Slide animations are often used to control the
way bullets are introduced during a slide show. For example, you can have bullets fly in
from the left, one at a time. You could have them follow each other automatically in
sequence, but a more common use of slide animation is to have each bullet appear after a
mouse click (or key press).
Controlling the way bullets (text objects) appear on a slide is one way to use slide animations. You can also use slide animations to control how other objects (sounds, videos, charts) appear on a slide. In this lesson we only consider the use of slide animations on text objects.
The two best views for adding slide animations are slide sorter view and slide view. Slide sorter view has a toolbar pull-down menu you can use to quickly add a slide animation to the text object on the selected slide.
The following animation demonstrates how to add a slide animation in slide sorter view,
Some things to notice in the above animation,
In slide view the more powerful Slide Show/Custom Animation menu option is available. This menu option brings up a dialog box that allows precise control over how animations are applied to the objects on the slide:
The following animation show an example of this Custom Animation menu option:
Some things to notice in the above animation,
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