Introduction to sample animation effects

The most popular animation (animate: To add a special visual or sound effect to text or an object. For example, you can have your text bullet points fly in from the left, one word at a time, or hear the sound of applause when a picture is uncovered.) effects that you can use in your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations include entrance, exit, and sound effects applied to individual bullets of text, and motion paths (motion path: The path that a specified object or text will follow as part of an animation sequence for a slide.) applied to objects (object: A table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information. Objects created in one application, for example spreadsheets, and linked or embedded in another application are OLE objects.).

Apply entrance and exit animation effects to bullets of text

Use the steps below to add entrance and exit animation effects to bullets of text, select the trigger event that puts the effects in motion, and set the speed and direction for the motion of the effects.

Tip You can apply the steps in these procedures to objects as well. Instead of selecting text, select the object that you want to animate.

Apply an entrance animation effect

1. Select the first bullet of text that you want to add an entrance animation effect to.
2. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
3. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Entrance, and then click Fly In.
   
4. To specify the settings for the fly-in effect, under Modify: Fly In, do the following:
   • To specify how and when the fly-in effect will start, in the Start list, select On Click.
   • To specify the direction from which the bullet of text will start, in the Direction list, select From Left.
   • To specify the speed of the bullet of text, in the Speed list, select Very Fast
5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each bullet of text that you want to add this entrance animation effect to.
6. Test the animation effect.
   
   Note Effects appear in the Custom Animation list in the order that you add them.

Apply an exit animation effect

After adding an entrance effect to two bullets of text, your slide and the Custom Animation task pane looks something like this.

1. Select the first bullet of text that you want to add an exit animation effect to.
2. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Exit, and then click More effects.
   
   Note If you do not see the Custom Animation task pane, on the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
   
   Note If you do not see the Custom Animation task pane, on the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation
3. In the Add Exit Effect dialog box, under Subtle, click Faded Swivel, and then click OK.
   
4. To specify the settings for the exit effect, under Modify: Faded Swivel, do the following:
   
   • To specify how and when the exit effect will disappear by using the faded swivel pattern, in the Start list, select On Click.
   • To specify the speed at which the bullet of text disappears, in the Speed list, select Medium.
5. Select the second bullet of text that you want to add an exit animation effect to.
6. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Exit, and then click Checkerboard.
7. To specify the settings for the exit effect, under Modify: Checkerboard, do the following:
   
   • To specify when the exit effect will disappear using the checkerboard pattern, in the Start list, select After Previous.
     
     Note By choosing After Previous, the second bullet will disappear immediately after the first bullet disappears.
   • To specify the direction the exit effect will take using the checkerboard pattern, in the Direction list, select From Left.
   • To specify the speed at which the bullet of text disappears, in the Speed list, select Very Fast.
8. Repeat steps 1 through 7 for each bullet of text that you want to add this exit animation effect to.
9. Test the animation effect.
   
   Note Effects appear in the Custom Animation list in the order that you add them.
   
   Apply sound effects to bullets of text
   
   Use the steps below to apply sound effects to the bullets of text that you added animation effects to. To start, your slide looks something like this.
   
   And the Custom Animation task pane looks something like this.
   

Do the following:

1. In the Custom Animation task pane, in the Custom Animation list, click the arrow to the right of the animation effect applied to the first bullet of text, and then click Effect Options.
   
2. On the Effect tab, under Enhancements, in the Sound list, do one of the following:
   • Select a sound.
   • To add a sound from a file, select Other Sound, and then locate the sound file that you want to use.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each bullet of text that you want to add a sound effect to.
4. Test the animation effect.

Apply a motion path to an object

Important Before you apply a motion path (motion path: The path that a specified object or text will follow as part of an animation sequence for a slide.) to an object, you need to add the object, such as a picture or clip art, to a slide by using clip art (clip art: A single piece of ready-made art, often appearing as a bitmap or a combination of drawn shapes.) from the Microsoft Clip Organiser. Choose clip art or a picture that has a transparent background, because when you apply the motion path, the clip art appears (without a background) to be moving across the slide as a single object.

1. After you add the object to the slide, drag it to the location on the slide where you want the object to start moving from.
2. Click the object.
3. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
4. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Motion Paths, point to Draw Custom Path, and then click Scribble.
   
   Note The pointer becomes a pen.
5. Starting at the clip art or other object, draw the path that you want your object to follow on the slide, and then click where the object should stop moving.
6. Test the animation effect.
   
   1 The clip art object with the fourth animation effect applied to it
   2 The motion path
   3 The entrance animation effect applied to the first bullet of text
   4 The exit animation effect applied to the first bullet of text
   5 The entrance animation effect applied to the second bullet of text
   6 The exit animation effect applied to the second bullet of text
   
   Test your animation effects
   
   After you add one or more animation effects, to make sure that they work, click Play at the bottom of the Custom Animation task pane.