Custom animation enables you to control the timing, speed, sound and other aspects of how and when a slide's elements appear on the screen. Custom animation goes beyond animation schemes, allowing greater flexibility and variety.
To animate an object means to apply visual and sound effects that control how an object behaves during a slide show. You can apply several animation effects to a single object.
All animation effects are available from the Custom Animation task pane. There you can choose entrance, emphasis, and exit effects and vary the direction, timing, speed, and other options.
A motion path can be used to control how an object moves across the screen. PowerPoint provides a large variety of predefined paths that you can resize, rotate, and reposition to suit your needs.
To remove an animation from a slide, select its list item in the custom animation list and click Remove or press [Delete].
Sound effects can be added to individual animations. The sound effect plays when the animation occurs. Be careful with sounds, making sure that they are appropriate and play at the proper volume.
When multiple animations are used on a slide, the order of their appearance is determined by the order they are listed on the Custom Animation task pane. You change the order in the list by selecting and then dragging a list item up or down to a new list position.
As part of the timing options, you can choose to have an animation appear when you click your mouse, appear when a previous animation appears, or be delayed a number of seconds that you specify.
An animated object can be copied to the same slide, another slide, or another presentation. All the animation settings are copied along with the object.
Animations can be applied to master slide items in the same manner as to individual slides. Animations on master slides play before animations on individual slides.
Override master slide animations on an individual slide by copying them to the slide. Once copied, the animations behave as if they were originally placed on the slide instead of on the slide master. You can delete, rearrange, or modify the copied animations.
Besides attaching sound effects to individual animations within a presentation, you can also add sound objects that stand on their own within a presentation. Sound objects can be set to play for the duration of a single slide, for an entire presentation, or until you click your mouse. Music can be played from an audio CD, too.
Movies-animated clip art or videos-can be inserted on a slide. Once on a slide, they can be animated in the same way as any other object.
Use the Rehearse Timings feature to set the timing of individual slides and animations on the slides for a self-running slide show.
Use the Slide Transition task pane to set timings manually.
Using the Set Up Show dialog box, slide shows can be set to run continuously with no manual intervention, to be run only on mouse clicks, or to be modified in many other ways.
Another way to make a presentation adaptable to varying audiences is to create custom shows. Custom shows are subsets of a complete show, displaying only preselected slides.
Creating action buttons or hyperlinks to custom shows makes it easy to manage a slide show during a presentation.
Another way to manage a slide show is to create a summary or agenda slide listing the titles of each slide, each with hyperlinks to the actual slide.
