Jane's Quick Tips
Tip 22
Applying Custom Animation

Apply Custom Animation

In addition to applying animation effects to an object, you can build a slide with individual lines of text and special effects. The Custom Animation feature provides a range of animation effects, text introduction, and appearance options.

Procedures:

1. Switch to Normal View.
2. Go to the slide containing the object you want to animate.
3. Pull down the Slide Show menu, and select Custom Animation from the menu. The Custom Animation task pane opens on the right side of the window.
4. In the Custom Animation task pane, click the Add Effect button, and do one of more of the following:

If you want to make the text or object enter the slide show presentation with an effect, point to the Entrance button and then click an effect.

If you want to add an effect to text or an object that is on the slide, point to the Emphasis button and then click an effect.

If you want to add an effect to text or an object that makes it leave the slide at some point, point to the Exit button and then click an effect.

If you want to apply or draw a motion path to an effect, point to the Motion Path button and click a preset path or click More Motion Paths to choose from more options.

6. If you preview animations for a slide using the Play button on the Custom Animation task pane, you do not need to click to trigger any animation sequences.
7. To preview how triggered animations work, click the Slide Show button instead.

Note:

The effects appear in the Custom Animation list, top to bottom, in the order you apply them. The animated items are noted on the slide by a non-printing numbered tag that correlates to the effects in the list. This tag does not show up in the slide show view.

Change Start Times of Animations:

1. If you want to create a delay between the end of one animation and the start of the next item in the list, click an option in the Delay list.
2. In the Start list, do one of the following:

If you want to start the animation by clicking the slide, click Start On Click.

If you want to start the animation at the same time as the previous animation in the list finishes, click Start With Previous.

If you want to start the animation right after the previous animation in the list finishes, click Start After Previous.

If this is the first animation on the slide, it will be marked as "0" and will start as soon as the slide appears in the slide show.

Note:

You can change the order of animations on a slide by selecting the text item or object in the Custom Animation list and then dragging it to a new location in the list.