered or copied between objects. The Animation Pane allows viewing and managing all effects on a slide.

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Animating Text and Objects

The four types of animations


There are several animation affects you can choose from, and they are organized into four
types.

 Entrance: These control how the object enters the slide. For example,
with the Bounce animation the object will "fall" onto the slide and then
bounce several times.

 Emphasis: These animations occur while the object is on the slide,


often triggered by a mouse click. For example, you can set an object
to spin when you click the mouse.
 Exit: These control how the object exits the slide. For example, with
the Fade animation the object will simply fade away.

 Motion Paths: These are similar to Emphasis effects, except the


object moves within the slide along a predetermined path, like a circle.

To apply an animation to an object:

1. Select the object you want to animate.

2. On the Animations tab, click the More drop-down arrow in the Animation group.
3. A drop-down menu of animation effects will appear. Select the desired effect.

4. The effect will apply to the object. The object will have a small number next to it to show
that it has an animation. In the Slide pane, a star symbol also will appear next to the
slide.
At the bottom of the menu, you can access even more effects.

Effect options

Some effects will have options you can change. For example, with the Fly In effect you can
control which direction the object comes from. These options can be accessed from the Effect
Options command in the Animation group.
To remove an animation:

1. Select the small number located next to the animated object.

2. Press the Delete key. The animation will be deleted.


Animations are best used in moderation. Adding too many animations can make your
presentation look a little silly and can even be distracting to your audience. Consider using
mostly subtle animations, or not using animations at all.

Working with animations

To add multiple animations to an object:


If you select a new animation from the the menu in the Animation group, it will replace the
object's current animation. However, you'll sometimes want to place more than one animation on
an object, like an Entrance and an Exit effect. To do this, you'll need to use the Add
Animation command, which will allow you to keep your current animations while adding new
ones.

1. Select an object.

2. Click the Animations tab.

3. In the Advanced Animation group, click the Add Animation command to view the
available animations.
4. Select the desired animation effect.

5. If the object has more than one effect, it will have a different number for each effect. The
numbers indicate the order in which the effects will occur.

To reorder the animations:

1. Select the number of the effect you want to change.


2. From the Animations tab, click the Move Earlier or Move Later commands to change the
ordering.

To copy animations with the Animation Painter:


In some cases, you may want to apply the same effects to more than one object. You can do this
by copying the effects from one object to another using the Animation Painter. In our example,
we want to copy an animation from one slide to another because they have similar layouts.

1. Click the object that has the affects you want to copy. In our example, we'll click our
answer text.

2. From the Animations tab, click the Animation Painter command.

3. Click the object you want to copy the effects to. In our example, we'll click the answer
text on the next slide. Both objects now have the same effect.
To preview animations:

Any animation affects you have applied will show up when you play the slide show. However,
you can also quickly preview the animations for the current slide without viewing the slide show.

1. Navigate to the slide you want to preview.


2. From the Animations tab, click the Preview command. The animations for the current
slide will play.

The Animation Pane


The Animation Pane allows you to view and manage all of the effects that are on the current
slide. You can modify and reorder effects directly from the Animation Pane, which is especially
useful when you have several effects.

To open the Animation Pane:

1. From the Animations tab, click the Animation Pane command.

2. The Animation Pane will open on the right side of the window. It will show all of the
effects for the current slide in the order in which they will appear.
If you have several animated objects, it may help to rename the objects before reordering them in
the Animation Pane. You can rename them in the Selection Pane. To open the Selection Pane,
click an object, then from the Format tab click Selection Pane. Double-click the name of an
object to rename it.

To reorder effects from the Animation Pane:

1. On the Animation Pane, click and drag an effect up or down.


2. The effects will reorder themselves.

To preview effects from the Animation Pane:

1. From the Animation Pane, click the Play button.

2. The effects for the current slide will play. On the right side of the Animation Pane, you
will be able to see a timeline that shows the progress through each effect.
If the timeline is not visible, click the drop-down arrow for an effect, then select Show
Advanced Timeline.

To change an effect's start option:


By default, an effect starts playing when you click the mouse during a slide show. If you
have multiple effects, you will need to click multiple times to start each effect
individually. However, by changing the start option for each effect, you can have effects
that automatically play at the same time or one after the other.

1. From the Animation Pane, select an effect. A drop-down arrow will appear next to the
effect.
2. Click the drop-down arrow and select one of the three desired start options. Start on
Click will start the effect when the mouse is clicked, Start With Previous will start the
effect at the same time as the previous effect, and Start After Previous will start the
effect when the previous effect ends.

When you preview the animations, all of the effects will play through automatically. To
test effects that are set to Start on Click, you will need to play the slide show.

The Effect Options dialog box

From the Animation Pane, you can access the Effect Options dialog box, which contains more
advanced options you can use to fine tune your animations.

To open the Effect Options dialog box:

1. From the Animation Pane, select an effect. A drop-down arrow will appear next to the
effect.
2. Click the drop-down arrow, then select Effect Options.

3. The Effect Options dialog box will appear. Click the drop-down menus and select the
desired enhancement. You can add a sound to the animation, add an
effect after the animation is over, or animate text in a different sequence.
Some effects have additional options you can change. These will vary depending on which effect
you have selected.

To change the effect timing:

1. From the Effect Options dialog box, select the Timing tab.

2. From here, you can add a delay before the effect starts, change the duration of the effect,
and control whether the effect repeats.

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