Preset animation schemes

Apply a scheme

1. In Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®, on the Slide Show menu, click Animation Schemes.
2. Do one of the following:
   • For selected slides, select the slide thumbnails and click a scheme.
   • For all slides, click a scheme, and then click Apply to All Slides.

Remove a scheme

Same logic as above except you click No Animation in the list of schemes.

Replace a scheme

Just click a different scheme; you don't need to remove the original one first.

Note    A new scheme that you apply will replace effects already applied to title and body text placeholders; it won't touch effects you've applied to charts, diagrams, text boxes, pictures, shapes, or anything else whose effect had to be applied manually (through custom animation).

With more than one slide master

If you have multiple design templates in your presentation, the button Apply to Master enables you to apply the scheme just to slides that use the master of the selected thumbnail. Apply to All Slides applies the scheme to every master (hence, all slides). Behavior is similar for removing schemes.

Custom animation

Change (replace) an effect

1. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
2. In the task pane effects list, select the applied effect (or effects), OR click the effect's order number on the slide to select it in the list.
3. Click and select an effect from the menu.

In the effects list, to select effects out of order, press CTRL as you click. To select effects in order, select the first one, press SHIFT, select the last one.

Add an effect

1. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
2. With the task pane open, click the item (or items) on the slide that you want to add an effect to.
3. Click in the task pane, and select an effect from the menu.

To select more than one item, press CTRL as you click.

Tip    Another way to display the task pane: On the slide, right-click an item, such as a title or picture, then click Custom Animation on the shortcut menu.

Remove an effect

1. Select the effect (or effects) in the task pane effects list.
2. Click in the task pane.

Apply a start setting (With Previous, After Previous, and so on)

1. Select the effect (or effects) in the task pane effects list.
2. Do either of these:
   • In the Start box in the task pane, click the type of start you want.
   • Display the drop-down menu for the effect, and click the type of start you want.

Copy master effects to the slide

Schemes added to all slides get applied to the slide master. In the task pane effects list, these appear in light gray and read "Master:Title" and "Master:Body."

1. Click either one of these effects, then click its down arrow.
2. Click Copy effects to slide on the drop-down menu.

   The items are copied to the slide and you can now edit them in normal view.

Text, sound, pictures

Animate a list line by line

1. Click the list on the slide.
2. Click in the Custom Animation task pane and select the effect you want.

By word or letter

• Do steps 1 and 2, above, then click the effect (only the first item shows in a collapsed list) in the effects list, display its drop-down menu, click Effect Options, and select By word or By letter from the Animate Text list.

Add sound; dim or hide an item

Click the effect in the effects list, display its drop-down menu, click Effect Options, and make a selection in the Sound and After Animation lists.

Tips for interspersing pictures within a list

• Apply the text entrance effect to the list first (click the list and add the effect).
• For each picture: Insert the picture, add an entrance effect and then an exit effect, and then drag these effects to the correct order in the effects list.
• Give the picture effects the correct start settings.
• To select a hidden picture on the slide, select the top one you can see and press TAB to cycle through everything on the slide, OR press SHIFT + TAB to cycle through in the reverse direction.

Tips and more information

Transition effects

Transitions might be part of some schemes but can also be applied separately using the Slide Transition command (Slide Show menu). The Slide Transition task pane is similar to the one for schemes. Here, you can also set slides to advance automatically, something you'd do for a self-running show at a kiosk. The animation icon shows next to a slide that has a transition.

Motion path effects/Tips on timing

You add motion paths through the Custom Animation task pane. And you fine-tune animation timing using the Advanced Timeline in that pane.

For in-depth instruction see these courses:

• Animations II: Motion paths
• Animations III: Timing

Task pane navigation and display

• Arrow at the top right in any task pane displays a drop-down list with links to all the task panes.
• Back or forward arrow on the top left of any task pane switches between recently opened panes.

3-D graphics card for best performance

Animation performance is better if your computer has a video card with Microsoft Direct 3D® (called a "3-D graphics card" by some vendors). Direct 3D is a component of Microsoft DirectX® — a set of advanced multimedia system services built into the Microsoft Windows® operating system. Check your computer's documentation to see if Direct 3D is supported.