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.

Custom Animation effects include: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Paths.

Procedures:

1. Switch to Normal View.
2. Go to the slide containing the object you want to animate.
3. Click on the Animations tab, and then in the Animations group, click the Custom Animation button. The Custom Animation task pane opens on the right side of the window.
4. At the top of the displayed Custom Animation task pane, click the Add Effect button, and then do one or 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, 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.

5. 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.
6. To preview how triggered animations work, click the Slide Show button instead.
7. The effects appear in the Custom Animation list, top to bottom, in the order you apply them. If you want to change the position or the order of animations on a slide select the text item or object in the list and then drag it to a new location in the list or click on the Re-Order arrow.

Setting Effect and Timing Options:

2. In the Start list, do one of the following:

-If you want to start the animation by clicking the mouse, click the 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 automatically, click the Start After Previous.

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. 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.

When you click on the Effect Options ..., the Compress dialog box opens. You can choose between the Effect tab, the Timing tab or the Text Animation tab. If you want to dim the bulleted text, click on the Effect tab, in the After Animation: drop-down list, click on the color.