In this lecture..! You will learn to "Use Animation Painter Tool in PowerPoint".
Animation Painter Tool is used to copy 'Animation Effects' from one element to
other in PowerPoint slides. In the previous slide, we assigned "Wipe"
animation effect and "Fly In" animation effect to these shapes. We can copy those
effects from this slide to the second Slide 2. Let's see..! How we can do that
with Animation Painter...! First go to the ' 1st slide ', open "Animations Pane" and
select any element, from which we need to copy the animation. We have added the "Fly
In - Entrance Effect" and customized it with some timing and special effects. Now,
we are going to copy, all those special effects from this 'object' to one of the
'fragment of the triangle' in the Slide 2. After selecting this queue, click on
" Animation Painter " once and click any fragment. See..! That animation is copied
here..! We can also modify it. Let's change the direction to "From Bottom". Now, I wish
to copy this 'Animation Effect' to all these 3 fragments. So, let me click on
" Animation Painter " and click this ' fragment '. I don't even need to click on
animation painter every time. For example, I can 'Double-click' this 'Animation
Painter' and I can click on as many elements as I like.
Let's see, a overall preview.
Now..! I'm going to 'copy' the "Animation Effect" of this text group from the Slide
1 to Slide 2. I'm going to use the 'Animation Painter' and click on this
group. Actually, I forgot to group this line along with this group. So, let
me complete that first. Let me SELECT this 'dotted line' and this 'group', press
"Ctrl-G", to group them together. Let me do the same for the other sets too.
Now, let me 'Copy' - the 'Animation Effect' from the previous slide. Click on
"Animation Painter" and then the "Slide 2" Let's change the direction to "From Left".
See..! You can get the same effect from the previous slide..! Now, let me "Double-click"
and 'Paste' the same 'Animation Effect' to all these three groups too.
Like..! We did in the previous slide, here also..! I'm going to 'Regroup' these
'Animation Effects' i.e., I wish to get this group animated, after the first
fragment appears. Whenever you 'double-click' on 'Animation Painter' and
after assigning the animation to all the objects that you wish, you will still get
this 'cursor', i.e., "Animation Painter Cursor". To escape from this mode, just
press "Esc" key on keyboard. That's it..! Let's play a overall preview. Here also,
if we like to fine-tune the appearance, we can format the background, by going to
"Design", "Format Background" and then "Gradient Fill". Here..! Instead of this
'Default - Gray Background', I would like to change it to one of the presets such as
this 'Accent 5' or this 'Accent 4'. You could have noticed that the text is not
that LEGIBLE here. So, we can either change the 'color of the text' or we can
change the 'color of the background', such as we can increase the brightness of
this color, to make the text legible.
That's it..! We have completed designing and animating a Slide 2. In the next
lecture..! You will learn to "Use the Arrange Objects and Selection Pane in
PowerPoint Presentation".