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Advanced Animations in PowerPoint Vol. 2 - 6 next level animation walkthroughs to inspire you

teacher avatar Alan Lomer, POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:28

    • 2.

      Animated clock

      5:12

    • 3.

      Animated text over video

      8:09

    • 4.

      Animated 3D model slide zoom

      5:29

    • 5.

      Animated image masking

      8:03

    • 6.

      Animated 3D photo tablet

      8:45

    • 7.

      Animated writing out text

      5:13

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About This Class

Good animation can be a wonderful tool to enhance the clarity of your message!

Vol.2 of this course contains 6 more short walkthrough PowerPoint animation examples. Each one will provide you with understanding of a key animation feature that can be used to take your slide design to the next level.

All of the examples are included for download in the 'Resources' section.

Some of the default animations used in PowerPoint can be worse than having no animation at all, but using animation that supports the content can bring your slides to life and engage your audience.

We will create a clock using the repeat option and spin animation and show you how to bring your slides to life using video in the background while animating text over the top

I will show you how you can easily create an interactive menu of animated 3d models and create an image mask to add depth to any design directly in PowerPoint

You will see how to create a 3D rotating graphic tablet, using just PowerPoint shapes, a photo and the power of the morph tool and finally, use the draw tools and the ink replay animation to make some text look as if it is drawing out.

By the end of this course you will be able to apply the skills learnt to create animations that you would have previously thought impossible in PowerPoint. 

If you enjoy this class, please check out Advanced Animations in PowerPoint Vol.1 

Please get in touch if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks! Alan.

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If you would like to check my other courses, please see:

Mastering Images In PowerPoint - A complete guide to creating beautiful slides using photos

Mastering Graphics In PowerPoint - Create stunning slides using shapes, drawing, 3d & illustrations.

Better charts and data visualisations in PowerPoint - Techniques to stand out when presenting data

Infographics in PowerPoint - Create high quality infographics in PowerPoint quickly and easily.

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Alan Lomer

POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER

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Hi, I'm Alan and I am here to help you master PowerPoint. My goal is to help you take your presentations to the next level, engage your audience & get your message across with maximum impact.

Everything you need to create stunning presentations can be done inside PowerPoint and I am here to help you do this.

I have been designing for over 30 years and have helped hundreds of people and companies tell their story through slide presentations.

I will help you gain an understanding of presentation design skills that took me years to learn and develop.

Throughout the courses I will give you simple effective advice to help you design better presentations.

I hope you enjoy the courses.

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1. Introduction: Good animation can be a wonderful tool to enhance the clarity of your message. This course contains six short through PowerPoint animation example. Each one will provide you with understanding of a key animation feature that can be used to take your slide design to the next level. Some of the default animations used in PowerPoints could be worse than having no animation, a tool. Using animation That's opposed the content can bring your slides to life and engage your audience. We will use the spin animation with repeat option to create an animated cloak and show you how you can bring your slides to life using video in the background while animating texts over the top. I will show you how to create an interactive menu using animated 3D models and explain how to create an image mask to add depth and any design. You will learn to use the Morph transition to create an animated 3D rotating tablets. And we will finish by using the draw tools and in Greek play to create text that looks as if it is drawing act. By the end of this course, you'll be able to apply the skills learned to create animations that you would have previously thought impossible in PowerPoint. 2. Animated clock: In this example, we will create a clock using the repeat option and spin animation using a simple hack to rotate from the correct point. The first thing we'll do is click on oval and add it to our page. If we right-click and choose Format, Shape, I can go to the Size and Properties and I'm going to choose 12 centimeters by 12 centimetres. I also want to make sure it's got no fill that the outline is a bit thicker. I'm gonna go for 6 for this. Just make it a bright standard blue. So it's very easy to see what we're working with, just going to align it to the middle of the page. There's the outside of our clock. Now let's add the hands. Let's do the minute hand first, we'll click on line. Go from the center of our page. We'll go up to about here, as before, six points and make it the standard bright blue color. We're also going to change the cap type to round. Now we have the minute hand. Let's animate it, because once we've done it, once, it'll be really easy to duplicate it to make the other hand, the animation type we're going to use for this is going to be a spin. But if you just had a spin to something like this on its own, watch, what happens? It will always go from the center point. So we don't want that. If we add an oval, we can start here. And then if we hold down Control and Shift, you can see it will expand from the center out. That's perfect. I'm going to fill this with a very light gray so I can still see it and give it no outline. Just what we're working with it. Eventually it will have no color at all. And then send it to the back. Now, I press shift click to select the minute hand, as well as this circle I have. I make sure they're fully aligned. I press Control G to group. Now when I go to animation and spin, That's looking good. So now if we click once, will have selected the group. But if we click a second time on this gray circle, we just select the gray circle. We can go to color. And we can choose white when this case, because we'll have a few laid over the top of each other. I'll probably choose no fill. So when we play this, we'll have one rotation. I will click here to go to the animation pane. Double-click to timing. And we'll select repeat until end of slide. And I'm going to select this, the duration. And I'm going to change this to five seconds. I'll tell you why elder, five seconds in a minute. So if we play that, that should now be the minute hand. Now let's quickly duplicate to make the hour hand. So we'll click on this control D will just drag this out of the way for a minute, just so we can see what we're working with. I'm going to click twice to make sure I've selected the hand and then just make it a bit smaller for the hour hand that we'll do. Then I'm gonna go to the duration on this one and change it to 59 seconds. You might notice this is actually the maximum duration you can have on any animation inside PowerPoint. And we'll select start to be with previous. Will click on this. We'll align it to the middle. Excellent. Those are our hand and our minute hand. And the reason I set it to 59 is because that's the maximum. And I set the minute hand to five seconds because 59 divided by 12, which are the hours. Is it close to five seconds? It's close enough anyway, it looks good in the animation, which is what matters at the end of the day. So let's get in a second-hand and then we're done. Control D again to duplicate. Just drag it out of the way, just so we can see what we're working with again on this one. I'm going to make it about that tool. And I'm just going to change it to make it a bit slimmer. So say 2.50 and I'm gonna make it semi-transparent as well. 50. This wants to animate really fast, so you could probably put it at about 2.5th. It doesn't really matter on this one. If you do it too fast, you won't see all the frames. Let's have a look at the speed of that. Align it to the middle. There we go. Our animated clock, just a few minutes directly in PowerPoint. It's a very simple animation to get that. It's just a really good way of understanding some of the fundamentals of animation in PowerPoint. 3. Animated text over video: This example shows how to bring your slides to life using video in the background while animating text over the top. The first thing we'll do is go to File blank presentation, right-click layout blank. I'm gonna go to Insert Video, stock videos. And this is the video I started with. You can click on that and click Insert. Now I will just align it to the top-left corner and drag out the bottom corner until it snaps. Now let's add the text will go home. Click on the text box, click anywhere on the page. And I'm going to type motion. I'm going to make this white pop in size 100 and bold. Then we'll align it to the middle and align it to the center of the page. I also adjusted the character spacing on this example. And to do that, we can go to this section that's got AV and the arrows underneath in the front part of the Home ribbon. And you click here to drop down and go to more spacing. And I actually want it to be expanded by 50. Now we'll just drag this out so it fits. Realign it to the center. Now we're good to add the animation. So for this first example, I'm adding a T to animation and setting it to animate by letter. So let's click on the word. Go to animations, click on Data, then click on Animation Pane. And when we double-click on the actual text, we get options. And one of them is to animate text by letter. So I'll click Okay on that. And you can see that's the effect I used. We also need to make sure that it starts with the video. And to do that will make sure the text is selected in the animation pane. And we'll go up to start, and we'll choose with previous. So now when we play that, it animates with the video background, There's our first animation done. I'm going to quickly paste in some other videos to show you some more great examples. So I'll just paste in my video slides that I have previously to save time. And each one of them has just got the text on with no animation. I'm going to show you how you can animate these encode different ways and also how you can make the video. Go on to the next slide before the whole clip is finished by using the trim function. So for this second slide, we're going to do a floating. So we'll click on the text. When we're on the animations part of the ribbon, you can choose floating. By default, that floats in the whole word. If we double-click on the text in the animation pane, again, we can choose by letter. We'll just have this on ten per cent delay and we'll click Okay, great. And now we'll put start with previous again, same as before. So the video will play and the text will come in with previous. That's great. Let's show some more examples. On this slide. We're going to add a Zoom by letter. So we'll click on the text of the animation part of the ribbon. We're going to choose Zoom. It'll default to zooming in on the whole word. But we can go to the animation pane, Double-click on the text box, and choose animate text by letter for timing. We're going to make this duration 1 second and press. Okay. We also need to make sure it starts with previous, starts with the video. Great. For this example, we're going to use a really fast blink to get a strobe like effect. So we'll click on the text, will click on this drop-down box here to go to more than the blink is actually an emphasis, but it's not in here. So we go to more emphasis of x. And you can see there that it says blink under exciting. So we'll click on that. And click, Okay. Now we can double-click. And in the effects settings, we can go to animate texts by letter and in the timing to get the strobe like effect, we're going to make sure the duration is extremely fast. So it goes down to nought 0.5 seconds here. But you can actually just click in here and type nought 0.1 and will also repeat until end of slide. We can also adjust this to go with previous, which does the same thing as doing it in the timing box over here with previous, great, There's our strobe like effect. On our final example. We're going to use a font color effect to change the font color really quickly. And I'm going to show you a tip on how you can choose any color for that. So we'll click on the text, will go to Add animation. And we'll choose font color. That would just default to a font color up here under Effect Options. And you can see that you can't actually type in a custom color in this box, but there is a way to do it. So I'd actually like to use one of the colors in this actual video background. To do that, we can just draw any shape and we can go to the eyedropper tool. And then I can move this anywhere. And it will get the color I want to use. I'll pick this one. Now when I go to Shape Fill and more fill colors, There's actually a hex value for this color. We can press control C to copy that. And I close this box down and delete this because we don't need it anymore. Then when we double-click on the animation pane, you can choose the font color in here, and you can go to more colors in this option. Now, we can simply select the hex and paste in our color value. And then we can press Okay, so now that's going to use the color that I picked from the video background. I also want to make it animate by letter. I'll go into the timing section again. I want this very fast, so I'm going to use nought 0.1 seconds. And I'm going to choose to repeat until the end of slide and start with previous. Now we'll press OK. And you can see that's a cool looking, very fast animated effect. You can adjust this to any speed you like. The look of that suits the material you're working with. So for example, we could go to timing. We could actually make this a bit slower if we wanted to, such as 2.5th. And you could see the effect happened more slowly. And finally, I'm going to show you how you can use trim video to automatically be able to play through these slides without having to click advance. So we'll click on the first slide. We'll go to transitions. Will make sure that in the advanced slides section, the after box is ticked on. At the moment, it will actually wait till it plays the entire video and then advance. But if we right-click on the video and choose trim, you can drag this red bar down to wherever you want. So if I wanted it to be two seconds, I might type naught, naught, naught two. Now, after two seconds, that will automatically advance to the next slide. We can just quickly apply that to the other videos. Right-click trim. In this box. Type too. Great. So now when we play that from the start, it will all happen automatically. That's a really good tip for when you're using video over multiple slides, you can make the presentation into one continuous piece. Let's play from the start and see what we've got. Great. So that's a really good way of using the letter and the speed to make cool-looking video effects. 4. Animated 3D model slide zoom: In this walkthrough, I will show you how you can easily create an interactive menu of animated 3D models. We'll go to File new blank presentation, right-click layout. Blank will quickly add the background and the text so we'll right-click, choose Format, Background, go to picture or texture, fill, insert stock images. And I'm going to type sky. Insert this image. Quickly add the text. 3d animated. Model, Zoom, make the text white. Poppins, size 40. Old. Drag this out and align it to the middle. Now let's add the models that we're going to zoom between. The way to set this up generally is to create the things you want to zoom to on different slides. So we're just right-click here and add a new slide. And on this slide, we're gonna go to insert 3D models. And you can actually add any of your own models or any that you've downloaded from the internet by going to this device. And you can see here all the different formats that are supported. Or you can go to 3D models, stock 3D models, and that uses the inbuilt PowerPoint ones. If we get an animated models, just going to pick up this hummingbird here first, takes a few seconds to download it and add it in. And we can scale it up to whichever size we want. And when we go back to our first slide, now we can add the Zoom. We'll go to Insert. And under this link section, you can see it says Zoom. I'm going to select Slide Zoom. And then I'm going to choose the slide I want to zoom to, which is slide too. I'm going to drag this over here, make it the size I want. If you enlarge it on the second slide, it will also show it bigger on the slide here, because this is effectively just a link to the second slide. So now we just need to do a couple more things. Once we've selected this, we can go to Zoom. There are some options. I want to select, return to zoom. And what that will do is that when we click on slide two, it will come back to slide one, will effectively zoom into the object. And when you click again, it was in backed slide one, which creates a smooth transition. One other thing we need to do is go across to this section, which hides the background. Perfect. So just play that. Now. When you click on the hummingbird, it will zoom into it. Animate it. When you click, it will return back. So let's just add the others in. As a reminder of how to do this. We'll right-click, choose new slide, insert 3D models, stock 3D models. I'm going to go to all animated models and add this scary-looking wasp. Then we can go back to our slides. Zoom, insert, Zoom, Slide, Zoom, and just pick slide three. Again, the two settings that we need to change returned to Zoom in Zoom background. Now when you run this, whichever one you click on, it will zoom into that. Animate it. When you click, it will zoom back. And you can use this with any slides. But here's a fun example where you can use it with 3D models. We'll just quickly add the other two that I had in the first example. New slide, insert 3D model, stock 3D models. Go back to our first slide. Insert, Zoom, Slide, Zoom, and just select the slide we want and press insert, and just drag it wherever we want it to go. Make sure the two settings we tend to Zoom in. Zoom background is selected. Finally, add the balloons. Go back to our first slide. Insert Slide, Zoom, pick this slide. But anyway, we wish we can scale this up if we want to. Just by holding the corner handles. Go back to our first slide. We just need to remember to do the two settings under Zoom, returned to Zoom and Zoom backgrounds turn the background off. Now when we play this, you can click on any element we've added, such as these balloons. Zoom straight into them. They'll animate and you can click to zoom back. There we go. Remember that we can use Slide Zoom for any slides we wish. And it's good to know that you can turn off the background in it and even use animated 3D models. 5. Animated image masking: In this example, we will use the inbuilt PowerPoint tools. So no Photoshop required to create an image mask to add depth to any design. The first thing we'll do is get our image that we're going to use as the mask and we'll go to Insert Pictures. Stock images will type dog. This image will work well because it will provide good contrast. And I can see straight away where I might want the text to be masked. And now we can crop it to the full screen. So I'm going to click on it, choose picture format, crop, aspect ratio, and choose 16 to nine because that's our ratio of the screen. If I hold down Shift, I can move it to wherever I want to crop it to, which is about there. Now if I drag it will snap to the top left corner. And then if I hold onto the bottom-right corner point and drag it, I can lock it to the bottom right corner. And there's our full-screen image. I'm now going to add my text. Click a text box, type Dog. Change the font to Poppins, bold, 200 points. Drag this out, align it to the middle, change the text to white. And then I'm going to add a shadow. So I'll start off with an outer shadow. And I will just increase the blur and the distance to ten to add quite a strong shadow. This is about where I want my masks to be. So we're now going to click on the background image of the dog. Press Control D to duplicate, align it back so it's exactly on the top of the other image. And we're now going to show you how you can use the Remove Background tool to create the mask will go to picture format and we'll just click Remove Background. What this is doing is PowerPoint is trying to work out which part of the background you want to keep and which you don't. Sometimes it will do a really good job straight away. And other times it's quite random and you can just paint in with these tools up here, Mark Areas to keep, Mark Areas to remove. So I want to add some extra areas to keep. So I'll click on Mark Areas to keep. Then you can just roughly painted in and the computer will actually do the work for you. It doesn't have to be exact. You can see it's doing a pretty good job when I just paint over it roughly with the pen. It's working out pretty well what I'm going to keep. So when you click Keep changes, we now have a layer over the top. And if you want to add some animation to this, they aware that this image is over the top. I'll just drag it so you can see if you wanted to click on the dog texts to add some animation. We could do it in a couple of ways. One good thing to know is that you can go to arrange selection pane, and then you see the three things you have. I can even rename them. So this is my dog mask. This is my dog background. This is my text. I can just turn off the dog mask visibility for a second. Then I can go to animations, add animation, motion path. That's pretty much what I want, will just reverse the path direction so it comes from underneath. I'm gonna go to the animation pane. I'm going to select a smooth end. Going to take the timing down to 1 second, back to the selection pane and turn on the top layer. Now when we play nearly there, but when adding a motion path, you often want to start it off is not visible. And the way to do that is to click on the text box, go to animations, add an animation. In this case, just a fade would do. When we go into the Animation Pane. I like to drag the actual motion path underneath and select start with previous. So all that will do is when a click now, the text will fade on and move at the same time. So let's play that. That's great. Just going to show you another quick example to show you again how to remove background works. Insert pictures, stock images, type Panda. This is the one we want to use. I'm going to go to crop aspect ratio is 16 to nine. Again, we'll drag it up into the top, pull out the corner handles. This one's got some color in it. So I'm going to show you I can easily take the color out. You can right-click format picture. Go over to where it shows the landscape and the sun here, picture, picture color, and put the saturation on note that we'll just take all the color out straightaway. Now we can add our text. I'm going to type panda. Make it white. Poppins again. Bold. Size it up. It should be about right. I'm just going to place it about there. Now we click on our panda background Control D to duplicate. Move it back into the right place. So now we can click picture, format, remove background, see how it does. That's pretty good to start with. You can click green to mark areas to keep. For example, we might want to add this in. The animation is coming from here. And if the mask is coming from here, then we can click Keep Changes. Now, if we go to the selection pane, again, picture for is our top image, which I'll call panda mask. Picture two is our background. This is our text. We might want to move our text slightly out the way. And if we wanted to animate, it, would do is before. We can go to a line animation, which is left, which is Reverse Path Direction. One second, click on the animation pane, double-click, choose smooth end. Then we just need to make sure that it fades on at the same time as we did in the previous one. So go to Add animation. Fade. Again. I like to drag the movement underneath the Fade and then choose start with previous. So if I play that, That's great. So really quick way of using remove background to create a mask, to add some depth and create interest. And you can apply this to all sorts of images and make some great effects with it. 6. Animated 3D photo tablet: This example, we will create a moving 3D rotating graphic tablet using just PowerPoint shapes or photo and the power of the Move tool. We're gonna go to the drawing section and choose rectangle, rounded corners, and just click anywhere. If we right-click on this and choose Format Shape, then go to the size. I'm going to make this 16 centimeters by 13 centimeters. Then I'm going to choose to fill it with black and give it no outline. Then use this little yellow dot here to adjust the rounded corners to suit. That looks about right. I'm just going to quickly paste in the images I used. And I'll show you how you can set these up so they go perfectly inside the image without squashing them or stretching them. So firstly, we'll duplicate this shape by pressing Control D. Just fill it in white so we know what we're working with. I'm going to align both of these together. And then I'll click on the white one. And I'm going to hold down control and shift to size it. You can stop wherever you think. The bezel on the iPad graphic looks good. I think about there is good. Now because these rounded corners will be slightly different. I'm going to pick up the yellow dot and drag it a little bit in. Yeah, I think that looks good. Now let's get the image in there. So we'll go into the image that I paste it in. I'll press Control C and Control V. There's our image. If I drag this over the top, we can size it down to how we want it to look inside. Now I'm going to right-click and choose crop. Just use these little black candles to bring this up to crop it to the right place for the frame. This will stop at stretching because sometimes you can have widescreen images. They would stretch a lot. In this case, it's a portrait image, but we still want to make it look as good as possible without stretching it. So now I'll click on the image, press Control C, and then delete. Now we click on the white right-click Format, Shape, picture or texture fill, and then choose clipboard. Great. We will now select everything. Control G to group. Now let's add the 3D rotation. So for this, we can go to Shape Options, effects, 3D rotation. And then we'll just pick anything from perspective down below. So the first one, and that just adds 45 degrees perspective. Now, we can type in what we wanted, the x, y, and z rotation, and you can choose whatever you think looks good. In this case, I chose 315 for x, 323 degrees for y, and 356 degrees for z. Then we'll go to 3D format. And I chose 20 debt. For the depth color. I just chose a gray. Now, we can size that down a little bit and position it as we wish. So there's our first one. Now I'll show you quickly how you can duplicate this and change the Imagenet quickly without having to recreate the graphics. So Control D. After we click on this, we'll drag it into position. I would like this one to be 4323 is fine for that. 343 for that. And you can see that's added a very strong lighting effect, which is the default. Just added a neutral three-point light. If we choose the 11 along balance. You can see that resets the lighting nicely to make it look more similar to this one, we can also choose balance here too. Now, let's change the image in this one on the left. So we'll go to our images that I pasted in earlier, Control C. And then go back to our three-dimensional iPad graphics. And then we'll need to click once as this is a group, and then click a second time on the image. Now we've got the image selected. And you can see that by this line that's drawn around it. So now when we go to this little paint bucket icon, which is the fill options, we can choose clipboard. And it will fill it with the image that I copied great quickly. Just draw in the background and shape that I had, which was just a rectangle. Give it a shape, fill no outline. Right-click and choose center back. Nice. Now let's add the animation. To do this, we'll click on the first slide. Press Control D. Make sure that on the second slide we go to transitions and choose morph. Then go back to the first slide and set our start points. I'm going to drag both of these up slightly, then change the rotation slightly so they're rotators, the animating, which has a nice effect. For this start, I'm going to use 373123461333 x rotation 325 degrees. Why? 345 said. Now, when they play in, you can see that rotate in a nice way is they reveal down and you can set the rotation to anything that you like, that looks good. Finally, as a bonus, I'll show you how you can quickly change the images in these without having to recreate any of the graphics and without stretching the images that you choose. So I'm just going to paste in the images to save time. You can get any of these images you want by going to Insert. Then choosing pictures, stock images, and typing in the search bar what you're looking for. These, I just typed portrait and chose the ones I liked. So I'm going to Shift select to select our two slides and Control D to duplicate them. Then from slide three, this is going to be our variation. So I'll change the fill color to a dark gray. Then we have two options here. The quickest one I think, is to keep the animation as it is. Not have to redo that. But just change the pictures on both slides. If we go to our picture that we want to use, press Control C, click once, click again. Go to fill and choose clipboard. Looking good, and then go to the end slide in this animation. Click once, click a second time and do the same thing. Then we'll go to get our other image. Go back to our first slide. Click once, click a second time. Phil, clipboard. Looks great. And we'll just do it on the final one. Click once, click a second time. They'll clipboard. Just going to turn more from the slide in-between so you can see how it will leave and move back to the new color variation. And then we'll play from the start. That's great. So you can see how you can easily create graphics from scratch, display photos in them, and then easily change the photos when you've added things like animation and 3D rotation. 7. Animated writing out text: In this example, I will use the Draw tools and the inquiry play animation to make some texts look as if it is drawing out. I'm going to click up here to create a textbox. I'm going to type some text. I'm going to choose meow script and make it 180. I'll align it to the middle. Because it's got a massive S in this font in capitals. You can just visually align it until you're happy with where it is in the middle. And that's about right. So to make it easier to work with, we'll go to Format Background, and we'll just choose a gray color. And the way we get this to work is we actually draw over the entire text in the order we want it to reveal and reverse it. So let's get drawing will go to the Draw section of the ribbon. And here you can choose a pen. If you go to the drop-down, you can make sure that it's the thickest one possible, which is 3.5 millimeters. White is fine. Now we can draw over it in the reverse of the way you would expect it to write out. So I'm going to go from the bottom right and then draw over it in that way. So I'm going to click to start. Then I'm going to hold the mouse down. Which is important that you keep your mouse held down. As you draw over this, you can actually let go of the mouse. But if you do, it will create two animations. And ideally, it's easier to use this as just one animation. Will want to continue until all the black of the texts lettering is covered. Now I can let go of my mouse. So if we go to the animations pane and click on our ink, we can choose replay. And generally, this will be the option that you use for drawing out animations as you drew them with the pen. But in this case, because we want to reveal the text, we're going to choose rewind, which plays the drawing of ink strokes in reverse. There we go. That's looking good. So if you haven't quite covered all of the black, you can right-click on this and choose Format ink and change the width that will make it thicker. And you can also change the color. So we're going to change the color to the blue that we're going to use for the first background. So we'll choose light blue. And then we'll right-click on the background and choose Solid fill and choose light blue for that. Also. You can adjust the time it takes to write on by clicking on it, going to animations and changing the duration. I'm going to set mine to three seconds. You can see that even though the text is blue, it will actually show white when you click on it so you can see where it is. Now let's play that and see what we've got. Great. We're just going to make the text white. And to do that, I can either click on this and send it to the back first so I can get to the text I want to make white, or I can choose it in the arrange panel. Just for reference. That's in the selection pane. And you can change it here by clicking on it, which is textbox three. So I'm going to make this text white. Now. Then right-click on this center back. Now, it will write out as at the beginning in my example. Great, I'll just show you how you can make the color variations. So if we click on the slide and press Control D to duplicate, I can right-click on the background, Format Background. This one, I'm going to choose gold axe and four. Then I can click on the drawing that's covering it. Go to Shape, outline, and choose the same color as the background. So we'll just play that. Great. So I'm just going to do the final color that I had in the example at the beginning. Control D to duplicate slides, right-click Format Background, choose a solid fill, and we'll choose the standard color, light green there. And then we'll click on the drawing and go to Shape, outline, and choose the green there. Now when we play this, you'll see the exact example had at the beginning. Remember, you can use this with any font and any text you like. The trick is to go to the Draw section to hold down the mouse volume right over the whole thing in reverse to how you want it to reveal. Then add the animation to rewind.