In a recent Power Pointers Quarter Hour, we had a lot of fun with transitions. (If you aren’t a part of that program, you’re missing a lot of great training–check it out here.) One that I thought I’d share with you is using the Curtains transition for an animated announcement. This transition was new for […]
Animate with transitions for cool effects
Want to create cool animations that are amazingly easy? Try using transitions! Most people don’t think of transitions as a kind of animation, but they are. Transitions are animations between slides — that introduce a new slide. Some of the transitions are quite interesting, and PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 introduced some great new ones. Ordinarily, […]
Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides
Here’s a common scenario. You have a table of Excel data and you need to discuss it in detail at a meeting. But there’s no way it will fit on one slide. What are your options? You could print out the data so people can see it up close. I recommend doing this when necessary. […]
Use transitions and animation to emphasize change or contrast
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 […]
Animate an image from color to black & white
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: Here are […]
