PowerPoint Advanced: Animate Your Presentations

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Class Description

Transform static slideshows into engaging, energetic presentations by learning to tastefully apply motion to bullet text, images, shapes, SmartArt graphics and charts. Your presentations will hold your audience's attention by appearing one point or image at a time as you talk about them, without creating duplicate slides. In this three-hour session for Windows and Mac users, you will learn how to apply the four types of motion, how to control effect options like speed and direction, when to use each of the three start triggers, how to completely control the order in which elements appear and disappear, and how to apply slide transitions.

Prerequisites

This class is designed for people who have attended our PowerPoint Intermediate class or who are comfortable performing the skills taught in that class.

Upcoming Dates

Friday, October 2, 2026
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time

Thursday, November 12, 2026
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time

Tuesday, December 22, 2026
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time

Class Outline

Animating Bullet Text
- on the slide or on the master; which is best?
- adding entrance effects
- selecting effect options
- switching effects
- causing bullet points to appear one at a time

Animating Graphics and Charts
- setting the start event for an object
- mixing multiple start events within an object
- applying entrance and exit effects to an object
- controlling the order of animated objects
- adding sound

Creating Motion Path Animation
- using built-in paths
- creating custom paths

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