Animations are a great technique that give life to your presentations and makes them dynamic.
They will help you keep the audience's attention and emphasize the key points of your messages.
The most common types of animations are entrances and exits.
If you would like to add an animation effect to a given object then you can do the following.
Select the object go to the animations tab and click on Add animation.
Once the menu opens you can select the type of animation effect which you would like to introduce.
For example will select the blue box in this slide and apply the fade entrance effect in order to do
that.
We will click on fade.
It is as simple as that.
Let's create an animation effect for the red rectangular box as well.
This time let's use the fly in entrance effect
OK.
Perfect.
We created 2 animation effects.
Let's take a look at them in slideshow mode initially the slide is empty.
Then after we press the left mouse button in comes the blue box and then after another click the red
box flies into the slide.
These are the effects that we have just created.
There is a large variety of animation effects that you can choose from but be careful as some animations
can potentially distract your audience.
When we click on an object that has been animated we can see that there is a number on its top left
corner.
In this case it is one when we click on the other object.
The number is two.
This number shows the order of appearance that the given object has the first object that was assigned
an animation effect appears first when the slideshow is launched.
This is how the default ordering works if we would like to change that.
We can open up the animation pane within the animations tab.
Here we can select a given animation and change its order of appearance by dragging it to the point
where we would like it to appear.
We can also use the two buttons move earlier and move later which we will see in the animations tab.
Let's invert the order of the two animations OK.
Now I'll again press the slideshow shortcut F5 in order to see whether the changes that we carried out
are applied.
The appearance of each animation is triggered by a left click of the mouse or by the space button of
the keyboard.
Here it is.
First we see the red box fly into the slide and then the blue box appears.
The changes that we made were included.
Good we can exit the slide show mode.
This is how we can create and adjust animation effects in PowerPoint.
Thank you for watching.