• Effect Options
• Reordering Items

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Applying Custom Animation

Custom animation enables you to animate text, graphics, charts, and other items on your slides. You can control how and when an item appears on a slide during your presentation. For example, you can have a title fly in from the right or the bottom and then spin around. You can have each word appear one at a time or each letter of a word slowly appear. You can have different items on a slide appear and exit in different ways for emphasis. You could have a bulleted item fly in and then fly out. You can opt to play a sound with the animation as well.

Practice: Applying Custom Animations

1. Click Slide 2 to select it, and then switch to Normal View.
2. With Slide 2 in the Slide Pane, click Slide Show on the menu bar, and then click Custom Animation.



The Custom Animation Task Pane appears to the right of the Slide Pane. A number appears next to each bulleted item and a number is assigned to each animated item in the slide. If you animate other objects, they will be assigned new numbers for you to use to customize the animation.
3. Click anywhere within the bulleted list text box to select it. This box contains animation items 1 through 7, but only item 1 (called Text 2) appears in the Custom Animation Task Pane. See the figure below.  The other items are part of the same text box and so aren’t displayed.
4. In the Task Pane, click animation item 1. Text 2: HelpDesk to select it and click its list arrow (when your mouse passes over the arrows a screen tip indicated “Click to expand contents”).



The expanded list appears as shown below with all of the numbered items you can animate.



Once you’ve selected the item, a list arrow appears on the right with a drop-down menu (see below).

Effect Options

Make sure you have selected all the bulleted items and click Effect Options to display the Effect Options dialog box (see below).

1. Click the Sound list arrow, drag the scroll bar down to the bottom, and then click Whoosh to add this sound effect to the progressive disclosure.
2. In the Task Pane, click the After animation list arrow (see below). 



Click the left-most tile on the row of color tiles), and then click the OK button. The slide automatically animates the progressive disclosure. Each bulleted item ascends and then dims, one by one. You can also click on the Play button to see how the progressive disclosure works on this slide.  You might want to change the Speed from Fast to Medium.
3. Select the title text box and then click the Add Effect list arrow shown at the top of the Task Pane, point to Entrance, and then click Fly In. PowerPoint automatically animates the object to fly in from the bottom.



4. Click the Direction list arrow, and then click From Right. Leave the Speed at Very Fast.



5. To change the animation order by moving the title text box up,  click the Expand icon just below the Text 2 animation item, if necessary, to display all the bulleted items, 1 through 5.

Reordering Items

1. If necessary, click the object 6 animation item, either in the slide or in the Task Pane, and then click the Re-Order move up arrow located near the bottom of the Task Pane. Continue clicking until it is the first item. (Your screen might have a Trigger section below the list of animation items.)



2. Go to slide 8 and select the picture of the kitty playing Solitaire.  Click on the Add Effect drop down list and select Entrance and then More Effects.



Choose Wedge in the Add Entrance Effect dialog box.



3. Then animate the title text box to Fly In. Leave the direction From Bottom. After you animate these objects, each one will be listed on the Task Pane. Each animated object listed in the Custom Animation Task Pane has a mouse icon indicating that during the slide show animation occurs by clicking the left mouse button (or by pressing the spacebar).  If you want the picture and captions animated automatically, without having to press the mouse button, set them to animate automatically.



4. Click the Start list arrow in the Task Pane, and then click With Previous, which means that during the slide show, animation will start at the same time as the animation of the previous object. In other words, it will animate automatically without a mouse click. You can also select After Previous, and then set the timing so there's a delay by a certain amount of time before the object begins to animate. Now all these objects animate automatically. See the figure below.



5. Click the Slide Show button at the bottom of the Task Pane to begin the slide show with Slide 8 and view your custom animation. Then press the Esc key to return to Slide View.
6. Go to Slide 3 and select the organization chart.  On the Add Effect drop-down list choose Emphasis  and Spin (see below).  Click the Play button to see this effect. 



7. Close the Task Pane and save the presentation.  Then go on to the next section on Adding a Summary Slide.

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