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To introduce a panel at a panel discussion or employees to a group, you can create a slide with their photos, name, title, and so on.
Because you want to speak about each person in turn, you can use animation to display each person’s photo and name when you click. Here is one approach you can [...]
A good use of animation is to show change or contrast. For example, you can make a winter scene disappear as a summer scene appears, to show the difference. At the bottom of this tip, I have some links to other tips on animation.
In previous versions of PowerPoint the fade transition didn’t look very good, [...]
If you missed it, we had a great webinar last week on Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques. It was jam packed with 10 techniques and attendees also got a 14-page handout with detailed instructions and the presentation itself, containing all the techniques!
You can now purchase the recording for $24.95, or buy all 5 webinars [...]
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 [...]
You may find it useful to animate the elements of a chart or table. For example, you may want to discuss sales of one product throughout all the quarters of the year before going on to the next product. Or you may want to explain a table row by row.
To add animation to charts, follow [...]
Triggers are a way to cause an animation by clicking an object. Clicking the object triggers the animation. For example, you can click a bar in a chart to trigger the display of a more detailed explanation, as shown here.
Using a Trigger to Cause an Animation
When I clicked the 2nd Qtr bar, the text [...]
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