Animating Items on a Slide

Animation can make an onscreen slide presentation come alive with some very professional-looking effects. You can animate the appearance of items on your slide with just a few clicks. And, when you’re presenting your slide show, you start the animation simply by clicking your mouse.

Animate the Text

  1. Click the title text box to select it.

  2. On the Animations tab, click the Animate list box, and select the type of animation you want for the title.

  3. Click the text box that contains the body text of the slide.

  4. Click the Animate list box again, and select the animation you want for the body text:

    1. All At Once to have all the content of the slide animated and to have it all appear at the same time

    2. By 1st Level Paragraphs to have each first-level paragraph and all its accompanying paragraphs appear one at a time

    Animate the Text

Tip

Tip

When you select an animation, it runs for you so that you can preview it. To see it again, click the Preview button on the Animations tab.

Animate a SmartArt Graphic

  1. Click the SmartArt graphic to select it.

  2. Click the Animate list box, and select the animation you want:

    1. As One Object to have all the content animated as a single unit and to have it all appear at the same time

    2. All At Once to have each element of the graphic animated and have all the elements appear at the same time

    3. One By One to have each element animated and to have the elements appear one at a time in consecutive order

    4. By Level At Once to have all the elements in the first level animated and to have them appear together, followed by all the elements of the second level, and so on

    5. By Level One By One to have each element in the first level animated and to have the elements appear one at a time in consecutive order, followed by each element of the second level, and so on

    Animate a SmartArt Graphic

Tip

Tip

You can animate a single shape, a table, or a picture. If you’re including a chart in your presentation, you can animate individual data series or individual categories, or you can animate the chart as a single item.

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