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Add smooth or exciting transitions between slides to increase the smoothness and continuity of your slideshow into an almost movie-like format.
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Quick reference
Transitions
Using slide transitions to provide continuity or a break between slides.
When to use
Use to gradually transition between slides with similar content, or use more exciting transitions to create a break between themes in the presentation.
Instructions
- When applying a Transition, select the slide you want to transition to.
- To apply a transition, click the thumbnail for the transition you wish to apply in the transition to this slide group.
- Use the Effect Options drop-down arrow to change the direction or other effects relating to that transition.
- On the Transitions tab, in the Timing group, you can:
- Apply a sound to a transition,
- Change the duration of a transition,
- Apply the current transition and settings to all slides,
- Advance the slide by clicking, after a specific duration of time, or both.
- Transition Styles are available when you click the arrow at the edge of the transition thumbnails, and include:
- Subtle, such as Reveal and Wipe,
- Exciting, such as Ripple and Honeycomb.
- Dynamic content, in which there is a different transition for the slide as opposed to the content on the slide:
- The slide background will fade from one slide to the next. If the slide background is identical, it will appear as though the slide background doesn’t transition.
- The objects on the slide will undergo a dynamic transition and will appear to leave the slide behind to be replaced by new content on that slide.
Also note:
Some transitions are excellent between groups of slides when you don’t want to break people’s concentration.
Exciting and dynamic transitions are excellent between various concepts in a presentation when you want to give the audience clues that you’re moving to a new concept in the presentation.
Transitions also work in reverse. You can try this by pressing the Backspace key during a slide show to go back to a previous, transition slide.
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Morph transitions change objects by calculating the transition between that object, and the same object on a different slide at a different location and size.
Instructions
- Place a picture of a shape on a slide.
- In either the Slides Pane or the Slide Sorter view:
- Right-click a thumbnail in the Slide Pane view and select Duplicate Slide.
- Move the image of shape to a new location and change its size.
- Click the Transitions tab and select Morph in the Transitions to this slide group.
- Click F5 on your keyboard to open a slideshow.
- Click the mouse to fire the transition and notice how the transition calculates where the object is on the second (duplicated) slide and ‘morphs’ to it.
- 00:00 This video covers transition in PowerPoint.
- 00:07 Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next,
- 00:12 either in a subtle or an exciting fashion.
- 00:15 In this video, we're going to cover the types of transitions, the timing,
- 00:19 the fact that they work forwards and backwards.
- 00:21 A little bit about the logic of using transitions, and
- 00:25 then finally dynamic transitions.
- 00:27 And morph transitions, which are actually quite amazing,
- 00:31 will be the subject of another video.
- 00:34 So let's hit Escape on the keyboard, and get out of reading view.
- 00:38 We've just been running this presentation constrained with a window.
- 00:41 And here's our presentation.
- 00:42 Notice that I've got some sections which group my slides into various concepts, and
- 00:47 sections are also the subject of another video.
- 00:50 Let's first have a look at the Transitions tab on the ribbon.
- 00:53 The first thing we notice is the transitions to this slide group,
- 00:58 as well as effect options and some timing options.
- 01:02 I drop the little arrow down known as the More button because it shows more options,
- 01:06 and it shows the group of transitions, subtle, exciting and dynamic and so on.
- 01:12 So I choose a subtle transition of Fade, and
- 01:15 we get a preview of how that will appear.
- 01:18 For this slide, I select Reveal, and a bit of a preview again.
- 01:22 And now let's go into Reading view, and click through those slides, and
- 01:26 see how the transitions work.
- 01:28 And so subtle transitions are a very good way when you've got a particular area for
- 01:33 your presentation and you want to encourage the flow between slides and
- 01:37 not to interrupt the concentration of your audience.
- 01:41 However, when you move from a particular area of the presentation into a whole new
- 01:44 concept or perhaps even another speaker, it's okay to have an exciting transition.
- 01:50 Or perhaps, you're presentation is standalone and
- 01:53 you wanna make your presentation a bit more engaging.
- 01:55 And standalone presentations are the subjects of other videos, as well.
- 02:00 So we select the slide that we wish to add the transition to.
- 02:04 Drop the little More button down again and we have transitions such as Cube.
- 02:09 We get a preview of Flip and Shred.
- 02:12 And these transitions again are just a way of breaking up our presentation into
- 02:15 more defined blocks of information within the story line.
- 02:20 Notice the Effect Options button, the context of which changes
- 02:24 depending on which transition on the slide you've selected.
- 02:27 These options really are a variation of the transition applied.
- 02:31 Such as quite often the direction.
- 02:34 So if we select slide seven, remember that a transition governs the effect
- 02:39 that will occur moving towards the slide that you have the transition placed on.
- 02:45 I will add a switch transition and we go forward to that slide, and
- 02:50 in our slide show mode I might be speaking about a particular slide.
- 02:54 So for example, I bumped the keyboard and I go forward a little bit too quickly.
- 02:58 I could use the backspace key on the keyboard and
- 03:00 the slide transition works in reverse.
- 03:03 It's a very powerful addition to transitions in PowerPoint that makes them
- 03:07 so good.
- 03:08 It doesn't break the continuity.
- 03:10 You talk particularly when you're presenting live and you make a mistake.
- 03:13 Notice also that you can change the duration of the transition so
- 03:16 that we could actually select more than one slide, holding the control key and
- 03:21 select those thumbnails and change the timing of those transition.
- 03:26 Now, I'll bump that up to two seconds and of course that works forward and
- 03:30 in reverse, as well.
- 03:31 But before we move on to a lot further at the logic of adding transition,
- 03:36 let's have a look at the Apply to All button.
- 03:38 When you apply a transition to a slide via Apply to All,
- 03:42 applies that transition, that is the effects and
- 03:46 the timing of the transition to all slides in the presentation.
- 03:51 It's a real time saver, but it's also useful because it's good try and restrain
- 03:54 yourself to using a single style of transition throughout your presentation.
- 03:59 And this will allow you to apply a particular look to the whole presentation.
- 04:07 Let's look at the logic of adding transitions to presentations.
- 04:12 I've got some chevrons on this slide number one, two, three.
- 04:16 And then on the following slide, numbered four, five,and six and so on.
- 04:20 So to get good continuity between these slides,
- 04:22 the logical transition to add is a push transition From Right,
- 04:28 and again, we apply the same transition of Push From Right to the next slide as well.
- 04:34 Now, we preview the transition of those three slides, and
- 04:38 the slides enter in a logical fashion.
- 04:40 And that gives continuity to our presentation.
- 04:43 So I speak about items 1, 2, and 3.
- 04:47 Click which brings you in items 4 to 6, click and that brings you in items 7 to 9.
- 04:52 So always think about the logic of transitions that you apply to your slides
- 04:56 in a presentation.
- 04:58 Dynamic transitions, some people struggle to understand these, but
- 05:01 they're actually very easy.
- 05:03 Just imagine the transition happens to everything
- 05:06 on the slide apart from the background,
- 05:09 provided that the background is the same on different slides.
- 05:13 So a dynamic transition is really a dual transition.
- 05:16 The first part of the transition,
- 05:17 a fade transition, is applied to the slide background.
- 05:21 Now, if the slide background on both slides is identical,
- 05:24 the slides will change but no-one will know, they just won't see it.
- 05:28 It appears to stay static.
- 05:30 For the second part of the transition, a different transition is applied to
- 05:34 the objects on the slide, and when the transition is played the objects will move
- 05:38 but it appears as though the slide itself doesn't.
- 05:42 So on slide 13, I will apply a rotate dynamic transition.
- 05:47 And on slide 14, I will apply a Fly Through dynamic transition.
- 05:52 So let's preview that in readign view from slide 12.
- 05:56 Now of course, slide 12 appears immediately,
- 05:58 because no transition was applied.
- 06:00 However, when I click slide 13, it moves in but
- 06:02 it appears that the background stays there, and the same for slide 14.
- 06:07 And again, this transitions work backwards and forwards.
- 06:10 So please consider using slide transitions,
- 06:12 from subtle transitions to group similar ideas together,
- 06:15 to a more exciting transitions between separate groups of ideas in your story.
- 06:20 On the Transitions tab of the ribbon, is the transitions to this slide group.
- 06:25 Options to advance a slide, on Mouse Click or automatically,
- 06:29 as well as the option to apply that particular transition to all the slides.
- 06:33 And of course, the effect options, and the button to preview,
- 06:35 which allows you to preview the effect without going into slide show mode.
- 06:40 Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions,
- 06:43 there are dynamic transitions whereas the objects on the slide that appear to move.
- 06:49 But don't overuse transitions, it's better to stick to a single style of transition
- 06:54 throughout your whole presentation rather than to overwhelm people.
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