Lab 2: Project Lab-Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation

In an ideal world, you'd have great video equipment to create live-action movies for your audiences, but that's not always the case. Often you're stuck with a bunch of static images, and you need to make them as lively and animated as possible within the confines of PowerPoint.

In this lab, you animate a presentation for Spice Meadow Shelties, a small kennel that breeds purebred Shetland Sheepdogs. The graphics and text are already in place. Your job is to apply animations and transitions to make the presentation more interesting and appealing.

Lab 2A: Fading Text and Graphics In and Out

In this lab session, you add some text to a slide. You then animate it and the photos so that the first set fades in and out, and then the other set fades in. Even though the text and pictures seem to overlap in Normal view, they appear at different times in Slide Show view so there is no conflict.

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Time to complete: 15 to 30 minutes

1. Open the file  Lab2A.pptx from the Labs folder (from the CD accompanying the book) and save it as  MyLab2A.pptx.

2. On slide #2, set up the Champion Sires text box to appear by fading in when the slide first appears.

   1. On the Animations tab, click Custom Animation. The Custom Animation task pane appears.

   2. Select the text box on the left (Champion Sires).

   3. Choose Add Effect Entrance More Effects.

      

   4. In the Add Entrance Effect dialog box, choose Fade.

   5. Click OK.

      

   6. In the Custom Animation pane, select the new animation.

   7. Open the Start drop-down list and choose After Previous.

   

3. Set up the picture on the right to appear by fading in simultaneously with the text that you animated in step 2.

   1. Select the picture on the right.

   2. Choose Add Effect Entrance Fade. (Notice that Fade is on the top-level list because you recently used it. It might have already been in step 2 but it was good to learn the other technique.)

      

   3. Click the new animation in the Custom Animation pane.

   4. Open the Start drop-down list and choose With Previous.

      

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, but this time set up exit effects instead of entrance effects.

   1. Create an exit effect for the left text box set to occur After Previous.

   2. Create an exit effect for the right picture set to occur With Previous.

   

5. Create a delay of five seconds between the text box's entrance and its exit.

   1. Select the exit animation for the text box in the Custom Animation pane.

   2. Open its menu and choose Timing.

      

   3. Enter 5 in the Delay box.

   4. Click OK.

   

6. Repeat step 5 for the exit animation for the right picture.

7. Create a Fade entrance effect for the opposite text box (the one on the right) that occurs After Previous.

   Refer to step 2.

8. Create a Fade entrance effect for the opposite picture (the one on the left) that occurs With Previous.

   Refer to step 3.

9. Preview the slide's animation and check your work.

   1. Click the Slide Show View button.

   2. If you did the animation correctly, the Champion Sires text and the right photo will appear first, fading in.

   3. They will pause for five seconds, fade out, and then the opposite text and picture will fade in. They will remain on the screen until you click to move to the next slide.

   

10. Press Esc to exit Slide Show view.

11. Save your work.