LEARNING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2000
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Chapter 8. Applying Animation Effects.
You can apply various animation effects to the slide to give a presentation greater impact. However, as with slide design you have to choose animation carefully. You want the content of the slide to be the audience's focus. Too much animation can be distracting and annoying.

The best way to discover the effects of the different animation tools is to experiment with using them. Follow the steps here to gain an initial understanding and then explore animation further on your own.

Slide Show View
Before applying animation, view your slides as a slide presentation.

Step 8.1 Ensure you are on slide 1. Click on the 'slide show' button.

Figure 8.1.

The slides now appear on the screen as your audience will see them.

Step 8.2 Click to move to slide 2. Click to return to the PowerPoint screen.

In the next step, you will apply some animation and then view the slides again.

Step 8.3 Make sure you are at slide 1. Highlight and select the title. Click on the 'double arrow' button on the standard toolbar. Click on 'Animation Effects'

Figure 8.2.

The Animation Effects toolbar shown in figure 8.3 appears.

Figure 8.3.

To apply animation involves two steps:

• you indicate the object you want to animate
• you choose the animation you want for it.

Animate the title
Indicate that it's the title you want to animate.

Step 8.4 Click on the 'animate title' button. Choose which effect you want to apply.

Step 8.5 Click the 'flying effect' button.

Animate the text
Indicate it is the text you want to animate.

Step 8.6 Click the 'build text' button. You don't need to choose a build effect. PowerPoint automatically applies an animation type that is appropriate for this slide.

Animate the shape object
Indicate it is the explosion shape you want to animate.

Step 8.7 Select the explosion shape in your slide. Indicate the effect you want for it.

Step 8.8 Click on the 'camera effect' button.

View Animation Effects
To view the effects of the animation:

Step 8.9 Click on the 'slide show' button. Click the mouse button to move through the effects and each slide.

Exercise 3
1. Apply some animation to slide 2.

2. Create the slide shown below to create a third slide in your presentation. It contains a title, text and Clip Art.

3. View the presentation.

4. Save the presentation.