- [Narrator] As you finish up your presentation,
it often makes sense to add transitions between the slides.
Now, this will make your presentation go
more smoothly and professionally.
So, let's take a look at how to create transitions.
So I'm just going to select the first slide in this deck
and go over to the Transitions ribbon.
And this is actually fairly self-explanatory.
So, all you have to do is select which transition you want.
So, for example, if I select Fade,
you can see how this fades in.
If you do Wipe, you can see that effect and so on.
Now, these aren't the only transitions you have.
If you operate this pull down menu,
you can see, we have a lot of other ones.
But I'm just going to go back to a simple fade.
Now, when you create a transition,
notice how under the slide number you get a star.
If you click on that star,
it'll go ahead and play that transition.
so, you can take a look at it.
Now, each effect that you have may have options,
and you can use this pull down menu here to change that.
So, if I do a different type of effect here,
such as a wipe, you can actually change
what direction that wipe will happen.
Now, in addition to this, you also have the ability
to add sound, change the duration
of the transition, and so on.
Now, this transition is from basically nothing,
which is black, to this slide.
If you want to do a transition between slides,
let's go ahead and select this next one.
And let's do something maybe like
a push transition, so you can see how that works.
And then, again, if you press on the star,
you can see how that works.
Now, PowerPoint has a lot of different transitions
and you can go ahead and play with them
and work with the effect options
to get the type of presentation that you want.