

This is a visual way for you to easily recognize what has animation already attached to it.

To change the speed and duration, select a section, and navigate to the Timing group in the ribbon.You might need more time between effects to speak in your presentation. Notice that the speed of the animations runs quick. Once a few of the effects have been added to a slide, click the Preview button to watch the speed and effects on the slide.(Select the Animation Pane button to open the animation menu on the right side for easier navigation for the selected effects.) An alternative way to add an animation is to click the down arrow in the Animation area and a drop-down menu displaying all the options appears.Scroll through and choose one of the animation stars, in this case the ‘rise up’ star is selected.Select the Animation tab and options in the ribbon appear.In this case the first point in the list. Highlight the first section you wish to animate.Open a PowerPoint presentation and select the slide where the animation will be added.Here are some of the ways to add animation into a presentation. Returning to the Q3 Sales Campaign presentation, it contains a list slide that could benefit from animation.

For the most part, stock animations are used in presentations, but if you have time and inclination you can create your own custom animations. In PowerPoint stock animations can be used or modified to fit a custom timeframe or pathway. Take for an example, a slide with list in it where you would like each of the bullet points to appear one at a time and in a different way. PowerPoint also uses a tool to include animations on objects within slides. In a previous module you learned about transitions in PowerPoint, in other words, how a slide enters or exits the presentation stage.
