- [Instructor] Animation is a great way
to add a storytelling element to your slides.
Remember this slide?
I had a nice picture here.
And in this slide the same picture went dim
and some text appeared.
I'd like to have this text appear slowly
and then maybe to add some drama, we can add the logo.
So let's get started creating an animation.
I'm going to first select the text box.
I'll change to the Animation tab,
and now I can choose an animation to appear.
As I click on each animation,
I can get a preview of how it's going to look.
I like the fade animation,
but I'm going to choose Effect Options.
I can have it add as one object, all at once,
or by paragraph, and I can even further fine-tune it
by clicking this tiny little down arrow on the bottom right
to open up a dialog box to give me some more options.
A great feature about animating text is
that you can really fine-tune the effect.
In the Animate text area, I can have it appear
all at once, by word, and by letter.
By letter is a great way to give
it a neat typewriter effect.
You can even change the delay in between letters.
I'm not going to keep it as this,
but I'll show you what I mean.
I'll click OK and we'll get a preview.
If I added the delay very, very slowly,
it would look like a typewriter.
I can animate it by word and so on.
I'm going to have the whole thing appear.
I can even add a sound to my animation.
So if you're having it appear by letter,
there is a typewriter sound
to give it that old-school effect.
I can choose how I want it to start.
I'll have it start on a mouse click.
I can change the duration of the animation
if it's too long or too short,
and I can also add a delay on it.
I'm going to add another element to this slide.
I'm going to insert a picture and I'll insert our logo.
I'll put it down at the bottom
and then I'll slowly have this appear.
So I'll change back to the Animation tab.
I'm going to have this fade in.
I'm going to up the duration of this
because I do want a slow fade-in,
and I'll put a delay on it.
If we want to see how this looks,
I can click Preview on the left-hand side.
I like that, so I'll stick with it.
Something else that you can animate is chart elements.
I'm going to select my chart.
I'm still on the Animation tab,
so I'm going to choose Appear.
I want each chunk of this chart to appear separately,
so I'll choose Effect Options, and By Category.
This appears because it knows that I've selected a chart.
If I want to see how that looks, I can change
to the Slideshow tab and click From Current Slide.
With each click of my mouse, I can animate this chart.
I can talk a little bit about the eBook sales,
the hardware sales, training, and so forth.
I just need to click my mouse every time
I need to start the animation.
I'll hit the escape key to get out of this.
I can select this and change back
to the Animations tab and all my animations appear.
I can see them all numbered by these little red squares.
If I want to delete the animations,
I can delete them on the keyboard by hitting the delete key.
Play around with animations, animate objects
all at once or one at a time.
They're very powerful and you can learn
how each different type of animation can
drastically change the storytelling aspect
of your presentation.