First some catch-up.
Everyone who uses slide presentation software should
regularly check their show in show mode. This is the
end product. You need to see what it looks like and how
it works. Hopefully you did this on the last assignment
with buttons and interactivity.
The easy way to check your show is with the show
button in the bottom right. It’s the button that looks like
this:
(Use the Esc key to exit the show and get back to working mode.)
PowerPoint Animation
(screen shots are from Office 365)
Did you know you can use your arrow keys to go to the next and previous slide?
PowerPoint animation features have had significant upgrades in
the past couple versions of the software. Even though
PowerPoint would not be considered “animation software”, there
are a lot of ways to be creative with the tools and options that
are available.
First you need an object to animate, like the ball on this slide.
Select the ball object and open the top menu Animations tab.
The Animation Pane option
is your doorway to animation
power in PowerPoint.
With the object selected
and the Animation Pane
open, start by selecting
an entrance effect from
these options. Each
effect has timing options
too.
Play around with these Effects. Some are better than others. Some are visually
annoying if overused. You can add as many effects as you want to a single
object, they can play one right after another. A typical sequence would be an
entrance effect and an exit effect, with time in between the two if desired.
Play this slide to see the animation effects.
Entrance effect.
Time between.
Exit effect.
Then go to the next slide for some info about the Animation Pane.
Here is how the Animation Pane looks with
the default settings. See the little mouse
icons, this means the viewer has to click to
see the effect. We don’t want this, we want it
to play automatically
You can make a lot of changes and be in control if you understand how the tools and settings work.
The picture below is how we want the Animation Pane to look for auto playback and a little time
between the two effects.
The time between the two animations is
shown by the space between the green and
pink box. It can be any amount of time you
want. Also the effect time is shown by the
length of the green and pink boxes. When
you have your cursor in the Animation Pane
and move it over these timelines, you can
see the cursor change to 2 arrows, you can
also see it change to 2 arrows outside of two
lines. One moves the effect in time, one
adjusts the amount of time for the effect. The
only way to get it is to try it – experiment.
Time
When you put your cursor on the
timeline effect, you can see the
little black triangle that gives you
access to the options for this
effect. You can also make
adjustments here.
Explore your Animation Pane,
make changes, try to be in control,
understand how it works.
You can have as many animated objects on a slide as you want. They
will all be listed in the Animation Pane. If you want two different objects
to animate at the same time, choose With Previous. If you want objects
to animate automatically in sequence, chose After Previous.
The real POWER in PowerPoint animation
is in the Animation Pane.
See if you can make the four balls all move up at the same time.
Hint: you may need to expand your view of the Custom
Animation Pane. Move the cursor to the left edge of the window
until it becomes a double ended arrow. Then drag the window to
enlarge it.
You can also drag the listed effects in the Animation Pane to
change their order.
The next few slides are students PowerPoint animations. The
techniques are creative and innovative. Run this slideshow as a show
now to see the animations. Then you can come back to this view and
reverse engineer a slide to see how it was done.
When you come back to this view, go to the eel swimming through kelp
slide. See if you can make the eel swim between the kelp by moving the
middle kelp behind the eel. This will increase visual depth in the slide.
The animation slides also have some sound effects so you might want to
turn down your speakers to start.
When you are ready, click the slideshow button down in the right bottom
of the PPT window.
Then click anywhere in this slide to go to the animations.
Enjoy.
Over the wall
other students
Distant
Fearless
Bashful
Shadowed
Insightful
Passionate
Bouncy
Procrastinate
Click to Start
This slide doesn’t have any animation, but because
the layout is identical to the next slide, the transition
isn’t noticeable. Click to see the short animation
sequence, then Exit the slideshow by hitting the
ESC key. Examine the difference between slides 2
and 3 in the Custom Animation Palette. Then go to
slide 8.