This video covers transitions in PowerPoint. Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next in either 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. So let’s hit the ESC key on the keyboard and get out of reading
view, which has been running this presentation constrained within a window. And here is our presentation. Notice that I’ve got some sections
which group my slides into various concepts, and sections are the subject of another video, and so I’ve titled this section about subtle
transitions, and exciting and so on. So let’s 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 a more button because it shows more
options, and it shows the groups of transitions being subtle, exciting and dynamic. 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 those transitions work. And so subtle transitions are very good when you’ve got a particular area of your presentation and
you want to encourage the flow between slides 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 your presentation is stand-alone and you want to make your presentation a bit more engaging, and stand-alone presentations are the
subject of other videos. 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, or flip or shred; and these transitions again are just a way of breaking up a presentation into more
defined blocks of information within the storyline of the presentation. Notice the effect options button, the context of which changes depending
on which transition on the slide you have selected. These options really are a variation of the transition applied such as quite often the
direction. So if we select slide 7, remember that a transition governs the effect that will occur moving towards the slide that you place a
transition on. I will add a switch transition and go into reading view from the previous slide; so we go forward to that slide and in a slideshow
mode I might be speaking about that particular slide. Say for example I bump the keyboard and I go forwards a little bit too quickly, I can use the
BACKSPACE key on the keyboard and the slide transition works in reverse. It’s a very useful addition to transitions in PowerPoint. It doesn’t
break the continuity of your talk, particularly when you’re presenting live. Notice also that you can change the duration of the transition so we
can actually select more than one slide holding the CTRL key by selecting those thumbnails and change the timing of the transitions to all of
those slides as well of course to one if it was selected. Now I bump that up to 2 seconds and of course that works forwards and in reverse as
well. But before we move on to look at the logic of adding transitions, let’s have a look at the apply to all button. When you apply a transition
to a slide, the apply to all button applies that transition, that is the effects and the timing of the transition to all slides in the presentation.
That’s a real time saver but it’s also useful because it is good to try and restrain yourself to using a single style of transition throughout your
presentation. And this will allow you to apply a particular one that you’ve got. Let’s look at the logic of adding transitions to presentations
slides. Now I’ve got some chevrons on this slide numbered 1, 2, 3, and then on the following slide numbered 4, 5, and 6 and so on. So to get
good continuity between these 2 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 3 slides and the slides enter in a logical fashion
and that gives continuity to our presentation. So I speak about items 1 to 3, click which brings in items 4 to 6, click and then 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 dynamic transitions but they’re actually very easy; just imagine that the transitions happen to everything on the slide
apart from the background. 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 slide will change but no one will be aware that it has; 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 does not. 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 reading view from slide 12. Now of course slide 12 appears
immediately because no transition was applied to that. However when I click, slide 13 moves in but it appears that the background stays there,
and the same for slide 14. And again these transitions work both forwards and in a backwards direction. So please consider using
slide transitions, from subtle transitions, to group similar ideas together, to 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 the slide on mouse click or
automatically, as well as the option to apply that particular transition to all slides. And of course the effect options, and the button to preview
which allows you to preview the effect without going into slideshow mode. Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions, there
are dynamic transitions where it is the objects on the slide that appear to move. Transitions work forwards and backwards as well and they
help increase the continuity of your presentation, but as always please don’t overuse them; it’s often better to stick to a
single style of transition throughout your whole presentation.