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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 [...] PresenterMedia is a company newly created by some designers who’ve been around for a while. They create PowerPoint templates, animations, and 3D artwork. Here you see the page on their site that lists templates. I asked co-owner and artist Art Holden a few questions about the new company and its products. Q: Please tell [...] 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 [...] Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, “I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus [...] 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 [...] It’s common to create a nice PowerPoint animation and then want to copy the animation to a different object. Unfortunately, PowerPoint versions before 2010 don’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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] On the popular TV show, NCIS, scenes end with a still shot that starts in color and then becomes black & white. In a discussion on the LinkedIn group, Great Communicators! Effective Presenting & PowerPoint, this technique was suggested as a fun section transition for a presentation. Here’s how the technique looks:
[...] Whether for work or play, quiz games are fun. Jeopardy-like games or just quizzes can teach and entertain at the same time. (Note that “Jeopardy” is a trademark of Sony Pictures, and shouldn’t be used without permission.) You can use exit animation and a trigger to create the quiz so that when you click [...] |
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