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Adding animation to objects and text
From the course: PowerPoint 2016 Essential Training
Adding animation to objects and text
- We've talked about slide animations, which are called transitions. But you can add animation to pictures, shapes, and text boxes also. When you create animations, always be thinking how they're going to work in conjunction with your talk. Some can be for fun, some can be for function. Sometimes you need to slowly reveal elements on your slide. In fact, let's slowly reveal these pictures. I need to start by selecting them all, and I do that by clicking on one, holding down the shift key on my keyboard, and clicking the rest of the pictures. With them all selected, I'll move to the Animations ribbon tab. From here, I can see some animations to start with and I can click the down arrow and choose some more. There's three types of animations. There's an Entrance animation, an Emphasis animation, and an Exit animation. Entrance will control how an object appears on the slide. Emphasis is something that can happen to it while it's already on the slide. And Exit is a way for it to leave…
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