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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 walk through 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. Some of the depot
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. You will learn how
to make this three D text and animate it with any rotation and color and create this impressive
motion design effect. I will show you
how to make these video style spinning effects by using multiple animations and explain how these
abstract lines are created using a three D
bevel and fluid animation. We'll make these fun, falling, rotating, and bouncing shapes, and we will finish by
creating an interactive, vertically scrolling
presentation that animates between every page. 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. So
2. Create and animate 3D text: For this example, we'll create
this three D text and use the morph transition to animate it with any rotation and color. First thing we'll do is go for a blank presentation and
choose layout blank. I'm going to paste in
the gradient background I had just to save time. And now we can get started
creating the three D text. So we'll get a textbox. Type three D text
because we're original. Choose pop ins as the font, make it bold, and I'll
go for 125 font size. Now we can align
it to the middle, and I'm going to
make the text color from this blue on the
outside of the gradient. Now let's make the text three D. So we right click
and go to format shape. From here, we have shape options and text
options as the main sections. When you're working
with three D text, you'll be wanting to apply
some of the three D effects, such as the rotation
to the shape options, and some of the three D
effects to the text options. So firstly, let's add a rotation so we can
see the three D effect. And all of the three D
rotation is in shape options, effects, three D rotation. And for our example, I'm going to want
to add perspective and that's grade
out at the moment. So the only way to choose
this is to go to a preset and select one of the
perspectives to start with. So I can just select
any one, such as front, and now you can see you can
enter the perspective amount. And in my example, I actually
want it to be 70 degrees. And now I can add the
X rotation I need, which is 315 and the
Y, which is 359. And now let's add the depth. If you go to three D format, you'll see there's
depth in here. However, because we're
in the shape options, that would only apply the
depth to the shape itself, which is this rectangle. And because it's transparent, if I entered anything in
here, you wouldn't see it. So if we want to make
the text three D itself, we have to make sure to go to the text options and then
choose text effects. And we need to add
our depth here. And I'm going to
select 25 point. And I'm going to choose
the color for this, go to the eyedrop at all, and choose the yellow that's in the middle of our gradient
in the background. Nice. I'm now going to go to material and choose this
option here, soft edge. And finally, in the
three D format, I'm going to add a
very small top bevel. On the height of two point. And you'll see it's
automatically put in the width, but I want that to be zero, this just creates a nice
front edge that looks even more three D. And then I'm going to go to
the lighting section. Again, we're on text options. And I'm going to
choose this one here, two point, which provides less of a shine and more of a subtle effect that I
think looks really good. I'm also going to
add a reflection. I can pick a preset for this, and now I'm going to increase
the blur to 12 point. Looking good. Now, let's
add some animation. So if we go to the
slides on the left, press Control D to
duplicate and make sure that the second slide has the transition set to morph. I'm also going to take the
duration down to 1 second. Then we go back to
the first slide. I'll zoom out a little bit. I'll pick up my three D
text and move it down. So at the moment, the text
will slide up from the bottom, but we can also rotate it to make it a more
interesting effect. So if we go to format shape, choose the shape effects
option, go down to rotation. I'm effectively going to
turn these around to make this 350, 318 or do. And now when we
play this, you'll see that it slides in and
rotates at the same time, which is a pretty cool effect. Now I'm going to
show you how you can animate to
different rotations of the three D text and change the colors to get any
effect you're looking for. So we'll click Control D
again to duplicate the slide. This time, I'm going to
choose a grayish gradient. Something like this
will do. I'm going to change the text color to a gray and then I'm going
to go to text options, text effects, and I can change my depth to
a very dark color. Something like that
looks pretty good. And now I'm just going to
choose some different rotation. So for this one,
I'm going to type in 56 and for the z rotation, 359 and change the
perspective to 80. I'll just move this
roughly in the middle. And then when we play
from the second slide, you'll see that it will rotate and change the color
at the same time. Nice. We'll do one final example and change the effect
on this text slightly. Go into text options, text effects, and then, for example, under material, we could change it from the
one we're currently on, which is plastic down to one of these translucent such as translucent powder,
the first one. Then we'll control D on
the slides to create a second slide that it
will transition to, and we'll change the
rotation on this slide. We'll go into three D effects, and then choose
three D rotation. For this one, I'm going
to select 290 X rotation, naught Y rotation. And ten z. And again, we'll move it
roughly into the middle. So now when we play
from this slide, you can see how it nicely transitions using
the morph option. And for example, if you wanted
to make this one lighter, we can just increase the
brightness a bit of this. And I'll go into the text color and make it a slightly
lighter color. And then you can see how
it automatically will transition between them with a very smooth
effect using morph. And you can try any
three D effect you want. I would recommend using
different rotations and different colors
because if you try and morph between things
like depth or bevels, it won't work correctly, and PowerPoint will
just fade between them and not give
this smooth effect. So try out things like
rotation and changing colors, and you can use any text
and any colors you like. I
3. Make video style spinning effects by using multiple animations: I'll show you how to make these video style
spinning effects by using different shapes and applying multiple
animations to them. The first thing
we'll do is go to a blank presentation,
choose layout, blank. And in this example, we're going to start with
a black background. So right click, go to
format background, solid fill, and choose black. For our first example, we're going to just draw
a simple circle. So we'll go to Oval, click
anywhere. Go to the size. I'm going to make
this 10 centimeters. Align it to the
middle of the page, then go to fill, make sure
it's on no fill and underline. I'm going to make
this first one, this bright blue color. Now we're going to go to the
effects and add a glow to this because I think that adding a glow gives
it this nice, blurry motion effect
when it's animating. So we'll go to effet glow. Make sure we choose the
same color as the line, and I'm going to just
select five point. In my example at the beginning, I just had this text
box that just said one. And now let's add the animation. We'll go to animations
and we'll choose wheel, and you'll see this drawout. When we go to the
animation pane, we want these to
start automatically. So we're going to
select with previous. I'm going to make
this 2.5 seconds. And then I'm going to
add a second animation, this time, an exit animation. Wheel again, and
this will remove it. We'll go to start,
choose with previous, change it to 2.5 seconds, and then make sure that there's
a delay of 2.5 seconds. So this will mean that the
wheel animation will reveal, and when it's finished, it
will do the exit animation. So we'll select a 2.5
second delay for this. And now if I play this slide, you can see it
will reveal round. And then wipe off. And then we want to add a
third animation. And this is an emphasis
animation called spin. So we'll go to add animation. It's very important you
go to add animation. Otherwise, if you
click any of these, it will replace the animation. So we'll go to add. Under
emphasis, we'll choose spin. We'll make this
happen with previous, and we'll drag it up to the top. I'm going to set the
duration to 1 second, and then I can double
click on this. Go to timing and choose
to repeat five times. And what that will do is it will spend 1 second
rotating five times. And the reason I've done that is so that it takes 5
seconds in total. Which matches the time of
these two animations here, which were 2.5 seconds each. So now, when we play this, we get this really fast,
good looking animation. And now, I'll show you how
you can quickly duplicate this slide and
make variations of it using the change
shape feature. So I'll click on the
slide, press Control D, type two in this box. Click on our circle,
go to shape format, then edit shape, change
shape, and choose rectangle. That will create this square. Now we'll go and
change the color. So make sure it's selected. Go to Shape Outline and
choose our other color. And we also want to right click format shape and make sure that the glow
is also using that color. So we'll go to color and pick the same color for the glow. And then the same
color for the text. Now when we run this, the effect will be applied automatically, and you can change
the speed to suit. And in my example, I wanted
this to go a lot faster. So I can actually go
to the animation pane, and I could change all the
timings, but I know they work. So to make this faster, I can just go to
the first option, which is the rotation
and change it from 360 degrees to two spins, which is 720 degrees. So that's effectively just
going to double the speed. So when I run that, I'll quickly just create the
other two examples. So again, Control
D to duplicate, shape format, edit shape, change shape, and then
select any shape you like. I used this X, we can scale that up a bit. If you hold Control and Shift, it will scale like
this from the center, and then we can change
the number to three. And for this one, I just
chose this orange color, and again, we need
to do shape outline. And you can leave it
like that if you wish, or if you want to have
it the same color, you can go to glow and make sure that you
change that too. Now when we play it, we get
this cool fast animation. And now quickly the final one, control to duplicate,
change this to number four. For this, we just used a green. I'll make sure that
shape outline is green. And the glow is set to green. And then shape format, edit shape, change shape. We can change this shape to
anything that looks good. For my example, I happen
to use this called plaque. For this one, we can
size it down a bit. Again, click on the corner handle and hold down
Control and Shift, then we can size it
from the center. Now, when we run this animation
a clever way of using multiple animations to create interesting effects
directly in PowerPoint.
4. An impressive motion design text effect from scratch: In this example,
I'll show you how to make this impressive
motion design text effect. As usual, the first
thing we'll do is go file new blank presentation. Then we'll right click on
the background and go to Layout and choose Blank.
Now we'll add the text. And I want to write
design in my example, and I'm going to use 15
characters for this animation. So I'll just put in
15 Ds really quickly. This is just so that
we can animate them up and down and have enough, and we're going to
use the font pop ins and the font size 210 point. We'll make this bold, and then we'll go to the
line spacing options. Go to multiple, and I'm going to choose 0.61, so they're
nearly touching. I'm going to position
this in the far left. And then using
shift and control, I'm going to click and
drag to make a duplicate. So this will be my E. Yes. I. G. Finally. So there's all the letters
I need for the animation, and I'm now going to make
the text a tiny bit bigger, just to fit most of the screen. So I'll go for 290. And I'm going to position
the D to the left here, then select the other characters and move them over to
the right for now, so we can get the kerning right, which is the space
between the letters. We'll just drag these
manually to what we think looks like
the right amount of space between the letters. The text is looking good. Now let's make the
background black and change it to outlines
for some of the letters. So if we write click
anywhere on the background, we can go to format background, and then choose black. Now Control A will select
all of the characters. And for those, I'm going
to go to Text Options, choose textOline, solid outline, then make sure
white is selected, I'm going to make this three with round caps. So
that's looking good. I just want to fill
in some of these as white for the
design I've chosen. So I'm just going to
select them one at a time and click
to fill them in. Great. So we'll just
go full screen, and this will be the
end of the animation. So now I press Control
A, select everything, go to animations, a animation and choose
motion path lines. That will by default, move
everything down very slightly. And now if we click to
reveal the animation pane, we can right click while
these are all selected, go to effect options and
choose Auto reverse. So this will move them down
and then back up again. Now, if I zoom out a bit, I can hold control and use
the mouse wheel to do this. We use this slider
at the bottom here. But if we click on the D, I'm going to make this
one go up instead so I can go to effect
options and choose it up. I want it to move
more. And to do that, I click on the red triangle, and then I hold down shift, and drag the red dot, and now that's going to
go up quite a lot more. So I'll just test that.
As the Es coming down, I'm going to pick that up
and move it up quite a lot. I'm just going to line this
up here with the other text. Then make this E white because
this will be the endpoint. So the way I've done the
animation is wherever I move these two by holding
onto them and holding Shift, is going to be the end
position where they get to. And then wherever I click
on the animation and drag this red point is how far away the animation
moves before returning. So I can click on
this red triangle, shift and drag the red dot down, and then it'll just move
further down in the animation. I'll just quickly apply the same effect to
the SI G and N. So I'll make the
S move down a bit further. Just check that. I actually want the S to move
up instead for a variety. So I can go to effect options and choose up and
that will move up, but it'll return because we've got Auto reverse
as a preference. So I'm going to click
on the red arrow here and drag it up
the amount it goes up. Just quickly play that
see it's working. Everything looking good so
far. The eye can move down. So I'm going to
drag the red dot. And then move the eye up. So this will be its
finishing position, so I'm just going to
make this one white. Great. Just quickly apply same sort of effects to the GNN. The G, I'm going to make
go up by a little bit. And the N is set to
down, which is correct. I can adjust the amount it
moves from the red dot. Then drag the letters
up on the page, select the N and
make that white. So that should be pretty
much it with a couple of modifications to make it look more interesting
because at the moment, most of the animation
happens at the same time. If I select the second box down and put a quarter
of a second delay, then half a second delay,
and on the bottom one, three quarters of
a second delay, you'll see it has more
variety when it starts. And on the G, I think we
can do half a second. And on the S, I think we can
do quarter for a second. So this will stagger it all, so the speed of the animation is slightly different to
give it some interest. And I'm just going to do
Control A and use the upcursor just for some fine
adjustment to make sure that when I play it
and when it finishes, the characters are in exactly
the right place at the top. Excellent. So there's
some motion design with text that you can
easily apply in PowerPoint. And for a bit of variety, I'll show you how you can add something such as a bounce end. So with all of these selected, which you can do by holding down Shift and clicking
the bottom and the top, we can go to effect
options by right clicking, and then you can
type in something similar to 0.5 for bounce end. Then we'll play that you
can see that it now adds a little bounce at the beginning and the
end, just for variety.
5. Abstract lines using a 3D bevel and fluid animation. : This time, we will be creating these abstract lines using a three D bevel and
fluid animation. Firstly, let's create the lines. And to do that, we choose curve from the shapes
in PowerPoint. So I will click here to start, then move the
mouse, click again. And as you drag it down, you can see it creates the curve. To finish, you can press Return. And there's our curved line.
It can be anything you want. It's just an idea,
so you can create some custom shapes and custom designs that look
great on your slides. If you want to change the curve
after you've finished it, you can always right click, choose Edit points,
click on any point, and then use these
bezier handles to adjust the curve as you want. Let's now format
this line and get it looking three D. And to do this, we'll click on the line, right click and choose format shape. I'm going to make
this 50 point wide. And give it round caps. These are off the screen
on this particular design, but it's a nicer way
of looking at it with the round caps in case
you want to use the ends. Now I'm going to
select gradient line, drag off these two
that I don't want. I'm going to quickly paste in the colors that I
want to use for this, but you can choose any color
that you think looks good. So I'll click the
first gradient stop, go to color Eyedropper and pick the color
that I want to use. Then the second gradient stop and do the
same thing again. And under direction, I've
chosen the second option, which is linear down,
but you can choose any direction you think
looks good in your design. Now let's go in and add
the three D effect. And to do that, we choose effects from the
format shape option, go to three D format, and under where it
says top bevel, I'm going to change that
to 25 point and 25 point. The reason I've selected
25 points for each of these is because
the line is 50 point, and if I choose 25 point for the width and 25
point for the height, that gives it a nice
smooth, rounded look. The default material and lighting that PowerPoint
has added has made it look a bit too shiny for my liking in this
particular design, so I'm just going to
click on material. And take it down from
warm mat to mat. Then we'll click on lighting, and I'm going to
choose the second one in, which is balance, as I feel that gives
it a softer look, but again, it's down to
personal preference, whatever you think looks good. And there's our first
line. I'm happy with that. So now let's duplicate
it to quickly make the others so I can hold down control and shift
and drag this down. And then right click
on it, o center back. And now let's choose the
new colors for this line. We'll go to our gradients, and I'll pick the other colors. Now, control and shift and duplicate this line and
send it to the back. Then just drag it into whatever position you
think looks good. I'm just going to select all these and move
them up a bit. And while they're all selected, I can hold down Control
and Shift and drag them to make my second copy, put
these wherever I want. These are all
abstract, so just put them in whichever position
you think looks good. And to quickly change
the formatting on them, I can click on the pink
one, which is this one. Best Control Shift C, and then click on the
yellow one and apply it. Control Shift C to copy, Control shift V to apply it. Looking good. Now let's
add the background. Right click format
background, gradient fill. We can go with that,
but I used a blue one, so I'll pick up the color.
Pick up the second color. Nice. Now, let's add the text. For this, I just
use Poppins black. At 88 point aligned it to the middle
and made it white. So there's our abstract lines. Now, let's add the animation
using the morph transition. So we'll click on the slide, press Control D to duplicate, then type in the new
text and center it. We can then set
the transition to morph and I'm going to
move these slightly. And this will be the end
position of the animation. You can put these
wherever you want. It's whatever you
think looks good. Because they're using
the morph transition, it's easy to modify them by just dragging them at a later
date, if you wish. So I'm going to go with
something like that, and we'll just check that's working by running it
from the beginning. Looking good. I had mine as
a slightly slower animation. So I chose 6 seconds for the duration because I feel
that gives a nice effect. So let's run that
from the beginning. Nice. Now let's pick
the other colors, and you'll see that the
morph transition will automatically fade between the colors in
a really nice way. I'm now going to choose a different color
for this first one. Then a blue for the second one. Then we'll play that.
Check that works. And I'm going to make the
end color of this one. An darker version of this. So I'll just take the
brightness down a bit in this case. Now
it's looking good. I can press Control Shift C
on this one to apply it to this one with Control Shift V, and the same again for
the blue that I want to add onto this
one and this one. Control Shift C
again on the pink, Control Shift V. A quick way of applying the formats
and the colors easily. Nice. And you can move
these anyway you want. For example, I could
duplicate this again. I could select these. Move
them down on this one. And by making little adjustments
to them individually, you can get a nice, smooth,
fluid looking effect. So we'll just play from
that second slide. Show how easy you can
move these around to get a really nice
smooth, fluid animation. Using these tools are
a great way to get some individuality
into your designs.
6. Fun, falling, rotating and bouncing shapes: We'll make these fun falling
rotating and bouncing shapes using motion paths
and the smoothing settings. I'm going to start with
a basic rectangle, so we'll go up to here. L on rectangle, click
anywhere on the page, and we're going to
use the default size, which is 1 " by 1 ". To save time, I'm going to quickly paste in the
colors I'm going to use. Now click on my shape. Right click format shape. We want no fill, and
for the outline, I want a gradient line. I can drag away this stop by clicking on it
and moving it off, and then I'm going to position
this one in the middle. I'm going to move to
my colors and set these three gradient stops to my chosen colors using
the eye drop at all. For the direction, I
want this second one in, which is linear down and
set the width to two point. I'm now going to right,
click on the background, choose format, and
set that to black. So here's our first shape. I'm going to move this
to the top of the page. And before I create
the other ones, I'm going to add the
animation to it. This is because we
want to use a similar animation on every shape, and it's easier to
add the animation, then duplicate it, and
then change shape. We'll go to animations, add animation, first of
all, choose a motion path. By default, this will
move down slightly. If we hold down control and the mouse will
to zoom out a bit, I can then click on
this little red dot, hold down shift and drag it
all the way to the bottom. So if we play that,
you can see that it moves all the way down
to the bottom and stops. So there's a couple
of things I want to change in the
animation settings. So if we make sure
our items selected, click on the animation
pane and then double click, we can
get to the settings. So first of all, I want
to click Auto reverse on, so that will mean that
after it hits the bottom, it will animate backup. I also want to give it a
smooth start of 2 seconds. Because I feel that gives
it slightly better physics where it will actually slow
down as it rises back up. And for timing, I
want to choose repeat until end of slide and
for start with previous. So now we click Okay. And
we have our bouncing item. That's looking good. Now we're going to add one more animation, which is a spin. So
we'll click on this. We'll make sure we don't select
our animations from here. Otherwise, that will replace it. We want to go to add
animation and choose spin. So now we can double
click on our spin, we can change a couple
of the settings. I want to have it to rotate 720 degrees, which is two spins. Give it a smooth
start of 2 seconds, the same as the motion path, choose Auto reverse
and timing with previous and repeat until
end of slide and click Okay. So now when we play
that, it will bounce down and rotate
at the same time. Looking good, now
we can quickly just make the other shapes by
duplicating this one. So if we click on this
and press Control D, I can just drag this into
the position I want. Then go to shape format, edit shape, and change
shape to whatever I want. In my example, I chose Cross. I can click Control D to
duplicate this again. Edit Shape, change shape. This one I chose a
five pointed star and actually clicked
on this yellow dot and dragged it up a bit, then Control D again. And for this shape, I
chose what they call plaque and controledi again. And for this shape,
I chose a pentagon, and then for the final shape, I just chose the diamond. So there's all my shapes.
If I play that now, they'll all fall
at the same time. And I just wanted it to
be slightly staggered. To do that, we'll make sure the animation
panes are visible. I'm going to click on the star. So give that half
a second delay. Give the square quarter
of a second delay. The Pentagon three quarters. The plaque one. So I'm basically
just adding quarter of a second delay to each one to
give it a staggered effect. Now, let's play
that. Looking good. Now, let's add the text. For this, I'm going
to use fig tree 70 and in my example text. I wrote the phrase falling,
rotating, bouncing shapes. I'm just going to
change this to white, and then the correct font,
and then the correct size. And bold. We can now apply the formatting,
so we'll right click. Choose format shape, make
sure on text options. And then under textOline I
want to select gradient line, and under fill, no fill. For the gradient, we want
the same one as the shapes, so I can drag this one off. Quickly select the colors. And the direction down. I want
the width to be two point, and I'm actually going
to make this black to make it slightly
thicker font. Nice. That's looking nice. Now let's just quickly add
the animation to the text. And in my example, I
went to animations. And the first one
I chose was float in and then changed
the direction to down. And if we double click on
this in the animation pane, I chose by letter with a
10% delay and under timing, I chose with previous and
repeat until end of slide. So that gives the
nice falling effect. But one of the good things
about PowerPoint is it's easy to combine multiple animations
on the same element. And to do this, you make
sure it's selected, and you make sure you
go to add animation instead of clicking
on the animations in here, which would replace it. So we'll go to add animation. I'm going to choose swivel. And when we double click
on this I want it to be on by letter with a 10% delay between letters and for timing, I want it to happen
with previous and repeat until the
end of slide again. So you'll see what it's doing on the individual animation
there as it previews it. But when we play it, it will actually play both of
them at the same time. Excellent. There we go.
7. Create an interactive vertically scrolling presentation that animates between every page: In this walk through,
we'll create an interactive vertically
scrolling presentation that animates
between every page. I'm going to create
a black background, so we'll right click
on the background, choose format background, then go to solid fill
and select Black. Firstly, we're going to create
the content for each page, and that's going to be in
one long page on this slide. So I'll hold down Control
and zoom out slightly. Then click on Rectangle,
click anywhere, make sure it's snapped
to the top left, and then drag it out to the
right and down to the bottom. For this, I'm going
to choose no outline, and I'm just going
to quickly paste in the colors that I'm
going to use for this. Then I'm going to click on this blue square, go
to gradient fill, drag off the middle gradient
stop that I don't want, click on the one on the
left, and then go to the eyedropper and
select my first color. Then click on the
one on the right, Eyedropper and select
my second color. While the shape is selected, I'm going to quickly
paste in my text, size it up by pressing Control
and right square bracket. Then go to the size
and properties, and under the margin size, I want the left to be ten
and the right to be ten. That's my layout for page one. Now I'm going to
quickly duplicate that to make the other pages. So I'll hold down Control and use the mouse
wheel to zoom out, move my colors out the way, then click on this and press Control and Shift, and
then drag it down. These colors, I want the
one on the left to be purple and the one on the right to be the third
color in my palette. Then I can type in my new text. And do the same again
quickly for three and four. So hold down Control and
Shift and drag down, quickly change the colors to whichever you want
that looks good. And there's my final slide. And I'll just quickly update the text, and now
we're all done. I find it easier
to select all of these and Control
G to group them. Now let's create our other pages and then we'll create
the navigation. So firstly, we'll go to
the slides on the left, right click and
choose new slide, and then Control D and Control D. So that will create the three other slides that we're going to jump to. Go back to slide one.
I'm going to zoom in to my top slide and
create the navigation. For this, I used a circle. So you can click on Oval in the shapes menu and click
anywhere on the page, and I made this white with no outline and 0.8 by 0.8 size. And if you hold down
Control and Shift, you can copy this and control Y or equally space,
another duplicate. Now we can create the Links, so I'll right click on
this and choose Link. This one, slide one. Right click Link slide two, right, click Link slide three. And then finally, right, click Link, and
choose Slide four. I'm just going to select
all of these and move them down slightly so they're
equal on the page to this. That's looking good. Now we can copy this content
onto the other pages, and the first thing I'll do
is make the background black. So I've selected all the slides, go to solid fill
and choose black. Now I can click on the content, Control C. Go on to slide two and Control V. Now
if I zoom out, all I want to do is move this up until it's in the
right place for page two. Which is just there. Now I can align it
to the page by going to arrange line, align center. That is now page two. Control V to paste
it into slide three. And again, we move it up so that page three
is the bit visible. Which is there and
align it to the center. And then Control
V for page four. We can quickly do this by
doing a range, a line, bottom. Then we have our four pages that we can actually go between. I now want to select all of our navigation buttons,
Control C on those, then go to page
two, past them in, page three, paste them in, page four, paste them in. I'm just using page up and page down to switch
between those. Now we have our
navigation buttons in. So whenever we click on those, it will go straight
to that slide. But now let's add
the clever bit in, which is using morph to
animate between them. And this is as simple
as pressing Control A, going to transitions
and choosing morph. I'm also going to
set the duration to 1 second because I like
the speed of that. So if we play now,
whichever one you click on, it will animate between them, so you can go down
incrementally or even jump from any page
to any other page. Now I want to similarly
sized circle. This one will have an outline, which is the color of
the page that you're on. No fill. The outline
will be 1.5 point. I'm also going to go
to the effect section, choose glow, select white, and set that to five point. Now I can change it to the size, same size as the circle. Not 0.8. By naught 0.8. And then align it over
the top of the circle, and you can adjust it
with the cursor keys. Now I can press Control
C. Go on to page two. Press the cursor keys to bring it down to
where I want it. Give it the outline of
the color of the patron. Control V again for page three. Finally, Control
V for page four. Bring it all the way
down. Now when we play, this will animate automatically
between the slides.
Alan Lomer, POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER
