Microsoft PowerPoint XP

Using Animation

Animation refers to the movement and sound accompanying text or slides as they are introduced. Using animation with your bulleted lists and slides can often add excitement to your presentation by displaying text at crucial moments and making smooth transitions between topics. You can use preset animations or customize your own animation to achieve your goals.

The Animation Schemes Task Pane
Adding Animation to Slides
Custom Animation
Adding Transitions to Slides

The Animation Schemes Task Pane

The Animation Schemes task pane provides easy application of animation effects to your slides.

To open the Animation Schemes Task Pane:

From the Slide Show menu, select Animation Schemes...
OR
From the Other Task Panes pull-down list, select Slide Design - Animation Schemes

The Slide Design - Animation Schemes task pane appears.

The animation schemes are organized by type of animation: subtle, moderate or exciting. Each scheme includes a combination of a specific animation for the title of the slide and the body of the slide and maybe even a slide transition. To see what is being applied to these elements of the slide, simply hold your mouse over the desired choice and the alternate text will tell you what effects will be being applied for that scheme. You may also get a preview by clicking the effect.

Subtle	Moderate	Exciting
Appear	Ascend	Big Title
Appear and dim	Descend	Bounce
Fade in all	Compress	Credits
Fade in one by one	Elegant	Ellipse motion
Fade in and dim	Rise up	Float
Faded Wipe	Show in reverse	Neutron
Faded zoom	Spin	Pinwheel
Brush on underline	Unfold	Title arc
Dissolve in	Zoom	Boomerang and exit
Flash bulb		Grow and exit
Highlights		Tread and exit
Random Bars
Wipe

Adding Animation to Slides

Adding animation to your bulleted lists and slides can increase interest and excitement by displaying text at crucial moments and making smooth transitions between topics. You can add animation while in the Normal or Slide Sorter views. For an alternate method of adding animation, refer to Custom Animation.

Adding Animation to Slides: In the Normal View

With your presentation open, from the View menu, select Normal
Select the slide to which you want to apply animation
Open the Slide Design - Animation Schemes task pane
Click the desired animation scheme you want to apply
For a list, refer to The Animation Schemes Task Pane.
To have your selection automatically preview when you make a selection, select AutoPreview
OPTIONAL: Repeat steps 2-4 for each slide to which you want to apply animation
To have the selected animation scheme applied to all the slides in your presentation, click APPLY TO ALL SLIDES
To remove animation, select No Animation

Adding Animation to Slides: In the Slide Sorter View

With your presentation open, from the View menu, select Slide Sorter
The Slide Sorter toolbar appears.
NOTE: If the Slide Sorter toolbar is not displayed, from the View menu, select Toolbars » Slide Sorter.
Select the slide to which you want to apply animation
From the Slide Sorter toolbar, click DESIGN
The Slide Design task pane appears.
At the top of the Slide Design task pane, click Animation Schemes
The Slide Design - Animation Schemes task pane appears.
Click the desired animation scheme you want to apply
For a list of available schemes, refer to The Animation Schemes Task Pane.
OPTIONAL: To have your selection automatically preview when you make a selection, select AutoPreview
OPTIONAL: Repeat steps 2-4 for each slide to which you want to apply animation
To have the selected animation scheme applied to all the slides in your presentation, click APPLY TO ALL SLIDES
To remove animation, select No Animation

Custom Animation

If you want an effect not listed in the Animation Schemes list, the Custom Animation option may help.

With your presentation open, from the View menu, select Normal
Click the mouse within the slide you wish to animate
From the Slide Show menu, select Custom Animation...
OR
From the Other Task Panes pull-down list, select Custom Animation
The Custom Animation task pane appears and each line of text appears with a number before it.
In the selected slide, select the area or text box you would like to animate
From the Add Effect pull-down list, select desired effect from the submenus
To remove custom animation, select desired area and click REMOVE
From the Start pull-down list, select when you want the slide animation to be activated
From the Speed pull-down list, select what speed you want applied to the animation
OPTIONAL: To have your selection automatically preview when you make a selection, select AutoPreview
Repeat steps 4-8 for each object you wish to apply animation to

Adding Transitions to Slides

From the Slide Show menu, select Slide Transition...
OR
From the Other Task Panes pull-down list, select Slide Transition

OR
In the Slide Sorter View, from the Slide Sorter toolbar, click TRANSITION
The Slide Transition task pane appears.
Under Apply to selected slides, select your desired transition
Under Modify transition, from the Speed and Sound pull-down lists, make the desired selections
OPTIONAL: To have your selection automatically preview when you make a selection, select AutoPreview
OPTIONAL: To have the selected animation scheme applied to all the slides in your presentation, click APPLY TO ALL SLIDES
To remove a transition from your slide, select No Transition