Essential PowerPoint Animations Tips

Essential PowerPoint Animations Tips

There are four types of animations in PowerPoint:

You can add many animations to one object. This permits you to create all kinds of complex animations. However, this can also be a time-consuming process. One production tip is to use the cartoon painter to copy animations from one thing to another. This is particularly helpful if you need to replicate an animation on a different object.

Triggering PowerPoint Animations

I’ve been reviewing a lot of the old PowerPoint tutorials that I’ve published previously. Most are still applicable, but some have changed. In this post, we’ll do a refresh on the basics on PowerPoint animations.

Here are a few cool PowerPoint animation tutorials as well as a bunch more. They ought to spur a variety of ideas.

• On click: thing doesn’t animate until mouse click activates the animation. This is exactly what you need if you are syncing animations with narration to your e-learning courses.
• With previous: object animates with the previous animation. Additionally, it animates automatically if it’s the first thing on the screen.
• After previous: object animates after the previous animation.

PowerPoint Animation Painter

When using motion paths, pick one of the pre-built motion paths as opposed to drawing your own. You’ll wind up with fewer edit points which will make the animation along the path much smoother. Should you need to draw a custom path, use the curved shape tool and edit the points.

As soon as you understand the basics of PowerPoint animations you’ll have the ability to create virtually anything you want and build e-learning classes in PowerPoint that will not give away that they were created in PowerPoint.

PowerPoint Animation Basics

You can also set triggers in PowerPoint to animate on other actions, such as clicking on a shape. These work great in PowerPoint by itself but are something I’d avoid when converting PowerPoint slides to an e-learning class.

Published at Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:46:52 +0000
Use the selection pane [Home>Select>Selection Pane] to edit the names of the items on the slide. It makes it far easier to understand what is going on in the animation pane.

---

• You can see the stacking order of animated objects.
• How the items are timed to the timeline.
• Clicking on the drop down arrow displays more advanced PowerPoint animation possibilities such as start/stop results and timing.

Animations are generally triggered by three things:
Have you got any PowerPoint animation tips?

• Entrance: thing comes on to the slide
• Exit: thing leaves the slide
• Emphasis: thing stays in place, but animates to provide emphasis or become a focal point
• Motion path: object follows a drawn path.

Upcoming E-Learning Events

• Articulate Roadshows. Join us for a couple of days of e-learning goodness. Day 1 focuses on more general e-learning subjects and Day 2 is centered on learning to create some nice, reusable interactions. They’re great   activities that will help you find out more about the tools. Sign up using the links below. Seats are limited for the events.   If you are interested in presenting at one of the roadshows, let me know.
• Toronto: August 9 & 10. Register here.
• Seattle: August 21 & 22. Register here.
• Austin: September 12 & 13. Early bird rate expires August 28.  Register here.
• San Francisco: October 10 & 11. Early bird rate expires September 15.  Seats limited for this event. Register here.
• London: November 13 & 14. Details coming soon.
• Manchester: November 16 & 17. Seats will be limited. Details coming soon.

• There are a few other events planned. Once we get all of the bookings confirmed, we’ll add the enrollment page and info.

---

 

Free E-Learning Resources

The PowerPoint animation pane provides you more control of the PowerPoint animations.

When choosing animations, keep in mind that you will find additional animation options at the bottom of the selection panel. And not all cartoons are encouraged when converted for e-learning. And one final tip, because it’s possible to animate doesn’t mean you should.
When you pick an animation and if it should start, you also have the option to set its length and whether to delay or not. As soon as you understand how to time cartoons, you are able to compound them and create all kinds of effects.

Source: TPD Study Tips Feed