It is essentially important to know the different functions that powerful applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint have. And now with its online version , with it we can make animations that we can include in our slides.
In the following article, we will teach you a very simple way to use the animation panel and how to adjust animations in Microsoft PowerPoint.
In another tutorial you could learn how to put animations and transitions to slides with PowerPoint . But in this article we are going to teach you how to use the animation panel and how to adjust animations in Microsoft PowerPoint, so let’s get started.
How to use the animation panel and how to adjust animations in Microsoft PowerPoint
It is very easy to make animations and use the animation panel, adjust the animations in Microsoft PowerPoint, we must first have our slides already loaded. Then to activate the animations panel, we are going to go to the main menu and select the Animations tab and then click on the Animations panel option in the advanced animations group.
First of all we will find that the animation panel is empty because we have not added any of the objects of our slides. But as animation effects are added, they are added to the animation panel as a list. In this list we will see the order, in which the animations are found.
Also in each animation we will see a star , this will indicate the type of animation it represents. If this star is green, it means that they are input animations, the yellow ones represent emphasis animations. The red stars are exit animations, etc. if it is a trajectory animation, it will show us a star in blue.
We will also observe that each animation has a name and on the right side it will have a rectangle that indicates the duration with the beginning and the end. We can modify these animations in their options at any time or simply delete them by clicking on the Delete button, but if we want to add animations, we must make a clip in the Add animation option .
When you select any of the animations, we can see that a small triangle-shaped icon is displayed on the right side. When you make a clip on it, a menu will open, which will show us different options, among them. How the animation will start, which can be when making a clip with the mouse or starting with the previous one or after the previous one.
Using and adjusting the animations panel in PowerPoint
We will also find the Effect Controls option, when we click it will show us a window and from there we can apply a color, a sound, intervals, a light effect , the trigger, etc. all these options are fully configurable, according to your needs.
It also offers us an option where we can hide the time scale that is at the bottom or those that are next to the animations. Here we will also find the Remove option, to remove the animation . If I move an effect and put it above or below another effect, we will change the order of the effects, but I will achieve the same using the arrows.
All these animations can be configured in duration time, the trajectory it must have, but everything will depend on the image we want to animate. It is important that we have a clear idea of what we want to do and the effects that we will add to the animation. In this way we will have a coherent animation.
And so in a very simple way we have shown you how the animation panel works and the different configurable options it can perform. As you may have realized, this program has a very intuitive interface and is not difficult to use at all.
And without much complication you have learned in this tutorial how to use the animation panel and how to adjust animations in Microsoft PowerPoint.
