How to Add Animation to Picture and Text in PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 has change a lot compare to the previous version PowerPoint 2007. More video formats like FLV/MP4 are supported, saving PowerPoint as PDF/Movie is added and lots of other new features. If you want to make your PowerPoint presentation attract your audiences’ eyes, Animation is one of the best tools you should learn to use. Adding animations in PowerPoint 2010 is a bit different for many buttons we are used to have been changed, removed or emerged into one. Now we will take a look at how to add animations in PowerPoint 2010.

Basically animations are added to pictures and texts, and we would talk about each respectively.

Adding Animation to Picture:

Select the picture first and click “Animations” tab on the ribbon. Below in the “Animation” group choose “Animation Styles” and select one animation.

Do you see the “Add Animation” button in the “Advanced Animation” group? Yes, click it and you can add multiple animations to one object. For example, one animation to fly in and another fly out.

Click “Animation Pane” (same to “Customize Animations” in PowerPoint 2007) so you can further adjust the settings of the animations, like trigger, timing and other effect options.

Adding Animation to Text:

Adding animation of text is almost the same as picture. But there are some differences. Choose “Zoom” from the “Animation Styles”.

Text does have some different “Effect Options”. By selecting a sequence, you decide whether the text appears as one object, all at once, or by paragraph.

Different animation has different effect options. If you choose “Fly in” animation, when you click “Effect Options”, you can choose which direction you want the text to fly in.

Preview Your Animations:

Click on the “Preview” button anytime to see what the animation looks like and modify if necessary.