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Sigh! Although I write about communicating in a visual manner all the time (see 5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers, for example), sometimes it becomes clear that certain presenters will never get there. I’m working with the organizer of a conference for physicians. The organizer has asked them all to use PowerPoint, [...] If you have text animation that displays one bullet of text at a time, you may have noticed that if you right-click and choose Previous in slide show view, you just go to the previous animation step, rather than the previous slide. If someone in the audience asks about the previous slide, it’s [...] John Ringold e-mailed me asking how to enlarge part of an image that is encircled within an oval. Here’s a slide with a map on Long Island. The idea is to magnify the section inside the oval. a map on Long Island I came up with two techniques. Contest! If you can [...] Glen Millar, of Glen Millar Communications, introduced this animation/graphics technique at the PowerPoint Live conference. He called it the False Background. It isn’t really a false background, but uses the technique of giving an AutoShape (shape, in 2007) the same background as the slide. You can then animate the AutoShape/shape, or layer it, [...] In my Putting Flash animation in PowerPoint tip, I explain how to bring a Flash movie into PowerPoint, but how about bringing a PowerPoint presentation into Adobe Flash? You can’t do it directly, but you can save the files in WMF format and import them into Flash. This method does not preserve any [...] You’re familiar with drop-down menus in software applications and on websites. You can create a drop-down menu in PowerPoint, too. The main menu button is used as a trigger, so that when you click it, the animation starts. If you want the dropped-down menu to disappear for the next use, the method is a [...] You can create the illusion of growth and motion using the technique of frame animation. Frame animation duplicates the same object in slightly different positions or sizes and then quickly displays one after the other. This is how old-fashioned movie animation was done. Remember, though, that this process was very labor-intensive. Good animation is [...] A while ago, I asked my subscribers what they want from this site, and the responses were contradictory. Some of you wanted basics and others wanted advanced techniques. In this tutorial, I’ll provide a basic tutorial of animation along with best practices that even advanced users should find valuable. Happily, animation in PowerPoint [...] |
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