Digitizing Your PDD

Animating the Presentation

To animate a single object on a PowerPoint slide

• Select the object.

• Choose SLIDE SHOW : Preset Animation.

• Select the animation effect you desire for the selected object.

You may find it useful to bring a layered object into a presentation one layer at a time, building it on-screen. To animate a layered object or to animate each object on a slide ,

• Choose SLIDE SHOW : Custom Animation. (You must be in Normal , Outline, or Slide View.)

• In the Custom Animation dialog box, each object is identified in the Check to animate slide objects list.

(If you don't remember what a particular object is, click the object's name in the list; that object appears selected in the preview window.

• Click in the object's checkbox to animate that object. It will be added to the Animation order list.

• To change the order that the animated objects appear, select the object in the Animation order list, then click the up or down arrow to move the object through the list.

• Choose whether the object appears only on a mouse click or after a specified number of seconds.

To choose other effects such as sound effects and how the object appears on the slide during the on-screen presentation, click on the Effects tab.

To animate text ,

• Click on the Effects tab.

• In the Introduce Text section, from the drop-down box, choose whether the text is introduced all at once, by word, or by letter.

To animate charts click the Chart Effects tab. You can choose to introduce the data by series, categories, or elements.

NOTE: Be careful of using too many effects in any single presentation because they soon become a detraction to rather than an enhancement of the presentation.

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