Are you looking for an eye catching way to keep your audience interested in your PowerPoint presentations?
Animations are grouped into four categories.
Entrance effects, Exit effects, Emphasis effects, and Motion Paths.
The green marker along the motion path marks the beginning of the path and the red marks the end.
The effects can be rotated by clicking and the bar near the center of the effect.
you could display additional effects by choosing one of the options at the bottom.
This will pop up a Change Effect window.
Just as we did with the first effect, you could hover over to get a live preview.
Click to apply the effect.
The animation effects will happen in the order they are applied.
Animation PaneYou can view a list of the animations applied to a slide by opening the Animation Pane.
choose the Animation Pane button from the Advanced Animation group to display the Animation Pane on the right.
You’ll see that each animation effect in the animation pane has an assigned number to the left.
Timing Animation EffectsYou can change when your animation starts to play.
By default it is On Click.
With Previous starts at the same time as the previous animation and After Previous starts after the last animation.
you’re free to also edit the duration that the animations plays and also set a delay.
The available options will vary by effect and not all animation effects will have Effect Options options.
Under Enhancements, you could add sound effects to your animation.
When you’re finished click OK.
Animating TextAnimating Text works the same as animating an object.
Simply select your text box and choose an animation.
Text does have some different Effect Options.
Some animations, such as the Fly In animation, will have directional options.
Testing Your AnimationsClick on the Preview button at any time to test how your animations look.
you might also grab the Play button on the Animation Pane.
Another cool way to spice up your PPT 2010 presentations is toadd video from the web.
What tips do you guys have for making your PowerPoint presentations more interesting?
