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It can make your PowerPoint more attractive and interatcive when applying multiple animations to text, pictures, shapes, captions, tables, characters, graphics, or any other object on PowerPoint slides. So, how to add multiple animations in PowerPoint? There must be some people failing to create animation in PowerPoint. You will know details in this tutorial How to Add Multiple Animation Effects to PowerPoint 2010.
Overview:
How to insert animation in PowerPoint 2010? What can you do to make pictures or text fly in, split, or float out? Now follow the steps to learn how to add more than one animation in PowerPoint 2010.
Step 1. Open PowerPoint 2010 and select the object or text that you want to animate.
Step 2. Select Animations on your toolbar and click Add Animation in the Advanced Animation group to choose an animation effect from different types of effects, such as Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, or Motion Paths.
Step 3. After you choose an animation, go to Effect Options to choose an effect for the animation, such as direction, spokes and etc.
Step 4. Select Add Animation again and apply additional animation effect, continue to repeat this way until you create your desired animation effects.
Attention: There is one point that deserves your attention. After applying the first animation effect, if you try to add more animation effects any other way other than clicking Add Animation, you'll replace the existing effect with the one you're adding instead of applying a different new additional effect.
Now you know how to put animation in PowerPoint 2010, but do you know how to modify them? After you have added multiple animations to an object or a text in PowerPoint, you can change the way the animations appear on the slide. It helps a lot to work in the Animation Pane to modify multiple animation effects, where you can see a list of all the animation effects for the current slide.
Step 1. Click Animation Pane, and then the Animation Pane dialog box will open.
Step 2. Select the down arrow next to the effect you want to modify. From here, you can change when the animation starts, effect options, timing and other settings.
Step 3. Choose when the animation starts to play from the following three choices:
Start On Click: Start an animation after a mouse click on a slide.
Start With Previous: Play an animation at the same time as the previous animation.
Start After Previous: Appear an animation immediately after the previous animation finishes.
Step 4. Click Effect Options to do settings such as direction, sounds and text animation.
Step 5. Click Timing to do custom timing settings, such as start, delay, duration, or repeat. Besides,
Duration: Specify the length of an animation to lengthen or shorten an effect.
Delay: Play the animation after a certain number of seconds.
Step 6. Modify the options for each effect that you have applied to the object.
Tip: You can preview an animation effect by selecting the object and select Preview in the Animation ribbon.
After you add more animations to one object, you may want to reorder the animations in order to get your desired effects. You can change the order by the following steps.
Step 1. Click the object, open Animation Pane and select an animation.
Step 2. Use the up and down arrows at the bottom of the Animation Pane dialog box to change the animation order.
Or click the order number of the animation and go to Reorder Animation ribbon and click one of the two choices:
Move Earlier: Move the current animation to paly earlier in the sequence.
Move Later: Move the current animation to play later in the sequence.
You can move the target object across the PowerPoint slide by using a Motion Path Animation. Here are the steps to create a Motion Path Animation.
Step 1. Select the object that you need to animate.
Step 2. Select Animation on the toolbar, click the downward pointing arrow of Animation, and choose Motion Path like Lines, Arcs, Turns, Shapes, and Loops. Or Click more Motion Path to get more effects.
Tip: You can choose Custom Path to create your own Motion Path, drag to draw Motion Path on the PowerPoint slide. Press Esc when you finish, and then the animation effect will demonstrate on the slide.
Step 3. Select Effect Options to add custom options to the motion path animation. You can choose to edit points or reverse path direction.
That's all on how to add animation to PowerPoint 2010. Once you complete these steps, you will succeed in inserting animation in PowerPoint.
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