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Custom Entrance Animations
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Custom Animation–Text Placeholder
• Custom animations allow you to control how
text comes into your slide
• With oral presentations, it is helpful to bring
your bullets in as you talk about them
– Less distracting for the audience
– Not tempted to read ahead
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Customizing Text Animation
• All of the animation effects can be customized
in many ways
• When direction is applicable, it can be
changed to come in from 8 different directions
– Avoid anything from the left when animating text
– Makes most audience members eyes ‘twitch’
• Speed may vary from computer to computer
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Effect Options
• Direction: options for a Smooth Start and End
• Sound: adds a sound to the animation effect
(don’t be tempted…)
• After animation: select a color to have bullets
dim on next animation
– Dimming previous bullets can help to keep the
audience focused
• Animate text: All at once, By Word, or By
Letter
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Timing Options
• Delay: by default 0 seconds – adjust to have more
time between animations on timed slides or
when Automatically after previous is set
• Repeat: by default (none) – best setting for text
• Rewind when done playing check box – by default
unchecked (Rewind on a text animation makes it
disappear.)
• Triggers button (more about this one later!)
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Text Animation Options
• Group text allows you to determine animation
grouping options from:
– All at once, to
– By any level paragraph
• Automatically after allows you to set a
number of seconds between automatic
animations
• In reverse order – brings your last bullet in
first
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Entrance Animation Effects
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Crawl In
Fly In
Rise Up
Zoom
Boomerang
Bounce
Float
Light Speed
Spiral In
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Appear
Dissolve In
Flash Once
Fade
Expand
Compress
Glide
Thread
Wheel
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Sample
Text
End Show
Animation Triggers
• Complete control of animation effects
• Can make ‘just in case’ text appear only if you
need it
• Can repeat if desired
• Multiple animation effects can use the same
trigger
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Congratulations!
• You have completed the text entrance
animations tutorial.
• Now go back and play a little.
• Try different animation effects with different
custom settings to see how they affect your
text.
• Have fun!
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