Microsoft PowerPoint 2021: Creating and Adding Animations

Name: Microsoft PowerPoint 2021: Creating and Adding Animations
Author: Erin Sullivan

Learn how to use animations in PowerPoint to create more dynamic and interactive presentations

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Hi, my name is Erin. And in these next lessons, we are going to be looking at creating, and adding animations to your PowerPoint presentations. When we are looking at animation. Anything in a slide can be animated. Graphics or text. So in this first slide, if we wanted to animate the text Flower Club, we would just click on the text, and have it selected. Then we need to go on the ribbon to the animations tab, and then we see a gallery of options in the animation group. Over to the right, you will see a More button. If you click on the More button, you will see all of the effects in that gallery. There are entrance effects, emphasis effects, exit effects and motion path effects. In addition to the effects that are shown in the gallery, you'll see there are even more of each of those types of effects, and the motion paths available. So for this particular text that we have chosen, we are going to use one of the entrance effects. I'm just going to choose Grow and Turn. One of the nice things about PowerPoint is that when you choose one of the effects, you get a preview right on the slide. So I chose the effect Grow and Turn, and if I wanted to choose a different effect, I will get a sample of each of those effects as I choose it. If we move to the second slide in our presentation, we have some more things that we can use animation on. In addition to just the title, we also have different text boxes or objects that we can animate. So we have the title Agenda, and I'm gonna select that, and I'm gonna choose an entrance effect for Agenda, and I'm gonna choose the Fly In effect. And you'll see that it is numbered one. That is the first animation on this slide. Now, I'm going to choose the text below where it says introduction. You'll notice there is an entire text box here of items. we have introduction, primary goals, areas of growth. All of those are selected, and when I choose an animation, it is going to apply to each of the items in that text box. So those items are each animated. So those will be numbered two through six. So I only had to select on the text box to animate all of the items within it. Now, the animation also has the motion paths, and if we choose a motion path, and you can see there's a straight line or an arc or turn or loops. Or we can do a custom path. These paths will move the word in that shape or the object. Let's take a look at how that works. I'm gonna select, for example, the letter A here. I'm gonna click on the more button, and choose the motion path of loops. So the text or object is gonna move along this path before it rests where it initially started. So you see the path there on the side, loop that it did and then it stopped. So if I wanted, I could even adjust this path a little bit, so it looped over into the second half of the slide. Maybe I don't like the way that looks, so I'm gonna make the loop a little bit smaller. Then I can click on the preview button, and previewing all of the animation in this slide. And we can see that the loop is gonna be the last one, and it was a little bit smaller that time. It followed the path that I created there. When you are watching this slide in Slideshow View, each of these animation items are going to advance based on the timing group on the animations tab. And if you see on the animations tab, and the timing group. Right now, what is selected is number seven. I can tell that's what is selected because it is highlighted here in orange. And so this timing has to do with that. And right now it starts on click, which means that whenever I click number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and then 7 will animate in my presentation. Let's take a look at that. We're gonna start our presentation. Here was our first slide. Nothing happens until I click my mouse, then the animation for the text appears. I click my mouse to advance. Nothing is visible. So this text will come in because the effect we chose was entrance effects. So those different effects also have to do with whether or not the text is staying visible on the presentation or if it is entering the slide or exiting the slide. Or in the case of the A, just following a path. So if you had chosen an emphasis effect for example, the text would be there when the slide first appeared, and it would just emphasis when you clicked on it and exit. Once you click, that text would disappear. So those are the different types of effects that you can have on your slides during a presentation. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I'll show you the animation pane and timing.

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Course Description

Knowing how to use animations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 can help your audience feel more engaged, as well as add another level of personalization to your presentations. But what components can you animate in PowerPoint 2021? And how can you create an animation that is timed well with the other content on the slide? By learning how to properly utilize animations in your presentations, you can make them more memorable and dynamic for your audience.

In this course on Microsoft PowerPoint 2021: Creating and Adding Animations, you will learn how to properly use and edit animations in PowerPoint 2021. We will explore how to apply and customize different animation effects, create motion paths, and use the animation pane and timing options to manage and control animations. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of animations and how to use them in PowerPoint 2021.

What You'll Learn

Apply and customize the different types of animation effects available in PowerPoint 2021
Create motion paths to control how objects move on a slide
Use the animation pane and timing options to manage and control animations in a presentation
Apply advanced animation techniques to create interactive and sophisticated presentations
Edit animations to time them well with other content on the slide

Key Takeaways

Animations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 can help an audience feel more engaged and add personalization to presentations.
Properly utilizing animations can make presentations more memorable and dynamic for the audience.
PowerPoint 2021 offers different animation effects that can be applied and customized, including motion paths.
The animation pane and timing options are used to manage and control animations within a presentation.
Advanced animation techniques can be used to create interactive and sophisticated presentations.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to properly use and edit animations in PowerPoint 2021, including how to apply and customize different animation effects, create motion paths, and use the animation pane and timing options to manage and control animations.

What topics does this course cover?

The course covers exploring animation effects and paths, using the animation pane and timing, and advanced animation techniques.

What will I be able to do by the end of the course?

By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of animations and how to use them in PowerPoint 2021.

What skills does this course help build?

This course focuses on Microsoft PowerPoint, animations, and PowerPoint animation skills.