Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

You can apply custom animations to individual objects on your slide, from clip art and pictures to text placeholders. Animations include effects that make an object seem to appear on or disappear from your slide in Slide Show view in some fashion. For example, you might choose to have a heading appear letter by letter, or fly off your slide. The Motion Path category of animation allows you to actually have the object appear and move around a path you specify on your slide.

Add an Animation Effect to an Object

  1. Click the object to select it.

  2. Click the Animations tab.

  3. Click the Custom Animation button to display the Custom Animation task pane listing all animations for the currently displayed slide.

  4. Click the Add Effect button.

  5. Click a category of effect and then click an effect from the side menu that appears.

    Add an Animation Effect to an Object

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If you want the same custom animation applied to all objects of a certain type, for example, to all title objects on slides using a title and content layout, apply the custom animation in the Slide Master view.

Tip

Tip

Don’t overdo custom animations. If they play all the time your audience will become bored with them. Use them for special emphasis, at the start of a new section of your presentation, or to drive home a key point.

Modify Animation Settings

  1. Display a slide that has an object with an animation effect applied to it.

  2. Click the Animations tab.

  3. Click Custom Animation to display the Custom Animation task pane.

  4. Click on the animation you want to modify in the list.

    Modify Animation Settings

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    You can also click the arrow to the right of the effect in the list of effects and choose Effect Options from the menu that appears to make all these settings and more in a dialog box. If you select the option of starting an animation after another animation plays, you can use the Timing tab of this dialog box to specify a delay between the two animations, if you wish.

  5. Click the Start field and choose whether the effect plays when you click your mouse, along with any previous animation, or after the previous animation.

  6. Click the next field, which will have a different name depending on the effect you have chosen, and make the appropriate setting. For example, if your effect shrinks your text, this Font Size field lets you choose the font size to shrink to. If your effect causes the object to spin, this Amount field lets you choose how many degrees around the object should spin.

  7. Click the Speed field and choose how quickly the effect should play.

    Tip

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Tip

To remove an animation effect from an object, click on it in the list of effects in the Custom Animation task pane and click the Remove button.

Reorder Effects

  1. With the Custom Animation task pane displayed (click the Custom Animation button on the Animations tab), click on an effect in the list.

  2. Click Move Up to move the effect up in the list.

  3. Click Move Down to move the effect down in the list.

    Reorder Effects

  4. Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 to reorganize the list of effects in any way you like.

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If you reorganize slides, remember to check the Start setting you gave each. For example, if you wanted a slide to use a certain entrance effect that related to the contents of the slide before it, when you move that slide you may want to change the entrance effect to be relevant to its new predecessor.

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Note that you can apply more than one animation to any object. So you might have a heading shrink font size, spin around 360°, and then fly off the slide. If you do this, you can use the method described here to reorder the effects applied to that object.

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