Add
Builds
What
You'll Learn: One
of the more interesting effects you can apply to
a slide is a "build." In this lesson, you
will be applying a build to a slide that will effect
the way that your bulleted text appears on the screen.
This build is actually one of many animation effects
packaged with PowerPoint. In this example, we'll
be selecting a conservative animation effect that
will display the bullets on a slide one by one, from
the top to bottom. Other, less conservative effects
can be applied as well.
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Go
to Slide Sorter view by clicking on the icon
in the lower left-hand corner. |
The
slide tray with all your slides should be visible. |
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Select
the slide on the slide tray to which you want to
apply an animation effect. |
A
dark blue outline appears around the slide that has
been selected. In the example below, we've selected
slide #2. |
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Click
on Slide Show on the main menu, then
click Animation schemes, as in the left side of
Figure 1.
Alternatively,
you can right-click on the slide
of your choice, then choose Animation
Schemes as in the right side of Figure
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Slide Design dialog appears on the right-hand side
of the screen. In this dialog you can select an
animation effect for the entire slide, as shown
in Figure 2. |
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Figure
1. Two ways of opening the Slide Design
dialog. On the left, you can access it
by clicking on the main menu, Slide
Show | Animation Schemes. Or,
as shown on the right, you can right-click
a slide, then click Animation Schemes.
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Figure
2. The Slide Design dialog,
in which you can select
an animation effect for the entire slide.
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From
the Apply to Selected Slides drop down menu,
select any one of the build options.
Since we
want the bullets to appear one at a time, from
the top down, we've selected the Subtle
Animation | Fade In One By One option
from the list. The animation that has been selected
will be applied to the slide that was selected. |
This
list is rather long; it is grouped by four types
of animation effects: a) No Animation, b) Subtle
Animation, c) Moderate Animation,
and d) Exciting Animation.
You be
the judge of how "exciting" you want
your slide to be. Some of the more exciting effects
can be somewhat outrageous.... |
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To
preview the slide animation effects, click the
the Play button, as shown on the
right, this will play the animation in the slide
thumbnail.
Alternatively,
click the Play Presentation icon
in the lower left-hand corner of the screen;
this will play the slide with animation effects
in the full-screen mode. |
The
animation that has been selected will be applied
to the slide that was selected. There are two ways
to preview the animation effect. On the Slide
Design dialog, click the Play button,
as shown on the right. This will play the animation
in the slide thumbnail. If you want to see the effects
at full-screen mode, click the Play Presentation icon
in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. |
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Figure
1. Two ways to preview the animation effect:
on the Slide Design dialog, click the Play button,
as shown on the right; this will play the animation
in the slide thumbnail. If you want to see
the effects at full-screen mode, click the Play
Presentation icon in the lower left-hand
corner of the screen. |
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