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Create a cascading animation effect


To create a cascading effect of objects entering quickly one after another, animate several objects with the same entrance effect. Here, I use the Appear effect for bulleted text.

Use a Start setting of With Previous for all but the first object. Then, click the animation item’s down arrow in the Custom Animation task pane, and choose Show Advanced Timeline. You now see orange rectangles representing the time covered by each animation.

Starting from the second rectangle, drag each rectangle a little further to the right, so that each animation starts slightly after the previous one.

You can also click any item's down arrow and choose Timing to set the timing precisely in a text box.

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