- [Instructor] One way to add visual interest
to your presentations
is to animate objects in your slide.
So let's go ahead and go down to this last slide here
which has a number of different objects
and we're going to animate these coming onto the slide.
Now we do this using the animations ribbon.
And so this basically gives us
a number of different animations that we can use.
So if I click on one of these elements,
you'll see that right now it has no animation,
but if I want to, I can fade it in.
I can fly it in.
I can float it in and so on.
And there's a whole bunch of different types of animations
that you can use.
So we're going to select flying.
Now when I do this,
notice how this gives it a little number
and that's going to be the order
in which the animation occurs.
So if I select this one here and also fly it in,
you'll notice that this is two
and then let's go ahead and fly in this last one
and that is three.
So if I clicked on this star,
that will play those animations.
Now I want these to actually come from the top.
So let's go ahead and modify these.
I'm going to select this first one
and then here under effect options, we can change it.
So in this case, I want to change this from the top,
select this one, do the same
and then do the same for the third one.
So now when I play this animation,
you'll see it goes one, two, three from the top.
Now if you want to further modify these,
you can go over here to determine when this starts.
Does it start on clicking the slide?
What's the duration and is there a delay?
Now we also can trigger animation
from clicking on certain elements in the slide as well.
Now let's say we wanted to add one more animation.
We want to animate these particular words coming in,
but let's say we wanted to animate those altogether.
Well one good way to do this is to simply group them
and then animate the group.
I'm going to select all of these,
right click Group and we're going to group those.
And so now that's one group.
And again, I'm just going to add in a fly in,
and this time I want to fly this in from the left.
So now when we play this animation,
you can see how that works.
So there's a lot of different creative possibilities
with animation in PowerPoint
and it's really a fun feature to play with.