How to add a custom animation to a 2010 PowerPoint Presentation To assist Mr. Jamieson and keep track of your progress, if you have any difficulty, go back three steps and see if you forgot something before raising your hand for assistance.

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For full credit on this assignment, you need to have at least one instance of custom animation on each slide, and have at least one example of an Entrance, an Exit, an Emphasis and a Motion Path in the slideshow. (Note: you are not expected to have one of each of the four types of animation on each slide – just one If you’re still not sure, check with Mr. J ) Open your PowerPoint file and Save as… into your folder on the mvs_student_share T: drive as: animation-your period-your name

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Example: animation-3B-John Student

Click on the Animations ribbon tab.

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If the animations (as shown above) appear to be grayed out, it’s because nothing is selected on your slide, yet. Click on a slide with an object you wish to animate. Then, click on the object. It can be a text box, an icon, an arrow or an image. If can select it, you can animate it.

Clicking on the down arrow next to Effect Options

will give you a menu of instant animation effects that you simply click once on to activate.

Whether you choose to do it the easy way (above) or would prefer more options, it’s always a good idea to open the Animation Pane found in the Advanced Animation section of your ribbon:

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When you click on it, a panel opens on the right side of your screen.

This panel allows you to control how your animations behave on your slide.

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Now, it’s up to you to decide the animation effects you plan to us for any given object on any given slide. Note: it’s not necessary to animate everything. When you animate an object it should have a purpose. That purpose is ultimately to make your slideshow more interesting, to make a point or both. Entrances (green in color) are used to cause a text or image to enter the slide either dramatically or at a specific moment of your choosing. Exits (red) are used to move text or images off the slide. This can be to make room for something else to take its place or for dramatic effect. Emphasis (yellow) is an

effect on text or an object in the slide to call attention to it during the time the slide is visible. Use this sparingly, as it can be rather annoying. Motion Paths are meant to be used to move an object, text or image from one place to another for a specific reason – not just because you can. As previously stated, all of the above can be accessed quickly in the pull down animation menu. But, if you go to the bottom of the menu, you will find many more options available: 8.

By clicking on More Entrance Effects… a new window pops up with many more animations to use

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Note the grayed out options (Flip, Whip and Drop). In this case, the object selected is an image. The grayed out animations only work with text so are unavailable. A single (left) click on the effect will preview what it looks like 10.

If you double-click on it, you select it.

Clicking on the down arrow on the right of the animation effect as it is seen in the Animation Pane will open a menu: On Click: Your effect will not occur unless you physically advance the slide (left click, or press Enter, Spacebar or the right arrow key). 11.

With Previous: Your effect will simultaneously (at the same time) as the effect above it. You use this when you want two or more effects occurring at the same time. After Previous: Your effect will occur automatically after the previous effect, but only when the previous effect has completely finished. Clicking on Effect Option or Timing opens a window that allows you to control how and when the effect occurs

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In the Effect tab you can add a sound (not recommended) when your effect takes place:

Decide what occurs after the animation has 13. finished:

Or how the text is animated:

In the Timing tab, you can adjust the On Click, With Previous, etc. and you can 14. delay your animation effect several (as many as 99) seconds.

You can also control how fast or slow your effect happens:

And you can decide how many times your effect repeats itself

While you are deciding on how to make your animation interesting, keep in mind your slideshow is meant to entertain, not to annoy its audience. You can also control how fast or slow your effect happens: 15.

Another place that you can control effects is on the Animation ribbon here:

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and here:

The animation pane is also where you can the 17. order of how your animation will take place in your slideshow:

Each animation is numbered in the Animation Pane and had a corresponding number on the slide.

The order of the animation effects can be changed three ways: 1. By simply dragging and moving the effect in the Animation Pane 2. On the Animation ribbon 18.

3. At the bottom of the Animation Pane

Finally, if you want to preview how your slide animation is going to play, you can click on the Preview button on the far left of your tool ribbon. 19.

Note, it will not wait for On Click commands. As was mentioned previously, you need not animate everything in each slide. Usually, animating one object, or the text is sufficient. Less 20. is more. In a real world presentation, only animate that which you want to call people’s attention to, not just for the sake of animating. 21.

Don’t forget to save when you are done.