with just a few clicks you can add
interesting transition effects to the
slides in your presentation transition
effects or transitions as they are often
called are the movements you see when
one slide changes to another in a
slideshow view you may be wondering how
transitions are different than
animations
although the slides are animated as you
move from one slide to another the term
animation and PowerPoint refers to the
movements of text and objects on the
slide while transitions refer to the
movement of the slide as it changes to
another slide let's go ahead and take a
look at the available slide transitions
to view these select the animations tab
on the ribbon in the transition to this
slide group you can see icons of several
transitions right now there is no
transition applied to the slide so that
option is selected as we hover over an
icon we'll see a live preview of the
transition on the slide you can scroll
through the list one row at a time
or click the drop-down arrow to see the
complete list of transitions available
you can see we have some fade and
dissolve options and many different
swipe options if we scroll down we can
see some other transitions such as push
and cover stripes and bars and random
some of these are simple while some
others are definitely more noticeable
right now we are in normal view on the
slides tab in the task pane on the Left
I can see the slides 1 2 3 & 6 have
animated text or objects on the slide I
notice because all slides with animation
have a little star play animations icon
that plays animations and transitions if
I click the star the animation on the
spot will play but no transition since I
haven't applied one yet let's go ahead
and add a transition if you'd prefer to
work in slide sorter view you can but I
personally prefer to stay in normal view
to apply a slide transition to all
slides just select a slide and then
select the animations tab click the
transition you want to apply and now
that slide has the transition applied
right now you can't see that anything
has changed because this slide already
had animation but click the star
animation icon and you will see how your
slide will appear in your presentation
you can see the dissolve transition and
then any animation you set previously to
apply this transition to all slides
click apply to all now I can click each
star play animations icon and see that
the dissolve transition has been applied
to all the slides also the icon appeared
beneath the other slides that
didn't already have animation if we look
at our slides and slide sorter view we
can see the star play animations icon
beneath each slide you can also set the
slide transition speed the default speed
for dissolve is fast to change this just
select an option from the transition
speed drop-down menu I'll select slow so
you can see the difference the new speed
is only applied to the selected slide
but you can click apply to all you can
set the speed when you apply a
transition or you can do it afterwards
like we just did so right now each slide
has a dissolve transition at a slow
speed to change the transition and
transition speed for all slides just
select a slide click a transition change
the transition speed if you wish and
then click apply to all now all the
slides have the fade smoothly transition
at a slow speed sometimes you may want
to apply a different transition to a
specific slide for example on slide 4 I
want to use a different transition that
will help draw attention to our charts
data to do this just select a slide
click the transition you want to apply
and change the default speed if you wish
here
I like this wipe transition on slide 6 I
might like to apply the wipe down
transition you can apply a different
transition on each slide if you wish but
be careful you could end up with a
presentation like this I think I'll just
leave my transitions like they are right
now you
you have one more important transition
option and that is transition sound if
you click the transition sound drop-down
menu you will see a long list of options
each of these sounds can be applied to
one or more of your slide transitions to
add a transition sound to a slide just
select the slide and click the
transition sound drop-down menu right
now there is no sound applied to the
transition but you have many options
such as applause a camera a laser and
more let's see it might be kind of funny
to add the sound of a cash register to
slide six so I'll select cash register
from the menu now if I select slide five
and click slide show view I can see how
this transition sounds will appear in my
presentation if I want to apply the
sound to all the transitions I can click
apply to all it's a funny sound but I
don't think it's very professional in
this instance while I think sound can be
effective in presentations you'll want
to use it carefully I'm just going to
choose no sound from the menu if you
decide you want to remove some of the
slide transitions from your presentation
just select the slide with the
transition you want to remove select the
animations tab and click no transition
repeat this process for each slide that
you want to modify
if you want to remove all the slide
transitions just repeat the same steps
and then click apply to all you also
have some decisions to make about how
you will advance to the next slide in
your presentation in the transition to
this slide group on the animations tab
you'll see a section of the group that
deals with how to advance the slide by
default onmouseclick is selected this
means that to advance or move to the
next slide you will have to click the
mouse or press the key on the keyboard
to display the next slide let's take a
look at this and slide sorter view if
you know how much time you will need on
each slide you can enter that here
directly into the fields or by using the
arrows power points will use this
information and advance to the next
slide
after the amount of time you enter I
really caution people about using this
during a live presentation unless you
have really rehearsed now that we've
discussed transition effects sounds
speeds as well as how to advance to the
next slide
spend some time applying transitions to
your PowerPoint presentation to see what
a difference that transition can make
you