Slide animations and transitions

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

Adding animations to your PowerPoint slides can help to capture the attention of your audience and highlight key points in
your content. They can also help to ensure a smooth transition between your topics.

When a new slide appears, your audience tries to read the slide. If you start talking immediately, they may miss your
explanations! Adding some movements on your slides helps your audience to be aware and motivated to your presentation.
However, using too many animations can be distracting so be careful.

Animation scheme types

Using animation schemes is the easiest way to add effects to your slides. A preset animation scheme ties together several
different animation effects and applies it to your selected slide, i.e., both animations and slide transitions.

Subtle Moderate Exciting

Appear Ascend Big Title
Appear and dim Descend Bounce
Fade in all Compress Credits
Fade in one by one Elegant Ellipse motion
Fade in and dim Rise up Float
Faded Wipe Show in reverse Neutron
Faded zoom Spin Pinwheel
Brush on underline Unfold Title arc
Dissolve in Zoom Boomerang and exit
Flash bulb Grow and exit
Highlights Tread and exit
Random Bars
Wipe

Animation Schemes
1. Select the slide in which you wish to apply an animation scheme
(If you are intending to apply a preset animation to all slides, select any slide.)

2. Slide Show > Animation Schemes

Tip: Task Pane

This option is also available from the task

pane. (If you don’t see it, View > Task Pane)

Task Pane > Slide Design – Animation

Schemes

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 3. Select animation scheme
(Each time you select a preset scheme you should see a preview of the animation effect on your slide)

Click an animation scheme and see the preview!

Applying Animation Schemes to all slides

Click Apply to All Slides after you apply an animation scheme to any slide.

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Removing Animation Schemes
Select No Animation

Custom animations
As well as applying preset animations to your slides, you can also use custom animations to define exactly which animation
you want to use, for which object, at what point.

Custom animation type

There are three main types of animation.

How the object comes onto the slide

The animation that happens to the object when it’s already on the slide.

How the object disappears from the slide

1. Select an object or placeholder on your slide

Tip: Selecting a placeholder / object

Click on the borderline, not on the small white

circle. Your mouse pointer should have four
arrows when you mouse over to the borderline.

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2. Slide Show > Custom Animation.

Tip: Task Pane

This option is also available from the task

pane. (If you don’t see it, View > Task Pane)

Task Pane > Custom Animation

3. Click Add Effect on the task pane > choose animation type: Entrance, Emphasis or Exit

2. Choose an effect

Click one of them to select an effect

More Effects shows you the full list of

animations. See next page

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 Here are all effects for

Click an effect and see the preview. Once you

find which one you would like, click OK.

Scroll down to see the rest of the effects.

As long as this option is ticked, you can see the animation preview.

4. Done!

NOTICE:
A number appears next to the custom effect
object. This is the order of your custom
animations when you do a slide show.

NOTICE: Check on the Task Pane!

Your animation details also appear on the task
pane.

Repeat steps and create custom animations on

your slides.

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Applying the same animation and effects to multiple objects/placeholders.
1. Select all objects/placeholders that you wish to apply/modify animations on.

Tip: Selecting multiple objects together

Hold SHIFT key when you select

objects/placeholders. SHIFT key keeps your
selection sequentially.

2. Apply custom animation

NOTICE: Animation order number

The second custom animation number appears

on both objects that you selected.

These two act at the same time. Animation number is 2.

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 A star mark appears
next to the slide that
has animations.

Modifying animation
You may wish to change the type of effect after you apply an animation.

1. Select the animation to be modified.

NOTE: Double arrow pointer

Usually when the mouse pointer changes to two

arrows, it means you can resize an object.

However, when you are selecting animation from

the task pane in MS PowerPoint, the mouse pointer
becomes two vertical arrows. Don’t worry – just
click on the animation you would like to select. It
will be selected.

2. Click Change

NOTICE:
The Add Effect button changes to the Change
button.

3. Apply an animation as normal

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Changing how the effect starts and speed etc
1. Select the effect to be changed from the task pane

2. Click the drop box for each setting.

Click the drop lists here

Deleting animation
1. Select animation that you wish to delete from the task pane

One click

2. Press the DELETE key or click Remove from the task pane

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Slide Transitions
Slide transitions are basically animations that are applied to a whole slide rather than the individual objects within a slide.

1. Select any of your slides

2. Slide Show > Slide Transition

Tip: Task Pane

Task pane appears on the right side of the

screen. This is handy while working on MS
PowerPoint. You may wish to keep it on the
screen.

To view it, View > Task Pane. Click the drop box
on the top of the task pane > Slide Transition

3. Task pane appears to the right side of the screen. Click on each transition to see a preview of the effect.

Task pane

If you don’t wish to use a slide transition,

you can select No Transition.

(1) Choose a transition

(1)

(2) You can change its speed

- slow, medium, fast (2)

(3) On mouse click – next slide appears after one click

Automatically after – next slide appears (3
automatically after a set time

(4) You can apply the transition (4)

to all of your slides.

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