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You
mentioned animation earlier. Are you talking Walt Disney?
Scooby Doo? Please, fill us in. Your talents seem to know
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Well
thank you, Sue. Just as you can import any image, you can
import any animation. |
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But
what if you're in a hurry? What if you don't have time to
make your own animation? I'll be able to do my own
animation when pigs fly. |
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Is
that a challenge? With my library of animation effects,
you can do all sorts of things easily. For example, I'm
going to help you make a pig fly. |
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Adding your own artwork
When you animate an object, you add special visual or
sound effects to it.
The following steps will show you how to animate a
cartoon image while working in Slide View.
1. Click the Slide View button to go to Slide
View.
2. On the slide, click the cartoon image to
select it.
3. On the Formatting Toolbar, click the
Animation Effects button. The Animation Effects Toolbar
will appear.
4. On the Animation Effects Toolbar, click the
Flying Effect button. The flying effect is now added to
the image.
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Another
thing I can do is animate text. This is a great thing to
do with titles and credits. For example, you can make text
appear as if it is being typed letter by letter by a
typewriter. |
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This
is just blowing my mind. It looks like the title sequence
from a movie or something! |
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Animating Text
Try adding the typewriter effect to text on your slide.
1. In Slide View, select the text you want to
animate by clicking it.
2. On the Animation Effects Toolbar, click the
Typewriter Text Effect button. The typewriter text
effect is now added to the text.
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Can
you also animate charts? | |
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You
know it. This is really an effective tool. Let's say
you're doing a chart on how the ozone layer has been
depleted in the past 100 years. You can have the chart
start in 1900, and reveal the depletion year by year. By
the time you reach the present year, revealing depletion
at it's worst, people will really understand your point. |
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Wow!
What an impact. That ozone is heavy stuff. Does that mean
I can't use hair spray? |
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Let's
save that for another show. For today, let me show you how
to animate the chart, instead. |
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Animating a chart
You can make charts more interesting by animating them. In
a Slide Show, an unanimated chart appears onscreen all at
once. When you animate a chart, the chart appears
"bit by bit". You specify the way the elements
of the chart will appear in the Custom Animation dialog
box.
Try animating a chart so that the elements of the chart
are introduced onscreen by category.
1. In Slide View, click the chart you want to
animate.
2. On the Animation Effects Toolbar, click the
Custom Animation button. The Custom Animation dialog box
will appear.
3. In the Introduce chart elements
drop-down list, click by Category.
4. Click OK. The Custom Animation box closes and
the animation effect is applied to the chart.
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Let's
say I create this really cool sequence where my banner
flies in, then my charts, then some text, then a flying
pig. What happens if I want to change the order? What if I
want the pig to fly in first? |
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Hey,
you're the director and you get to make those choices.
With PowerPoint you have complete control over animation
order. |
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Changing animation order
Normally, the object that is animated first appears first,
but you can rearrange the order. Here's what you do:
1. Click the object you want to change. For
example, the flying pig.
2. On the Animation Effects Toolbar, click the
drop-down list and select the number 1.
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Okay,
I've reordered the animation. Now, how can I preview it to
make sure it works right? |
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Previewing an animation
PowerPoint lets you preview animation settings for your
current slide without running the entire slide show.
1. In Slide View, go to the slide you want to
preview.
2. Click the Slide Show menu, then
click Animation Preview.
A slide miniature appears in the upper right corner. It
shows the full animation effects of the slide.
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