Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Animations and Transitions

Name: Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Animations and Transitions
Author: Deanna Schmuck

Work with animations and transitions in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation

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Hello. In this lesson, you will learn about the purpose of slide transitions, how to add advanced slide transitions such as morph, how to customize slide transition effects. Slide transitions are the visual effects that occur when you move from one slide to the next. These transitions are intended to make your presentations more dynamic and more engaging. In PowerPoint for the web, there are several types of slide transitions to choose from. Some of the most common slide transitions include fade, which would have the slides gradually fading out and then into the next one. Push, which would look like the slide is being pushed off the screen to reveal the next slide. Wipe, the current slide gets wiped off the screen in one direction while sliding the next slide into view from the opposite direction and zoom, which zooms in on the current slide before then zooming out to reveal the next slide. So let's take a look at applying a transition. When we're ready to apply a transition, we want to go up to the menu bar and click on the Transitions tab. And here we have all of our transitions that are available to us. We usually have this more styles down arrow to pick and you can see a lot more transitions that are available to us. Some that we talked about and where I just said that they're the more common ones are fade and push and let's find wipe right next to it. Wipe and then zoom. Let's see if we can find zoom in here. Zoom is down here. So as I said, those are just some of the more common ones, but you clearly have a whole lot more that you can choose from. So let's go ahead and apply. Let's apply push. I'm going to click on push. Okay. And then we get exited out of that and go ahead and look in the slide thumbnail pane. Do you see next to the slide that we were on? There's a star. So I want you to notice that that there's a star in the slide thumbnail pane next to the slides, the slide or slides that happen to have a transition applied to them. So that's one way to note if there has been a transition added. Okay, let's run this whole slide show so that we can see the transition that was applied. Remember, there's nothing applied to the first one. We only have a transition applied to the second one. So let's go to slide show from beginning. Okay, so we saw a quick transition there. Let's go back to our transitions tab. The next thing I want to show you is we can control the duration here. So how long it takes for that transition to actually occur. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click up because I'm going to essentially slow it down a bit. I'm going to take that from occurring one second to about four seconds. And then let's go back to, let's go back to slide show from beginning and take a look at the difference. So let's slow it down quite a bit. I'm going to press the escape key to return to normal view. Okay, let's keep looking. We go back to transitions. I also want to look at this options button here. If I click on options, I get effect options. Now keep in mind, the options that you see here are going to change depending on the type of transition you chose. So this effect options will not always say from bottom from left, et cetera. It's going to change and we'll look at a couple of different ways that it changes. But this time, let's click from left. And again, let's slow that down a little bit. Let's take it all the way up to five seconds. And this time, let's also click apply to all. So what is that going to do? It should apply the transition to slide one as well as slide two. And here we go, we can tell. Do you see that star? Alright, let's go to slide show view and let's run from the beginning. Okay, notice this time this slide transition brought the text in from the left hand side. If you remember before, it came in from the bottom. I'm going to hit the escape key to return to normal view. Let's go ahead and apply a different transition. So you can see what a different transition looks like. Let's go back to the transitions tab. And we can open up, we can click this more button to open up all our transitions. Let's look at fade this time. So I will click fade. Let's look at options. As I said previously, remember, the effect options will change depending on the transition. So instead of from left and from the bottom, we have things like smoothly and through black. Let's pick through black. Let's slow it down a little bit by increasing that time. And let's click apply to all. And now let's go to slide show and run the slide show from the beginning so that we can see our transitions in action. Let's do one more. Let's go to transitions. Open our more button. And this time, let's do morph. Again, let's look at options. Again, different effect options depending on the transition. So let's, since we only have text so far, let's do words. Let's slow it down a little bit. And this time I'm not going to click apply to all. So what we're going to end up with is one slide transition on slide one. And then the morph that we just added is only on the active slide because we do not click apply to all. Let's go to slide show from beginning and look at the differences between the transition with slide one versus slide two. Very interesting. So you can have a lot of fun going in and looking through all these different transitions. We only looked at a few but you can see how many there are. And again, you can customize them a little bit by going into options and then working with speeding them up or slowing them down and working with either doing different transitions or applying it all. One last thing I'd like to say about that. If you have a formal presentation, I find that it's usually best to keep one slide transition throughout just for consistency. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I show you how to add and customize animations. Thank you for watching.

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Course Description

In these lessons, you will explore more features to enhance your slides. You will learn how to apply slide transitions and manipulate their effects. We’ll also explore ways to animate and order objects, and you’ll learn how to animate text in order to control what the audience views and when.

An essential feature of PowerPoint, Slide transitions help guide the audience's attention from one slide to another, creating a flow of information. Additionally, slide transitions can be used to mark breaks or shifts in topics. Object animations can bring elements to life, add emphasis, and enhance the overall impact of the content being delivered. Animating text enables the presenter to control what the audience sees and when. In this capacity, animating text can help the presenter to control the focus of the audience to further emphasize your point.

What You'll Learn

Differentiate between slide transitions and animations
Apply and customize slide transitions and manipulate their effects
Animate and order objects to add emphasis and enhance content impact
Animate text to control what the audience sees and when
Use advanced slide transitions to guide audience attention and mark topic shifts

Key Takeaways

Slide transitions help guide the audience's attention from one slide to another, creating a flow of information.
Slide transitions can be used to mark breaks or shifts in topics.
Object animations can bring elements to life, add emphasis, and enhance the overall impact of the content being delivered.
Animating text enables the presenter to control what the audience sees and when, helping focus attention to emphasize a point.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this PowerPoint Intermediate course cover?

It covers applying and manipulating slide transitions, animating and ordering objects, and animating text to control what the audience views and when. The lessons are Advanced Slide Transitions, Advanced Animation, and Animating Text.

What will I be able to do after taking this course?

You will be able to differentiate between transitions and animations, demonstrate proficiency in adding and customizing transitions and animations, and animate text to control what the audience sees.

What skills does this course help build?

It helps build skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Animation, Slide Shows, Adobe Animate, Adobe Presenter, and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) - PowerPoint.

Why are slide transitions and animations useful in a presentation?

Slide transitions help guide the audience's attention between slides and can mark breaks or shifts in topics, while object and text animations add emphasis, enhance impact, and let the presenter control what the audience sees and when.