Applying an Animation Scheme

Whereas a transition moves from one slide to another, an animation moves an individual object onto or off of the screen within a slide. PowerPoint comes with many preset animation schemes that are designed for ease of use. You can also create custom animations, as covered later in this chapter.

1. Display the slide to which you want to apply the animation. The slide will appear in Normal view. If you want to apply the animation to several slides, select the slides in Slide Sorter view.

2. Click on Slide Show. The Slide Show menu will appear.

   

3. Click on Animation Schemes. The Slide Design task pane will appear, and the available slide animations will be listed.

4. Click on an animation scheme. The animation will be applied to the selected slides.

   

5. Click on Apply to All Slides if you want every slide in the presentation to use the same animation scheme.