Animations

=Tutorial on How to Get Animation on a PowerPoint Presentation=

The purpose of the page is to help individuals how to be more creative when presentation a side show. Having different types of animations from slide to slide makes ones presentation look much more effective. This page will show you not only, how to add animation from slide to slide; however, this will also show you have to adding animation from bullet to bullet.

===How to create a slide show with animations on each slide and bullets.===

Slide Animations
1. Put all your information into your slide show.

2. To add animation on each slide you will have to click on the Animations tab -> than in the Transition to this slide area you can hit the drop down arrow in Transition Scheme -> than once selected the effect than you can chose how fast it will go and if one want to add sound in the slide.

3. You can apply that same animation you have just chosen to all the slides by hitting Apply To All button in the Transition to This slide area. If you want different animation for each slide than you will have to select their animations individually.

Text Animations
4. To get animations between each bullet in the slide you will need to look in the Animations area and select Animate which will lead to a drop do arrow and you can select which ever command you would like to. You can choose to do all the bullets at once or one by one.

5. Another way you can animate bullets one by one is to hit Custom Animation in the Animation area. A Custom Animation window will appear on the right side of the presentation. From there you can select which bullet and hit Add Effect in the Custom Animation window and select the animation on that bullet.

6. There are many to choose from and you can also preview what you have chosen for that bullet by hitting Play in the Custom Animation window.

7. You can also change how it starts, the font the bullet is in and the Duration, by hitting the drop down arrow and hitting the command you like.

8. Once your animations are set up it is time to view them; therefore, hit the Slide Show tab -> than click on From Beginning and you can view your slide show. Your presentation will have all the animation needed for a presentation to attract people.

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