Welcome to these tutorials, many of
which were unique concepts when first published!
      
Animate: animation effects with images,
text and multiple objects for a leading edge
[ animation 1 ] [ animation 2 ] [ animation 3 ] [ animate & annotate ] [ animate by position ] [ animate cropped text ] [ animate on the moove ] [ change animation ] [ change animation 2 ] [ complex animations ] [ hidden pivot animation ] [ mask animations ] [ multiple motion paths ] [ spin a word art animation ] [ spin an image animation ] [ twist & morph animation ] [ wide screen PowerPoint on the fly ] [ time lapse animations (new) ] [ overlapping powerpoint animations (new) ] [ artistic powerpoint new orleans (new) ] [ artistic powerpoint atlanta (new) ]
Annotations and animations
Why?
Help yourself animate PowerPoint objects using annotations
in a slideshow.
Before we begin. You would normally do this by grouping an object to
the end of the rectangle. However, that would lock the object, which
would not suit if you wanted to add another animation to it, such as a
spin Emphasis. Anyway...
Sometimes you need a more precise idea of where objects will move on
your screen. For example, I have a rectangle that spins 90 degrees
(number 1 in the example) with a Spin Emphasis, as well as moves to the
right with a Motion Path (number 2).
I want to place an object at the top of the rectangle
and have it move with the end of the rectangle. That is easy if it is a simple arc, but what if the
object also moves location on the slide? One help is to use annotations.
Put simply, you run your animated slideshow very slow and use
annotations to draw where things will be at certain times.
First, we set our animated slideshow to run very slow.
That will give us time to annotate our animations.
The trick is then, in our slideshow, to get the felt tip
pen. In PowerPoint 2003, this is available from the slideshow menu or by
hitting <Control + p>.
Before I start the animation (set to commence on mouse
click), I draw an point with the felt pen at the start of the
edge.
Then, when I hit the <Enter> key to start the animation
process, I draw a new point as time goes by.
When you exit the slideshow, you will be prompted
(unless you bypassed this in the options settings) to keep annotations.
Do this.
I then get an idea of where the edge moves. Once you get
the hang of this, you can use it to help you design some powerful stuff
with a bit more ease.
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