In PowerPoint, OpenOffice Impress and other presentation software, animations are visual effects applied to individual items on the slide such as graphics, titles or bullet points. Animations are different than transitions, which are the movements of the whole slide.
(i) To apply a custom animation effect in Office PowerPoint, do the following:
- Select the text or object that you want to animate.
- On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
- In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, and then do one or more of the following:
- Add Animations. You can animate the objects on your PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint provides four types of animations: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Paths. An Entrance animation determines the manner in which an object appears on a slide; for example, an object can move onto a slide.