Animation
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Last Updated: March 4th 2009
11/07/2009 11:47 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Effective Animation: Conversation with Glen Millar
Glen Millar is a MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Microsoft PowerPoint. Based near Brisbane, Australia, Glen is a regular on the Microsoft support newsgroups, and a featured speaker at PowerPoint Live. In this conversation, Glen talks about effective animation principles, and about animation builds.
06/05/2009 12:43 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Changing an Animation
Many times, users just remove an animation and apply another one instead. The need to change an animation may arise for several reasons: You realize that another animation type would work better in a given slide, or you want to make all animations across the entire presentation consistent, or you want to use a more subtle or exciting animation. Whatever your need may be, you need to remove an animation, and then add another one -- PowerPoint's Change animation option makes this a one-click step.
05/19/2009 02:58 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animating Text
As part of the animation tutorials series, I have showed you how you can add an animation to any slide object in PowerPoint. However, there's more to animating text than just adding an animation since PowerPoint provides specialized options for animating paragraphs and bulleted text. In this tutorial we will learn how you can use these special options to animate text sequentially by words, by letters, and by paragraph levels.
05/16/2009 05:06 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animating Charts
In PowerPoint you can animate any slide object, but some objects have extra animation options. These objects include charts and bulleted text, and in this tutorial we will work with chart animation in PowerPoint. Since animation is largely unchanged in PowerPoint versions 2002 through 2007, we'll cover all those versions in this tutorial.
05/16/2009 01:37 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Studio-Max: Conversation with Max Wijgergangs
Max Wijgergangs is the owner of a Dutch PowerPoint presentation company, Studio-Max. Max admits that he bought his first computer only in 2001, until which time he knew practically nothing about computers and PowerPoint. But he made up for that lost time soon by rapidly discovering all kind of possibilities working with Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe graphics software. This remained a big passion, but it was still a hobby until 4 years later, when he decided to quit his regular job. He launched Studio-Max with a goal to provide the Dutch market with professionally designed PowerPoint presentations. Since then, his energy focused on taking PowerPoint presentations to a higher level that has allowed Studio-Max to become a known name.
03/31/2009 02:46 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Removing an Animation
Before you start with removing an animation, there is something you need to decide. Do you want to remove both the animation and the slide object that is animated? Or do you want to just remove the animation, and let the slide object be? Or maybe you don't want to remove the animation or the slide object -- you just want to change the animation?
03/30/2009 12:54 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animation Speed
When you add animation to any slide object, and set the animation event for it to occur, the next thing to do is set the speed of the animation. In this tutorial, I explore speed presets in PowerPoint that determine how long an animation takes to complete.
03/30/2009 12:26 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Cool Stuff: Animated Headshots
Learn how to animate a series of headshots -- very useful for an opening slide sequence. You can also use the same technique for product shots or vacation pictures -- just substitute the headshots!
12/30/2008 04:20 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: People Animation in PowerPoint with Motion Paths
This sample presentation shows you how you can use motion path animations in PowerPoint on ungrouped vector objects to create a very effective introduction or section slide.
12/10/2008 12:43 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animation Events
Before you learn to add animation to any slide object, do remember that there are three ways in which your animation can be set to play. These are called animation events. By default, if you don't change anything PowerPoint sets the event to On Click.
12/09/2008 01:45 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint: Reference
We took every single motion path animation available in PowerPoint including the preset and custom options -- and created this sample online presentation that you can use as a reference to preview.
12/04/2008 03:25 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Animation Factory: The Indezine Review
AnimationFactory.com is a huge resource of visual content that I have known for a very long time now. Founded in 1996, the site now comprises over 500,000 animations, video backgrounds,
12/02/2008 12:29 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Entrance, Emphasis, and Exit Animations
We put up three online presentations that show every animation effect for the entrance, emphasis, and exit animations in PowerPoint. Bookmark these pages as a reference!
11/27/2008 02:12 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Adding an Animation
I explained what animation is, and what guidelines you need to follow before you add an animation to a slide object in PowerPoint. You can add animation to any slide object in PowerPoint -- including text, charts, shapes, pictures, clip art, etc.
11/26/2008 11:36 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Types of Animation
Now that I have discussed what animation is (and where you should draw the limits as far as animation goes), let me get started showing you how you can work with animation in PowerPoint. All animation in PowerPoint can be divided into four categories.
