This video covers transition in PowerPoint.
Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next,
either in a subtle or an exciting fashion.
In this video, we're going to cover the types of transitions, the timing,
the fact that they work forwards and backwards.
A little bit about the logic of using transitions, and
then finally dynamic transitions.
And morph transitions, which are actually quite amazing,
will be the subject of another video.
So let's hit Escape on the keyboard, and get out of reading view.
We've just been running this presentation constrained with a window.
And here's our presentation.
Notice that I've got some sections which group my slides into various concepts, and
sections are also the subject of another video.
Let's first have a look at the Transitions tab on the ribbon.
The first thing we notice is the transitions to this slide group,
as well as effect options and some timing options.
I drop the little arrow down known as the More button because it shows more options,
and it shows the group of transitions, subtle, exciting and dynamic and so on.
So I choose a subtle transition of Fade, and
we get a preview of how that will appear.
For this slide, I select Reveal, and a bit of a preview again.
And now let's go into Reading view, and click through those slides, and
see how the transitions work.
And so subtle transitions are a very good way when you've got a particular area for
your presentation and you want to encourage the flow between slides and
not to interrupt the concentration of your audience.
However, when you move from a particular area of the presentation into a whole new
concept or perhaps even another speaker, it's okay to have an exciting transition.
Or perhaps, you're presentation is standalone and
you wanna make your presentation a bit more engaging.
And standalone presentations are the subjects of other videos, as well.
So we select the slide that we wish to add the transition to.
Drop the little More button down again and we have transitions such as Cube.
We get a preview of Flip and Shred.
And these transitions again are just a way of breaking up our presentation into
more defined blocks of information within the story line.
Notice the Effect Options button, the context of which changes
depending on which transition on the slide you've selected.
These options really are a variation of the transition applied.
Such as quite often the direction.
So if we select slide seven, remember that a transition governs the effect
that will occur moving towards the slide that you have the transition placed on.
I will add a switch transition and we go forward to that slide, and
in our slide show mode I might be speaking about a particular slide.
So for example, I bumped the keyboard and I go forward a little bit too quickly.
I could use the backspace key on the keyboard and
the slide transition works in reverse.
It's a very powerful addition to transitions in PowerPoint that makes them
so good.
It doesn't break the continuity.
You talk particularly when you're presenting live and you make a mistake.
Notice also that you can change the duration of the transition so
that we could actually select more than one slide, holding the control key and
select those thumbnails and change the timing of those transition.
Now, I'll bump that up to two seconds and of course that works forward and
in reverse, as well.
But before we move on to a lot further at the logic of adding transition,
let's have a look at the Apply to All button.
When you apply a transition to a slide via Apply to All,
applies that transition, that is the effects and
the timing of the transition to all slides in the presentation.
It's a real time saver, but it's also useful because it's good try and restrain
yourself to using a single style of transition throughout your presentation.
And this will allow you to apply a particular look to the whole presentation.
Let's look at the logic of adding transitions to presentations.
I've got some chevrons on this slide number one, two, three.
And then on the following slide, numbered four, five,and six and so on.
So to get good continuity between these slides,
the logical transition to add is a push transition From Right,
and again, we apply the same transition of Push From Right to the next slide as well.
Now, we preview the transition of those three slides, and
the slides enter in a logical fashion.
And that gives continuity to our presentation.
So I speak about items 1, 2, and 3.
Click which brings you in items 4 to 6, click and that brings you in items 7 to 9.
So always think about the logic of transitions that you apply to your slides
in a presentation.
Dynamic transitions, some people struggle to understand these, but
they're actually very easy.
Just imagine the transition happens to everything
on the slide apart from the background,
provided that the background is the same on different slides.
So a dynamic transition is really a dual transition.
The first part of the transition,
a fade transition, is applied to the slide background.
Now, if the slide background on both slides is identical,
the slides will change but no-one will know, they just won't see it.
It appears to stay static.
For the second part of the transition, a different transition is applied to
the objects on the slide, and when the transition is played the objects will move
but it appears as though the slide itself doesn't.
So on slide 13, I will apply a rotate dynamic transition.
And on slide 14, I will apply a Fly Through dynamic transition.
So let's preview that in readign view from slide 12.
Now of course, slide 12 appears immediately,
because no transition was applied.
However, when I click slide 13, it moves in but
it appears that the background stays there, and the same for slide 14.
And again, this transitions work backwards and forwards.
So please consider using slide transitions,
from subtle transitions to group similar ideas together,
to a more exciting transitions between separate groups of ideas in your story.
On the Transitions tab of the ribbon, is the transitions to this slide group.
Options to advance a slide, on Mouse Click or automatically,
as well as the option to apply that particular transition to all the slides.
And of course, the effect options, and the button to preview,
which allows you to preview the effect without going into slide show mode.
Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions,
there are dynamic transitions whereas the objects on the slide that appear to move.
But don't overuse transitions, it's better to stick to a single style of transition
throughout your whole presentation rather than to overwhelm people.