In this article, we’ll run through the nuts and bolts of these useful PowerPoint tools.
What Are Animations?
For example, you might apply an entrance animation to some text, followed by an emphasis animation.
What Are Transitions?
Before you add any animations, click “Animation Pane” in the Animations tab on the ribbon.
Now, choose the item you want to animate.
Then, choose the down arrow in the Animations tab, and choose the appropriate effect.
You will then see an animation card in the Animation Pane for the effect you just added.
Finally, to remove an animation, hit the trash icon on the appropriate animation card.
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you’re free to also animate paragraphs of text within a text box.
To do so, grab the relevant text, and follow the same process.
you might then select individual slides to make further adjustments if needed.
Any objects on the first slide but not the second will simply fade away during the morph transition.
Similarly, any new items on the second slide will appear gradually.
you could also use this transition effect to zoom into an image or fade an image into the background.
