UNIT3 DB3

Successful presenting entails focusing on important points , controlling the flow of information , and holding the audience 's interest in the presentation

We can include two types of animation - within a slide and from slide to slide . Animation on a slide , often called builds , determines how and when objects on the slide appear . Animation from slide to slide , called transitions , specifies how a new slide appears after the previous slide disappears . The last version of the PowerPoint includes powerful animation effects and features

Animation can certainly enliven a presentation , but too much

animation will distract the audience from the main message . All professionals make the same point about animation - pick one or two effects and stick to them . This principle applies to both animation on a slide and transitions between slides

Animating objects has an additional purpose - to focus the audience 's attention on what one is saying . To animate a slide , one needs to know what he is going to say while that slide is displayed - and in what . He then uses that to determine the in which the objects appear on the slide . Object animation is sometimes called a build because the objects build up on the screen , one after another . One can control the following aspects of the animation How the object appears In what grouping the object appears . For example , text most often appears paragraph by paragraph but can appear by the word or even by the letter Whether the animation occurs when one clicks the mouse or automatically after a preset number of seconds Whether a sound plays during the animation What happens , if anything , after the animation . For example , one can change the color of a previously displayed object when the next object appears or hide it completely

For a quick solution , PowerPoint offers animation schemes - a complete group of settings that one can quickly assign to a slide or presentation . Animation schemes apply only to slide titles and text placeholders . To animate other objects the custom animation is used Several animation schemes also include slide transitions

When one animates placeholder text , all the text in the placeholder is considered one object . However , it is automatically animated paragraph by paragraph - that is , bullet by bullet , which is usually what is wanted . To animate by word or even letter , the custom animation is used too

For more control over animation , than the animation schemes proposed one need to create own settings . New features of custom animation include attaching more than one animation type to an object , animating an object along a path , and animating an object when another object is clicked The number of the animation options that are included is vast . One can also animate objects such as AutoShapes and text boxes . Because these objects often serve to draw attention anyway , adding animation to them only increases the effect . One can animate WordArt text too

Another type of animation controls how each new slide appears . Because these effects control the transition from...