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Create an animated announcement

November 16, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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 […]

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Animate with transitions for cool effects

January 12, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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, […]

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Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides

March 8, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

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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. […]

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Use transitions and animation to emphasize change or contrast

August 16, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

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 […]

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Animate an image from color to black & white

October 10, 2008 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Backgrounds & color, Design, Images Tagged With: animation, black & white, Design, graphics, images, NCIS, PowerPoint, powerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2010, presentations, transitions

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