PowerPoint: Adding Transitions to a Presentation

What are slide transitions? Rather than animating elements within an private slide, a transition in a PowerPoint presentation is simply animation between slides. Transitions add movement (and sometimes sound) between the end of one slide and the start of the next slide. When used well, they signal a change to the audience and smoothly switch to the next slide. Used poorly, transitions are just someone else way to add annoying clutter to a presentation.

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Understanding Transitions

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Transitions offer a way to add range to your presentation. With transitions, you can modify how slides are displayed when they first appear. A transition result occurs when you expand a slide show from one slide to another; it is basically animation between slides.

Use slide show transitions to:
Catch people's attention Change agenda items Make a strong point Ask a question

For best results, choose no more than 2-3 dissimilar effects in one presentation. Also avoid applying a transition between every slide or these effects will just be annoying and distracting to your audience.

Add a Transition

You can apply a transition to prime slides from the Slides tab in the general view or from the Slide Sorter view.

To add transitions to slides in PowerPoint 2010 or PowerPoint 2007:
Select the slides you want to add a transition to. You should not add transitions to the whole presentation. Click the Animations tab and opt the drop-down arrow to display the transitions gallery. Pick a transition in the gallery. Experiment with the dissimilar options. Some transitions may be too busy or dramatic for business presentations.

PowerPoint applies the transition to the slides and displays a preview of the effect.

Once a slide is formatted with a transition or other animation, a faint star displays in the left or lowest of the slide thumbnail to indicate the slide has a transition. Click on this star at any time to see a preview of the slide transition.

Tip: Avoid selecting a transition from the Random kind as the transition may not match the tone or appearance of the slide and you cannot operate which transition might be applied to a specific slide.

Remove a Transition

Even though a transition might seem like a good idea for a slide, you might decree later to take off it once you run your slide show.

To take off a transition:
Select the slide or slides you want to work with. Pick the transitions gallery. Click No Transition under the icon.

PowerPoint removes any existing transition. To take off transitions from all slides in the presentation, click Apply to All.

Transition Options

You also can set up PowerPoint to play sounds when a transition occurs, or to time a transition to occur at assorted speeds.
Speed: You can operate how fast a transition occurs. A faster speed keeps the presentation animated along while a slower speed gives viewers more of a divorce from the former topic. Sound: Adding a sound when a transition occurs can provide emphasis or alert your audience members to an important point. Too much use of sounds, though, can be annoying. Advance Slide: In most presentations, you expand from one slide to the next with a mouse click or with keyboard shortcuts. If you plan to use the presentation while a consulation exhibit or unattended computer, you might have slides expand at a preset time.

Slide transitions are one of the tools in your PowerPoint toolbox to heighten your presentations with extra effects.

PowerPoint: Adding Transitions to a Presentation

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