Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 16. Working with Animation

Patrice-Anne Rutledge

In this chapter

• Understanding Animation 284

• Setting Slide Transitions 284

• Applying Animations to Objects 286

• Creating Custom Animations 286

• Using Action Settings 295

• Using Action Buttons 296

• Troubleshooting 298

• Design Corner: Spicing Up Your Presentation 298

Understanding Animation

PowerPoint includes a number of ways to animate your slides. You can animate the transition from one slide to another or animate how objects and text appear on a slide. You can also customize these basic animations in a variety of ways. You can have action buttons or other objects perform a specific action in your presentation, such as opening a web page on the Internet.

Like most of PowerPoint’s capabilities, animation can ...