Just as you use transition effects to control how a slide fades in, you use animations to con-
trol how the individual elements of a slide make their appearance. By showing one bullet
point at a time, for example, you can make sure your audience concentrates on what you’re
saying now rather than reading the rest of the bullets on your slide and mentally calculating
how much longer you’re going to speak.
The most rudimentary form of slide animation displays each bullet point on a slide one at a
time: You click the mouse (or tap the spacebar) and the slide’s title appears. ...
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