By the end of the lesson, you should be able to:

• Animate slides

Animating slides

PowerPoint has a feature that allows you to add sound and movement to text, graphics, charts, and other objects in your slide presentation. For example, you could have text fly in with a laser sound effect.

To add animation:

• Display the slide you want to animate in Normal view .
• Choose Slide Show Custom Animation from the menu bar.
• The Custom Animation dialog box appears.

• Click the Effects tab. If you're adding movement to a chart, click the Chart Effects tab.
• In the Check to animate slide objects box, click inside the small box that names the object or text you want to animate. In the picture above, Text 1 and Text 3 have been checked.
• In the Entry animation and sound list box and Introduce text list box, choose the options you want. In the picture above, Fly and From Left, No Sound , and All at once have been chosen.

Order and timing

To control the order and timing of animation:

• Click the Order and Timing tab in the Custom Animation dialog box.
• To change the order of animation, choose the object you want to change under Animation order . Click the up or down arrow to move the object higher or lower on the list.
• To start animation by clicking the text or object, click On mouse click . To start the animation automatically, click Automatically and choose the number of seconds you want between animations.
• To preview your animation, click Preview .

Quickly adding animation

PowerPoint offers an easier way to add animation to your presentation.

To quickly add basic animation to an object on a slide:

• Display the slide in Normal view and select the object .
• Choose Slide Show Preset Animation , and click the option you want.
• To undo the preset animation, choose Slide Show Animation Off .

Challenge!

• Open the title slide of your text of your Terrific Tool Company presentation.
• Animate the title.
• Save your changes.