1. 2.05 PowerPoint Apply Transitions and Animations

2. Transitions  Transitions are movements from one slide to another during a presentation.   A transition can add the checkerboard effect to each slide.   On Mouse Click is the option which indicates that a presentation should wait for a mouse click prior to moving to the next slide.

3. Transitions  The Duration command is used to specify the length of the transition effect for each slide in a presentation.   If you want slide 1 to stay on the screen for 30 seconds use Duration.   If you do not want the sound clip icon to display during a slideshow use Hide During Show.

4. Animation  Use animation to add visual interest such as having planes fly in on a slide.  Entrance is the commonly used animation effect makes text on a slide appear in the presentation.

5. Animation  The animation effect adds interest to a slide show and focuses audience attention on important points by adding entrances, emphasis, motion paths, or exits to text or objects.  You can go to add animation to create entrance and exit animation.  The Effect Options command is used to view the various options that can be applied to an animation.

6. Animation  Animation pane is used to reorder slides.  Reorder Animation is used to switch slides around to be more audience friendly.  To reverse the order of the entrance of drums and french horns on slide seven use the Animation Pane.

7. Animation  The Animations ribbon contains commands that apply an entrance effect to a chart.  The animation painter will apply the same animation from slide 3 to 5.

8. Animation  The Preview command is used to test animations on a slide before delivering the presentation.  A trigger is used to maintain the audience’s interest such as when you click on a horn it beeps.