Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

We have already explored what animation is?, and what are the guidelines to be considered before you add an animation to a slide object within PowerPoint. You can animate any slide object that is selectable on your slide. These slide objects include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. Once the slide object is animated, you can tweak the animation to control how the slide object appears, moves, and disappears in the Slide Show view. Before you tweak, you must first add an animation to the slide object, as explained in the following steps:

1. Create a new presentation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac,
2. insert a shape and select it. Alternatively, open any existing presentation and select an unanimated slide object. We selected a star shape, as shown in Figure 1, below. With the shape selected, click the Animations tab of the Ribbon, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1.
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   Figure 1: Animations tab of the Ribbon
2. Within the Animations tab, locate the Entrance Effects group and hover your cursor over the preview thumbnails to reveal a down-arrow (More) button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: More button within the Entrance Effects group
3. Click this More button to open the Entrance Effects drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3, below. Within the Entrance Effects drop-down gallery, you will see various Entrance Effect animation preview thumbnails, grouped into four different categories named Basic, Subtle, Moderate, and Exciting. Just click on any one thumbnail to apply the associated animation to your selected slide object. In Figure 3, you can see that we have selected the Zoom entrance animation within the Moderate category.
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   Figure 3: Entrance Effects drop-down gallery
4. As soon as the selected animation effect has been applied to the slide object, you can see a digit (for example the digit 1, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4, along with the selected slide object, indicating that an animation has been applied to it. In Figure 4, since you see only 1 without any 2, 3, etc., you can assume that this slide requires you to click just once while in Slide Show mode to see all animations on the slide. By default, all animations applied are set to play on click.
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   Figure 4: Animation applied to the slide object
5. Once you are done with applying an animation, you can preview it by clicking the Play button within the Preview group of Animations tab that you can see in Figure 5. You can also play the slide in Slide Show view to preview the animation.
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   Figure 5: Play button used to preview the animation
6. You can add animation effects other than Entrance in the same way. Just choose the relevant animation effects for Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Path animations.

Now that you have added an animation to a slide object, you can control more animation properties like event and speed.