Microsoft Office 2010 In Depth

20. Enhancing Slides with Animation, Transitions, and Multimedia

As Microsoft PowerPoint has become more sophisticated over the years in terms of the enhancements that you can apply to your presentation slides, people have come to expect flashier and more graphically rich presentations. Whether you regularly give PowerPoint presentations as part of your profession or just use PowerPoint for your travel club or to show family pictures at a get-together, your audience expects a visually compelling slide show. You just can’t click through a static series of slides without any special effects or multimedia.

In this chapter, we look at animation effects and how you can apply them to slide objects and how to customize these animations. We will also ...