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Animating Your Slides
In This Chapter
Creating slide transitions
Animating text
Working with custom animations
Setting animation timings
Creating jiggle text
If you plan to run your presentation on your computerâs screen or on a computer projector, you can use (or abuse) a bagful of exciting onscreen PowerPoint animations. The audience members probably wonât be fooled into thinking that you hired Disney to create your slides, but theyâll be impressed all the same. Animations are just one more example of how PowerPoint can make even the dullest content look spectacular.
This chapter begins with slide transitions, which are not technically animations because they donât involve movement of individual items on a slide. However, slide transitions are usually used in concert with animations to create presentations that are as much fun to watch as they are informative.
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