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really want to add some excitement to
your presentation try adding some
animations PowerPoint has a wide variety
of animated effects that can be applied
to text and other objects in this
example I'm creating a very basic quiz
that has a question on each slide I'd
like to add animation to these two text
boxes and also the man on top of the
moon to get started select the first
object you want to animate then go to
the animations tab next click the drop
down arrow to see all the available
effects there are four different
categories entrance which will happen
when the object first appears emphasis
which happens while the object is on the
slide exit which will cause the object
to disappear and motion paths which will
move the object along a path I'm going
to choose the one called fly in which is
an entrance effect for some effects
you'll have different effect options
that you can choose from as you can see
this one lets you change the direction
let's say I wanted to add a second
animation to the text if we try to
select one from the main menu it's
actually going to replace the current
effect instead we'll click the command
that says add animation and we can apply
additional effects to the same object
you can always tell which objects have
animations because they'll have little
numbers next to them one for each effect
the thumbnail for the slide will also
have a star icon if you want to preview
the effect just click the preview
command any time now the key to using
animations effectively is moderation say
we wanted to add an effect to the answer
text as well we don't want anything too
bold like say the swivel effect because
it might be distracting to the audience
instead I'm just going to set it to
slowly fade in which should really help
the answer shine it's also important to
note that not every object needs an
animation this is especially true in
more corporate or professional settings
in this case we're creating a fairly
casual presentation so I'm going to add
one more effect to our little astronaut
but leave the rest of the slide alone at
this point we have several animations to
keep track of so it might be a good time
to open the animation pane the pane
appears on the right and lets you do a
few different things you can click and
drag the effects to change the order
that they play in and you can use the
drop down arrow to access even more
options by default animations are set to
start when you click the mouse but I
don't want to have to do that for every
single one instead we can have some of
them start automatically either with the
previous effect or after I'm going to
choose after for everything but the very
first animation that way they'll all
play one after the other as soon as we
click the mouse if you go back to the
drop down arrow and then choose effect
options from the menu you'll get a
dialog box where you can really
fine-tune the effect some of these
options will vary depending on the
specific animation you're working with
for example with this animation we can
set the answer to fade in all at once
one word at a time or one letter at a
time
I want a little bit more Flair so I'm
going to go ahead and choose by letter
if we go to the timing tab we can adjust
things like the speed of the effect and
whether or not it repeats I'm going to
add a tiny bit of delay to give the
audience more time to think of the
answer and that looks perfect now I'm
going to play the entire slideshow so we
can see the finished product we'll just
click the mouse to trigger the first
effect which triggers the next one
automatically and then the next one
I really like the way the answer
animation turned out so I'd like to use
the same one on the other question
slides luckily we don't have to go
through all the steps again we can just
copy and paste the effect from one
object to another first select the
object whose animation you want to copy
then click the command that says
animation painter next click whatever
object you want to add the effect to and
now it fades in in exactly the same way
we're well on our way to creating a fun
practice quiz with just a few animations
you can turn a simple slideshow into
something interesting and engaging