Animating & Sequencing Your Presentation

Animating your PowerPoint presentations is a great way to capture the attention of your students. There are three general types of animation in PowerPoint:

• Basic Schemes
• Slide Transitions
• Custom Animation

Basic Schemes

Another name for Basic Schemes could have been Animation Schemes. PowerPoint allows for users to pick out an existing animation series that will adapt itself to your presentation. Simply follow the instructions below:

1. Open PowerPoint
2. Open your PowerPoint file
3. Click on Slide Show > Animation Schemes
4. Choose an Animation Scheme (if Auto Preview is checked at the bottom of the Animation Scheme panel, you will be able to see a preview of the animation every time you click on an animation title)
5. Click Apply To All Slides

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Slide Transitions

One can also use slide transitions for use between slides. This will only affect the moments in between the last portion of a slide and the next slide coming.

1. Open PowerPoint
2. Open your PowerPoint presentation
3. Click on Slide Show > Slide Transitions
4. Choose a Custom Transition (if autopreview is checked at the bottom of the Custom Transition panel, you will be able to see a preview of the transition every time you click on a transition title)
5. Click Apply To All Slides to make your entire presentation transition the same way

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Custom Animation

1. Open PowerPoint
2. Open your PowerPoint presentation
3. Click on Slide Show > Custom Animation
4. Click on the element (text box, image, etc.) you want to animate
5. Click Add Effect in the Custom Animation panel
   Select when during the slide to animate the element (Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, Motion Path, or More Effects). For instance, selecting Entrance will cause the animation to occur when the element is first going to be displayed whereas selecting Exit will cause the animation to occur when you exit the current slide and advance to the next slide.
6. After assigning animations, you can order the series of animations by selecting each one and clicking either the UP or DOWN buttons at the bottom of the Custom Animation panel.

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