Custom Animations

Basics	Text	Graphics	Sound	Presentation Effects

Documents	Adding Text	Insert Pictures	Sound Effects	Transitions
Templates	Formatting Text	Recolor Clip Art	Importing Sound	Animated Bullets
Slides	Bullets	Clip Gallery	Recording Sound	Custom Animation
The Interface	Spell Checking	Shapes and Lines		Hyperlinks
Slide Master		Backgrounds		Slideshows
Print Layouts		Charts		Publish on the Web


	What are custom animations?	Rather than having the entire contents of a slide appear all at once, with custom animation you have a great deal of fine control over the manner, sound, order and timing of the appearance of each object on a slide. You can individually animate the various slide objects (the slide title, the bulleted points, tables, charts, and graphics). This allows you to skillfully direct your audience’s attention while adding interest to your presentation.

	How do I create custom animations?	To assign custom animations to a slide, follow these steps: 1) Go to the slide that you want to animate. 2) Pull down the Slide Show menu and select Custom Animation. The following dialog box will appear:

		3) In the Check to animate slide objects box, you will see listed all of the objects in the slide. (In the example above, there is a slide title, a text box, and a chart.) Check the items you wish to animate. (Any un-checked items will be shown on the slide when it first appears.) You will use the Custom Animation dialog to set all aspects of your custom animations. The next four pages will give an overview of each of the tabs: Order & Timing — order & timing of all animations Effects — animation effects for text and graphic objects Chart Effects — animation effects for chart and graph objects Multimedia Effects — animation effects for sound and video clip objects


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