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  Sunday, July 06, 2008 – Permalink –

Fade In/Fade Out

How to create the effect



"It is relatively simple and can be done quickly. The only part that slows you down is setting the colors. The Fade in technique is explained below. You can apply the same and reverse the color scheme to attain the Fade out effect."

Create multiple copies of an object. You can Copy the object and then use Ctrl+V to Paste it multiple times.

Change the color or shade each time the object is pasted, or using the Tab key, go through the objects and format each with a different degree of color.

Next select all the objects. Drag the mouse around the collection of objects.

With the objects selected, use the Align or Distribute option on the Drawing toolbar to Align Middle . You may also have to use Align Center .

The objects will be perfectly aligned, one on top of the other.

With the objects still selected set the animation to Appear 0 seconds After Previous event. You may have to change the timing to 0.1 seconds.

MVPS.org:

Fade In/Fade Out effect

Download a sample here



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  Monday, April 14, 2008 – Permalink –

Click to Trigger

Make it so



A trigger is an object on your PowerPoint slide - a picture, a shape, a button, or even a paragraph or text box. When you click on it an action is initiated. The action might be a sound, a movie, an animation, or text becoming visible on the slide.

Microsoft Office Online has a tutorial:
Use triggers to create an interactive slide show in PowerPoint

"Here's a Power User column for teachers. Want to involve your students more in a presentation? Set up "triggers" for them to click as they go through the show. Triggers (related to animations) let you add surprise to your slides while inviting your viewer to take part and have fun."


Indezine.com:
Trigger Animations


All 'Bout Computers:
Trigger Happy Animations in PowerPoint



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  Tuesday, March 04, 2008 – Permalink –

Move that Thing

Noise and motion


Microsoft has another of its easy to understand tutorials that deals with making objects move on the screen and also make sounds.


  • Animate text or objects

  • Add sound effects to an animation or hyperlink

  • Use sample animations in your presentation

There is also a link to a tutorial about adding sound effects to a presentation.

Animation



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  Friday, November 30, 2007 – Permalink –

YouTube in PowerPoint

Imbedded videos


Shyam Pillai has provided a free wizard to imbed YouTube clips into a PowerPoint Presentation

"Use this to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint slide. All you need to do is to provide the YouTube video URL that appears in the browser address bar, the rest is taken care of by the YTV Wizard.

Note: YouTube videos are streamed so a live internet connection is required to playback the video during the slideshow. Use the free FlashBack add-in to play/rewind the YouTube video automatically."

YouTube Video Wizard



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  Saturday, September 29, 2007 – Permalink –

Move the Line

Animate charts


PowerPoint has the ability to present elements of a graph one at a time for dramatic effect.


Here's one take from PPTWorkBench.com:
Complex Animations


This tutorial is an example of making PowerPoint do things that can't normally be done. In this case, we will tweak some chart animations that don't exist under normal circumstances.
  1. Create a chart with data,
  2. Ungroup the chart into individual pieces,
  3. Insert pictures that relate to the data,
  4. Do some grouping + animation.

Also:
Microsoft:
Animate Chart Elements in Microsoft PowerPoint

Internet4classrooms.com:
Animating a Chart - Using Ungrouping

Ungroup in 2007



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  Thursday, August 02, 2007 – Permalink –

Leaf Animation

Animation tip


This tutorial will walk you through the steps you can use to display a leaf as it floats and swirls across the screen.

There is also a file that you can download to see how its done.

PowerPoint Heaven:

Leaf Motion



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  Wednesday, July 11, 2007 – Permalink –

Great Collection

Examples and ideas


The experts show you how they have developed some pretty spectacular animations and designs using PowerPoint out of the box.


"PowerPoint Heaven is a website providing PowerPoint showcase, artworks, PowerPoint games, animation templates, PowerPoint animations and tutorials on animating Microsoft PowerPoint."


PPTHeaven.mvps.org



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  Saturday, July 07, 2007 – Permalink –

Countdown Slide

3-2-1




It can be useful to let your audience know when the show is going to begin. Here's a description about how to do it:

Create Countdown Slide Without VBA
(There is also a sample PowerPoint file with all the hard work done for you!)


The MVPS.org site also has a way to do it with VBA:
Simulate a countdown timer using Sleep API

Indezine.com has a tutorial:
Countdown Timer


Tushar-Mehta.com offers a free download:
PowerPoint Timer add-in
The add-in provides a variety of capabilities missing from PowerPoint itself. During a slideshow, it can:


  • Show the current time
  • Show the elapsed time of the presentation
  • Count down the time remaining for the presentation.
  • Optionally, it includes the ability to terminate the presentation at the end of a separately configurable grace period!


Also a tutorial on auto scheduling a PowerPoint show


Countdown with sound



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  Wednesday, April 11, 2007 – Permalink –

Animation Samples

A little taste


The samples on this site make use of advanced animations that are introduced in PowerPoint 2002/XP and above. They will not run correctly when viewing with PowerPoint 2000 or earlier versions. You are free to use it for your presentation as long as proper credit is given.

Note: The animations found in these presentations or showcases are done entirely using PowerPoint. NO animated gifs, video or flash are used.


Shawn Toh is awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for PowerPoint (MVP PowerPoint) and has been certified as Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint, Word, Excel).

PPTHeaven.MVPS.org



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  Saturday, January 20, 2007 – Permalink –

Create Animation Schemes

Roll your own



When you click on Slide Show>Animation Schemes, the task pane will display pre-set animations.

You can create your own Animation Schemes.

Shyam Pillai from PowerPoint MVPS.org details the steps to take and a downloadable template.

Animation Schemes in PowerPoint

"The best part is that you can add/modify and distribute animation schemes of your own.
All the schemes are present in a read-only file quikanim.ppt located in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\1033

(the path may vary depending on the drive and installation folder).
This file is essentially a normal PowerPoint file. You can open the file in PowerPoint directly. However it is best to remove the read-only flag before opening it."




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