2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Playing with Animations

Animation is a great tool to help catch audience attention and add interest to your presentation. You can add custom animation to almost any item on a slide including placeholders, paragraphs, single bullets, and list items. You can animate your presentations in so many ways that we can’t possibly cover them all in this book. Instead, we’ll hit the highlights and then let you play on your own. As with other effects, keep animation to a minimum so your audience remains interested instead of being overwhelmed.

The key item to master when working with animation is the Custom Animation task pane, shown in Figure 18-4. This is where you control how and when you want an item to appear in your presentation—with this pane, you can ...