Learn how you can control animation timings with the Advanced Timeline in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. You'll need to zoom in or out and drag sliders to alter animation timings.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
The main advantage of using the Advanced Timeline is to edit the timing and sequencing of your animations. You can easily control the start time, duration, and end time of your animation to the most minute level. In addition, you can also animate any slide object very slowly to span over a whole minute or more by just dragging the start and end points of any animation bar outwards in the timeline. We have already explored how to show/hide the Advanced Timeline within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
Follow the steps to learn how to control animations with help of Advanced Timeline within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows:
The duration (speed) of any animation is its end time minus its start time. As in the example shown in Figure 1, that would be 1 second minus 0 seconds, thus the duration for this particular animation is 1 second.
Note that you just changed the start time. You can drag the animation bar rightwards or leftwards, as long as you do not go to a point before 0 seconds. Also, from the three animation events (On Click, After Previous, and With Previous), the After Previous animations can only be dragged rightwards.
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