1. 10 Animation Techniques that Actually Help Your Audience…
Ellen Finkelstein
PowerPoint MVP
Copyright Ellen Finkelstein, Inc.

2. … Understand and Remember Concepts
Ellen Finkelstein
PowerPoint MVP

3. Why were you so interested in animation?

4. I hate to burst your bubble…

5. Don’t do this to your trainees!
Make them wait for text to appear
Make them strain to read the text as it’s moving
Distract them when they should be paying attention to the content
Annoy them when they’re trying to learn

6. To create anticipation
When to use animation
To show a process
To create anticipation
To convey excitement
To organize content

7. To create anticipation
When to use animation
To show a process
To create anticipation
To convey excitement
To organize content

8. POLL: Which version of PowerPoint do you have?
File>Account
Office 365 (subscription)
PowerPoint 2016 (one-time purchase)
PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2010 or earlier
Any Mac version

10. Zoom to link to other slides1
Zoom to link to other slides
This is only available in Office 365
It automates creating links to other slides
Think of it like a menu slide
…or Microsoft trying to copy Prezi

11. Two ways to create a “Zoom” slide
Choose Insert tab, Zoom (in the Links section), Summary Zoom (or Section or Slide)
Drag slides from the left-hand pane to your Zoom (menu) slide

12. Fade in to show a transition or change2
Fade in to show a transition or change

13. Turn your training from boring to brilliant

14. How to fade in an image on top of another image to show a transition
Insert the 2 images
Place the “after” image on top of the “before image”
Select the “after” image
Go to Animations tab, Add Animation and choose Fade in the Entrance section
Adjust settings as desired

15. Turn your training from boring to brilliant

16. Zoom into text or an image3
Zoom into text or an image

17. How to zoom into text or an image
Insert the full text or image
Zoom into the text or image in Word, Google maps, or an image editing program and take a screenshot
Insert the detail
Add the Zoom entrance effect
Optional: add lines to show where the detail came from and add a Wipe animation

18. Zoom into text or an image

19. 4
1st quarter sales

20. Focus attention on a chart or other object
Oval
Arrow
Deselect a chart
Insert an oval
Format it with no fill and a thicker outline
Add the Wheel entrance animation
Deselect a chart
Insert an arrow
Add a Wipe animation
Set the direction toward the point

21. 1st quarter sales

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23. To rotate an object from an end
Duplicate the object
Flip it so you have a mirror image
Make the mirror 100% transparent
Group the 2 objects
Add a Spin emphasis animation

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25. Reach out to other departments6
Reach out to other departments

26. Reach out to other departments

27. To morph objects (Office 365 only)
Create the before slide
Duplicate the slide and change the object
On the Transitions tab, apply the Morph transition to the second slide

28. Reach out to other departments

29. Reach out to other departments

30. Reach out to other departments7
Reach out to other departments

31. To add a motion path Select the object
Go to Animations Tab, Add Animations and choose one of the motion paths or Custom Path
Adjust the beginning and end points

32. Reach out to other departments

33. All growth comes in stages8
All growth comes in stages

34. Add “stop motion” animation
Put the objects on top of each other
Set the timing so one object fades out while the next object fades in
Except the last object should only have a Fade entrance animation
Add a Fade entrance and Fade exit to the rest of the objects
Add a Fade exit animation to the 1st object
Insert the objects and separate them

35. All growth comes in stages

36. Progress comes in stages8
Progress comes in stages

37. Add cascading animation
Set the timing to With Previous plus a Delay (for Appear) or After Previous (for Fade)
Apply an Appear or Fade animation to all
Insert the objects

38. Progress comes in stages

39. Find problems and fix them9
Find problems and fix them

40. Add triggers Insert the objects Apply any animation
Choose the object to click
Choose Triggers and then choose “Start effect on click of”
In the Animation pane, choose Timing from the drop-down list
Apply any animation
Insert the objects

41. Find problems and fix them

42. Aim for the highest goal!10
Aim for the highest goal!

43. Show direction, purpose, or goal with the Fly In animation
Insert an object
Place it in its final location
Add a Fly In animation
Set the direction

44. Aim for the highest goal!

45. There’s a lot more to creating effective training presentations
There’s a lot more to creating effective training presentations! Ask me about it… I do corporate and 1-on-1 training
Ellen Finkelstein
PowerPoint MVP

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