This next tutorial of the PowerPoint
animation series show you how you can add animation to a SmartArt graphic. We have already showed you how to
add an animation to any slide
object in PowerPoint.
Follow these steps to apply animation to a chart. In this example we use a common column chart, but the concepts
remain the same with other chart types:
- Insert a SmartArt on the PowerPoint slide. Learn how to insert
SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007.
- Next, make sure that the Custom Animation Task Pane is visible, as shown in Figure 1.
If this Task Pane is not visible, you won't be able to see or select any animations.
For PowerPoint 2007 users, make sure that the SmartArt is selected, then activate the
Animations tab of the Ribbon. Next click the Custom Animation button
to bring up a Task Pane of the same name that you can see in Figure 1. Remember, this is a toggle option:
click once to show the Custom Animation Task Pane, and click again to hide it!
Figure 1: Custom Animation Task Pane
- In the Custom Animation Task Pane click the Add Effect button, as shown in
Figure 2.
Figure 2: Add Effect
- This opens a fly-out menu that lets you select any of the
four animation types that
PowerPoint provides. For this tutorial, I chose the Entrance option, which opens another fly-out menu that you
can see in Figure 2 above.
- Choose any of the animation styles in this fly-out menu, or choose More Effects to see more animation options.
We won't go into detail about adding an animation here since we have already covered that part in our
Adding an Animation in PowerPoint 2002,
2003 and 2007 tutorial. We chose the Wipe animation and selected the From Bottom
direction (look ahead at Figure 3).
- Now right-click the animation item in the Custom Animation Task Pane and choose Effect
Options from the resultant context menu, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Effect Options
- This summons a multi-tabbed dialog box as shown in Figure 4. Click the SmartArt Animation
tab, and from the Group graphic drop-down list, choose any of the options:
• As One Object: Animates the entire SmartArt at one go.
• All At Once: Animates all SmartArt shapes at one go.
• One by One: Animates SmartArt shapes one by one.
• From Center at Once: Animates the SmartArt from center at one go.
• From Center One by One: Animates the SmartArt from center one by one.
Figure 4: SmartArt Animation
- You can set the animation to play in reverse order by choosing Reverse Order check box (see
Figure 5).
Figure 5: Reverse Order
- Click OK to apply, and save your presentation.
See Also:
Animating SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
for Windows
Animating SmartArt in PowerPoint
2011 for Mac
