ANIMATING TEXT AND OBJECT

Microsoft PowerPoint provides various tools and features to enhance the appearance of a presentation.
Thee special effects assists you in making your presentation attractive, effective, engaging and
professional. The use of special effects creates a better impact on the audience.

APPLYING ANIMATED EFFETCS

The ability to move objects like text, graphics, charts, logos, etc. in any direction of the slide is called
animation. Animation is quite beneficial when you wish to focus on I important points. It also controls
the order of the flow of information and helps in increasing the interest of the audience. You can
animate the text, graphics, pictures, shapes, tables, SmartArt graphics and other objects in presentation
by playing sound effects, visual effects including movements. Follow the given steps to make specific
changes to the text and the object.

 Open any presentation. Select the objects you want to animate

 Select the animation tab and click on the animation pane button in the Advanced animation
group
 Click o the add animation button present in the advanced animation group. A drop-down menu
appears with four different kinds of animation effects, which are as follows.
1. Entrance: A the name suggests, these effects decide the manner n which an object enters a slide
during the slide show. These effects make an object fade gradually into focus, fly onto their slide
from the edge, bounce into view and so on.
2. Exit: These effects control the way the object exits during the slide show. Some of these are:
Disappear, fade, fly in, fly out etc.
3. Emphasis: These effects can be seen when the object is on the slide during te slide show. Hese
effects make an object shirk or grow, change color, or spin on its center
4. Motion path: You can use these effects to make an object move up or down, left or right, or in
star or circular pattern etc. These effects enable object to move from one position to another on
a slide and on the specified path during the slide show.

You can apply any one animation effect to an object by using the options in animation group r combine
multiple animation effect p[patterns together. To view more animation effect of each type, select the
desire option available at the bottom of an Add animation drop-down menu.

 Pace the moue pointer on any animation effect to preview its result on the slide
 Choose the desired animation, effect from he displayed menu. After applying an animation
effect to an object oar text, you will notice that a numbered tag appears near the object on the
slide pane.
 To specify or set the timing of the effects, use duration field availed in the timing group.
 It helps to change control the speed of the animation effects. Likewise, you can set the delay
time before animation begins using the delay box
 Click on the play animating pane to preview the effects applied on the slide.
  You can make the use of re-order buttons to change time order in which he of the animation
effect appear.

ADDING TRANSITION EFFECT

Transition effect appear when one slide changes to other during the slide show view. You can apply
transition effect to a single slide as well as to all slide. Follow these steps to add transition effects.

 Select the slide on which you want to add transition. Click on the transition tab
 Transition to this slide group appears on the ribbon
 Click on more drop-down arrow to display all the transition effect Click on any transition effect
from the choice. Click on preview button preset on the extreme left, on the ribbon. Observe the
effect
 Specify the transition timing effect by entering the number of seconds or minutes in the
duration box in the timing group. Select on mouse click checkbox if you want to advance the
slide by clicking on the mouse
 Click on the after checkbox if you want the slide to automatically change to the next one. You
can also specify the slide advance timing in the spin box.
 Click on the apply to all button to apply the selected effects on all the slides. Otherwise, those
effects will be applying on the current slide only.
 Open the slide show tab and click on the from beginning button. The slices will be displayed
from the beginning along with all the applied transition effects

INSERTING SOUND CLIPS

Music or defect can be add completely new dimension to any presentation. You can add sound in the
form of music or special effects to give importance to certain points. Sound files can be added from the
fess trod in your computer. You an even record your own sound or can also add music from a CD.

ADDING SOUND FROM A FILE

 Select the slide where your wat to add sound

 Select the insert tab and click on the audio from file arrow in the media fil. Choose the Audio
from file option from the menu.
 The insert Audio dialog box appears
 Locate the audio folder on your computer and select the required file. Click on the Insert button
 You will notice a speaker icon on the slide. Two additional tabs, aid as format and playback
appears under the audio tools tab on the ribbon
 On the playback tab, in the Audio option group, select either Automatically or On click option
from the drop-down list of the start field.
 The automatically option will start the sound automatically as soon as the slide appears in Slide
show. Whereas, on chick option will play the sound only when you click.
 To play sound , click on the speaker icon. The play/pause tab right below the speaker icon.
INSERTING YOUR OWN SOUND

To add your own sound on the slide, first you must record it. While recording your sound, it is essential
to connect a microphone to your computer. Follow these steps

 Select the slide where you want to insert the recorded sound
 Click on the audio drop-down list arrow in the media group I the insert tab
 Choose the Record option from the drop-down list
 The record sound dialog box appears
 Click on the record button to start the recording and click on the stop button when you are finish
recording. Now you can use the play button to listen to the recorded sound. Click on OK if you
want to use it.
 The audio file will get inserted in the slide. once the audio is inserted the audio clip icon appears
on the slide.
 The format and playback tabs appear when you click n the audio clip on the icon on the slide.

INSERTING VIDEO CLIPS

Ideo clip add liveness to our presentation. You can add video clips from the Microsoft clip gallery, which
contains a wide range of art, sound, and video clip. Video clip can also be addedfrom any CD-ROM.

 Select the inserg tab. Click on the video drop-down list in the media group and select the video
from File option.
 The insert Video dialog box appears on the resin. Select the required clip. Click on th insert
option.
 Similarly, you can add the Clip Art Video to your slides.
 The format and playback tabs appear whenever you click on the inserted video. You can format
the inserted video by clicking on the format tab and selecting various formatting options from i
 Click on the insere video clip and select the play button below the video clip. The video will start
playing . The timeline next to the plasy option will begin the advance. Click anywhere on the
timeline to jump to any part of the video.

YUSING ACTION BUTTONS

In PowerPoint we have the facility to link o a web page., email address, file, slide in the same
presentation and a slide in a different presentation. This can be done using hyperlinks and action
buttons. Action button are built in buttons shapes that you can add in a presentation and set to link to
another slide, platy a sound, or perform some other action. You can alo assignations to clipart, pictures,
or to the text in SmartArt graphics. When one clicks or hovers the mouse pointer on the button, the
selected action will occur.

 Open an existing presentation. Select the Insert tab and click on the shapes drop-down In te
illustration group. Select the desired Action buttons from the bottom of the ls.
 For example, click the action button: End option. The mouse pointer will change to plus sign.
  Click ad drag the mouse diagonally. As soon as the mouse button is released the Action settings
dialog box appears.
 Either select the mouse click or the mouse over tab. Selecting the mouse click tab means the
action button will perform its action only when clicked. Selecting the mouse over tab will make
the action button perform action when you mouse over it.
 In the action-on-click section, select he hyperlink to then click the drop-down menu or select any
option from the menu. For example, Previous side, first sled, or Last slide etc. To link to a file
crated in another program in the hyperlink to list, click Other file.
 Select the play sound checkbox f you want to play a sound when the action button is clicked.
Select the sound either from the drop-down list or select Other Sound to use a sound file on
your computer. Click OK.
 Now press F5 to view the slide show. Click on the action button in the slide show and observe
the cation.

IMPORTING DATA FROM WORD

PowerPoint has the facility to import data from word excel, etc., and use it in your presentation.
Importing data saves your time ad efforts. Follow the steps.

 Click on start>All programs>Microsoft office>Microsoft Word2010. Click on the Outline button in

the Document Views group on the View tab.
 Type the ext. as shown in the figure and click on close outline view button to return to print
layout view.
 Select the types of software” and apply heading 2 from the styles group on the home tab.
 Select Microsoft word and select heading 2.
 Select Microsoft excel and apply heading 3
 Similarly select coral draw and apply heading 3. Apply heading 1 to coral photo-paint and
heading2 to adobe photoshop and flash.
 Click on the save button on the quick access toolbar. The save as dialog box appears. Type the
types of software in the file name text box and click on the save button. Now exit from the
Microsoft word.
 Start the Microsoft PowerPoint and open any exist presentation. Click on the view tab and select
the Slide shorter button.
 Now click on the new slide drop-down menu on the home tab. Elect the Slides from the outline
option.
 The insert outline dialog box appears. Browse the location of the word file-types of software.
 Select the file and click on insert
 Observe that two new slides will get inserted and displayed the text a style, which you have
applied.