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Have you ever received a greeting card created in PowerPoint? Maybe I receive more of these than most people, but I get them several times a year.
A nice effect, especially for holiday and New Years’ greetings, is a swinging bell or pendulum. You use the Spin animation, but it has a problem for this type [...]
Occasionally, you may want to use PowerPoint animation for its entertainment value. An introduction that loops as the audience arrives is one good use. Another is to build excitement at the launch of a new product.
I usually recommend restraint when using animation, but when the purpose is entertainment, you have a lot more leeway. Insert [...]
It’s common to create a nice PowerPoint animation and then want to copy the animation to a different object. Unfortunately, PowerPoint doesn’t have that capability. While you can copy an existing animated object and get a duplicate, along with its animation, you can’t independently copy an animation to another existing object.
Here are some options:
Use Animation [...]
Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and one of the top presentation designers around. She is well-known for her incredible animations and special effects, which look as if they were done in Adobe Flash or a high-end animation program. They’re all done in PowerPoint.
She has created a stunning set of slides [...]
A great way to emphasize and draw attention to an object on a slide is to circle it.
Of course, the easy way is to insert a circle, and use the Appear or Fade entrance animation. Be sure to format the circle with no fill. I like to use a red outline and give it [...]
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