Let's say you have used a Fade animation for a slide object, and now you want to use
a Wipe animation instead. It's been observed that most of the time, users may
remove
an animation and
apply
another one rather than changing one animation into another. This may be because in
PowerPoint 2013, there is no particular option within
the interface that changes the animation. But there is still a very easy one-click operation to change an existing
animation to another one, as you will learn in this tutorial. The need to change an animation may
arise for several reasons:
- You realize that another animation type would work better
- You want to make all animations across all slides in the presentation consistent
- You want to use a more subtle or exciting animation
Follow these steps to change an existing animation effect to another one:
- Before you start, make a duplicate copy of your slide in the presentation. This is easily
achieved by selecting the slide in
Slide Sorter view
(see also
PowerPoint 2013 Views)
or within the Slides pane,
and pressing Ctrl+D. This duplicates the slide, and it's good to know that you have
a copy of the slide that you can go back to just in case!
- Next, make the Animation Pane visible, by accessing the Animations
tab of the Ribbon and clicking the
Animation Pane button, as shown highlighted in red within
Figure 1.
Figure 1: Animation Pane button
Note: The Animation Pane makes it easy to select animations, and also
ascertain whether your selected animation changed.
- Now, select the particular animation which you want to change to another animation, as shown in
Figure 2.
Figure 2: Animation to be changed is selected
- Go to the Animations tab of the Ribbon, and within the
Animation group, click the downward pointing arrow (highlighted in
red within Figure 3).
Figure 3: More button for the Animation gallery
- This opens the Animation gallery, as shown in Figure 4. Note that the
selected slide object already has an
Entrance
(Shape) effect applied. Choose any of the other animations to replace the existing animation. For this tutorial,
we clicked on the
Emphasis
(Teeter) effect, highlighted in red within Figure 4.
Figure 4: New animation selected within the Animation gallery
Note that as you hover the cursor over the animation thumbnails within the Animation gallery,
you can view a Live Preview of
the animation. Click the animation thumbnail to remove the previous animation, and apply the new animation
effect to the selected shape.
- Save your presentation.
See Also:
Change Animations in PowerPoint
2016 for Windows
Changing
an Animation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Changing an
Animation in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
Changing an Animation
in PowerPoint 2002, 2003, and 2007 for Windows