Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Creating Custom Animations

The Custom Animation task pane offers more advanced animation options, such as the capability to set order and timings or to animate certain parts of a slide. You also use this task pane to set animation effects for charts, diagrams, organization charts, and media clips. If animation schemes don't provide the flexibility you need, try custom animation.

Note that if you've already applied an animation scheme to a slide, these animation events will appear in the Custom Animation list on the Custom Animation task pane. For example, the Grow and Exit animation scheme appears as five separate animation events on this task pane. You can either delete these animations and start over with custom animation by clicking the Remove ...