Applying animations and transitions

In this section, we will recap adding an animation to multiple objects on a slide and use Animation Pane to configure, set triggers, modify transitions, and look at the advanced morphing technique. Animation types have not been updated within PowerPoint 2021.

As we already know, animations can be applied to pictures, charts, tables, SmartArt graphics, shapes, clip art, and many other objects in PowerPoint. We must always remember that animations can be extremely distracting if applied to many objects of the same slide. No more than 20% of your slide content should be animated.

Using Animation Pane

Animation Pane provides access to animation start options, timing, and effect options, as well as the ability to remove animations from objects. These options are explained throughout this chapter using other methods, so we will concentrate on each individually, in those sections.

Setting up advanced animations

You can apply more than one...