PowerPoint 2002- Animations- Custom Animation Paths

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Custom Animation Paths
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Custom Animation Paths

Custom Animations offer an easy way to do this, letting you emphasize a block of text or a graphic with the way it appears, disappears, or moves around the screen. .

Action	Instructions	Details
Create a custom animation	Select the object or text you want to animate. Choose Slide Show \| Custom Animation to produce a task pane on the right side of the screen.. Click the Add Effect button You'll see icons representing four choices: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Paths. Pointing to any of the first three choices displays a short list of commonly used animation schemes, followed by a link to More Effects. Whenever you add an effect, PowerPoint previews it on the slide in the main window, helping you quickly try many animations.
Animation Types	Entrance	Does what its name implies, assigning a dramatic entry style to the selected item. In the default setting for PowerPoint slides, everything on the slide pops onto the screen at once. It's a clean appearance, but not very dramatic, and displaying too many items at once is a good way to distract an audience from what you're saying.
	Emphasis	Draws the viewer's eye to something already on the screen. It works great if you do something such as list five goals for the coming year on the screen and ask the audience which one is most important. When you're ready to give the answer, a mouse-click can cause the phrase "Customer Loyalty" to spin, grow in size, or do whatever else you think works for your presentation style.
	Exit	Sends items off the screen with flair. You'll probably find fewer uses for this than entrances, but exit animations are good ways, for example, to eliminate possible scenarios you've placed up on the screen. When everything but an item such as "Boost Profits By 10%" drops off the screen, it's hard for anyone to miss the message.
	Motion Paths	Lets you send items on a ride around the slide, following whatever course you lay out. PowerPoint offers the basic trips of straight lines across, up, down, and diagonal. But clicking More Motion Paths lets you choose specific patterns such as circles, squares, or even footballs and crescent moons. Just don't expect to send a message with the shape the animated item traces. It's pretty tough to tell the difference between an 8-Point Star and a 5-Point Star. For the ultimate in self-expression, choose Motion Paths and Draw Custom Path. You can drag the mouse around the screen however you'd like, and your animated object will follow the leader once you animate it.
Keep track of animations	Custom Animations task pane	All the animations assigned to a slide appear in a list below the Add Effect button and other controls in the Custom Animation task pane. They appear in the order you added them. >Note that an effect applied to a bulleted list will show up as a single animation on the list.. To treat each item on the bullet list separately (maybe you want one to spin for emphasis and another to flash, or you just want them to spin in opposite directions), click the down arrows beside the animation title and click the specific item you want to modify.
	Main window	Each animated item has a number beside it These numbers reflect the order in which you added the animations and will not appear in Slide Show view or on printouts of the slides..
Modify animations		Click an animation on the list them on the list. The Add Effect button at the top of the pane switches to Change. Below these buttons, you'll see words such as "Modify: Spin" telling you which effect is ready for tweaking. The available options vary slightly by the effect you're working with, but they generally let you adjust the effect's speed and whether it starts at a click or at a set point relative to the animation before it. Other choices depend on the effect and include things like whether items spin once or twice, how large they grow for emphasis, and what color PowerPoint brushes onto them. For even more detailed adjustments, click the arrow next to the effect's name on the list and choose Effect Options.