PowerPoint XP

Adding Custom Animation

You can also decide how text and other slide elements 'perform' by using custom animation. You can add effect, set speed and direction, and animate text on your own.

For example, you can decide how words or graphics enter or exit a slide. You may want to begin by adding effect to the titles in your presentation.

To Add Effect to Text:

• Open the presentation you want to add an effect to.
• Click on the down-pointing arrow in the Task Pane Custom Animation.

• Click the text that you want to add an effect to.
• The Add Effect button will be activated. (Note the button is inactive until you select a part of the slide to work on)

• Click on Add Effect Entrance.
• A list of options appears for the entrance including Blinds, Box, Checkboard, and Fly In.
• Decide how your text will appear on the screen and choose an option.
• You can easily remove the effect by clicking Remove. Or, you can modify it by setting direction and speed underneath Modify. (PowerPoint lets you know the specific effect by listing it next to Modify. For example, Modify: Blinds).

Emphasis and Exit

If you want to add an effect to make text or graphics grow, shrink, or change in another way, click on Add Effect Emphasis. Choose an effect. If you want to add an effect to have text or graphics exit the slide, click on Add Effect Exit. Choose the effect.