Transitions

Quick reference

• 00:03 This video covers transitions in PowerPoint.
• 00:05 Transitions are such an important way of moving from one slide to the next
• 00:08 in either a subtle or an exciting fashion.
• 00:11 In this video, we're going to cover the types of transitions, the timing,
• 00:14 the fact that they work backwards and forward.
• 00:16 A little bit about the logic of using transitions, dynamic transitions and
• 00:21 morph transitions,
• 00:22 which are only available in the Office 365 subscription version of PowerPoint 2016.
• 00:27 So let's hit the Escape key on the keyboard and get out of reading view,
• 00:30 which has been running this presentation constrained within a window and
• 00:34 here's our presentation.
• 00:35 Notice that I've got some sections, which group my slides into various concepts and
• 00:39 sections of the subject of another video.
• 00:41 And so I've titled this section about subtle transitions and deciding,
• 00:45 and so on.
• 00:46 So let's have a look at a Transitions tab on the ribbon.
• 00:48 The first thing we notice is the transitions to this slide group,
• 00:52 as well as effect options and some timing options.
• 00:56 I drop the little arrow down known as the More button,
• 00:58 because it shows more options.
• 01:00 And it shows the groups of transitions being subtle, exciting and dynamic.
• 01:05 So I choose a subtle transition, a fade and
• 01:08 we get a preview of how that will appear.
• 01:10 For this slide, I select Reveal and a bit of our preview again.
• 01:14 And now, let's go into reading view and
• 01:17 click through the preview of those slides and see how those transitions work.
• 01:21 And so, subtle transitions are very good when you've got a particular area of your
• 01:26 presentation and you wanna encourage the flow between slides not to
• 01:29 interrupt the concentration of your audience.
• 01:32 However, when you move from a particular area of the presentation into a whole new
• 01:35 concept or perhaps even another speaker, it's okay to have an exciting transition.
• 01:39 Or perhaps, your presentation is stand alone and
• 01:41 you wanna make you presentation a bit more engaging and
• 01:44 standalone presentations are the subject of other videos.
• 01:47 So, we select the slide that we wish to add the transition to.
• 01:51 Drop the little more button down again and we have transitions such as cube.
• 01:56 We get a preview or flip, or shred.
• 02:00 And these transitions, again, are just a way to breaking up a presentation
• 02:04 into more defined blocks of information within the storyline of the presentation.
• 02:09 Notice the Effect Options button, the context of which
• 02:12 changes depending on which transition on the slide you have selected.
• 02:17 These options really are a variation of the transition applied such as quite
• 02:21 often the direction.
• 02:23 So we select slide seven, remember that a transition governs the effect that will
• 02:27 occur moving towards the slide that you place a transition on.
• 02:34 I will add a Switch transition and go into reading view from the previous slide.
• 02:38 So we go forward to that slide, slide show mode and
• 02:42 I might be speaking about that particular slide.
• 02:45 So for example, I bump the keyboard and I go forward a little bit too quickly, I
• 02:49 can use the backspace key on the keyboard and the slide transition works in reverse.
• 02:54 It's a very useful addition to transitions in PowerPoint.
• 02:57 It doesn't break the continuity of you're talk,
• 02:58 particularly when you're presenting live.
• 03:01 Notice also that you can change the duration of a transition, so
• 03:04 we can actually select more than one slide holding the Ctrl key.
• 03:08 By selecting those thumbnails, and change the timing of
• 03:11 the transitions to all of those slides as well as to one if it was selected.
• 03:16 Now, I bumped that up to two seconds.
• 03:18 And of course, that works forwards and in reverse as well.
• 03:21 But before we move on to look at the logic of adding transitions,
• 03:24 let's have a look at the Apply to All button.
• 03:28 When you apply a transition to a slide,
• 03:30 the Apply to All button applies the transition.
• 03:33 That is the effect on the timing of the transition to all slides in
• 03:37 the presentation.
• 03:39 That's a real time saver, but it's also useful, because it's good to try and
• 03:43 restrain yourself to using a single type of transition throughout your
• 03:47 presentation.
• 03:48 This will allow you to apply particular one that you've got.
• 03:51 Let's look at the logic of adding transitions to presentation slides.
• 03:57 Now I've got some SharePoint on this slide number 1, 2,
• 04:00 3 and then on the following slide number 4, 5, 6 and so on.
• 04:04 So, to get good continuity between this two slides.
• 04:07 So, the logical transition to add is a push transition from right.
• 04:12 And again, we apply the same transition of push from right to the next slide as well.
• 04:17 Now, we preview the transition of those three slides and
• 04:20 the slides enter in a logical fashion and that gives continuity to our presentation.
• 04:26 So I speak about items 1 to 3, click, click brings in items four to 4 to 6.
• 04:31 Click and then items 7 to 9.
• 04:36 So, always think about the logic of your transitions that you apply to your slides
• 04:40 in a presentation.
• 04:42 Dynamic transitions, some people struggle to understand dynamic transitions, but
• 04:46 they're actually very easy.
• 04:48 Just imagine that the transitions happen to everything on the slide apart
• 04:52 from the background.
• 04:53 A dynamic transition is really a dual transition.
• 04:56 The first part of the transition,
• 04:58 a fade transition is applied to the slide background.
• 05:01 Now if the slide background on both slides is identical, the slide will change, but
• 05:06 no one will be aware that it has.
• 05:07 It appears to stay static.
• 05:09 For the second part of the transition,
• 05:11 a different transition is applied to the objects on the slide.
• 05:13 And when they are played, the objects will move, but it appears as though,
• 05:18 the slide doesn't.
• 05:19 So on slide 13, I will apply a rotate dynamic transition.
• 05:23 And on slide 14, I will apply a fly through dynamic transition.
• 05:27 So, let's preview that in reading view from slide 12.
• 05:31 Now of course, slide 12 appears immediately,
• 05:33 because no transition was applied to it.
• 05:36 However, when I click slide 13 moves in, but
• 05:40 it appears that the background stays there and the same for slide 14.
• 05:46 And again, these transitions work both forwards and in a backwards direction.
• 05:50 Now quickly, to morph transitions available only in the Office 365
• 05:54 subscription version of PowerPoint 2016.
• 05:57 Morph is similar in concept to dynamic, but
• 06:00 it changes objects by calculating the transition between that object and
• 06:04 the same object on a different slide at a different location or size or both.
• 06:10 I have a picture of the Earth that I downloaded form an online picture source
• 06:13 within PowerPoint.
• 06:14 Let's duplicate that slide by selecting the thumbnail and Ctrl+D.
• 06:19 Go to the second slide, move the image to the right and make it bigger.
• 06:26 Then duplicate slide one again and drag it to the end of the presentation.
• 06:30 We move the image and shrink it.
• 06:35 Now add a morph transition to every slide, slide one,
• 06:38 slide two, slide three and leave the other options as they are.
• 06:44 If I've, for a slideshow, the first slide appears.
• 06:47 Click the mouse to fire the transition and notice how the transition calculates
• 06:52 where the objects is on slide two and it's size and position morphs to it.
• 06:57 Click again and it morphs to the next position on slide three.
• 07:01 Now let's move the image on slide three to a new position, click F5.
• 07:08 Click to transition the slide 2 to slide 3.
• 07:11 Wow, that is awesome.
• 07:14 So, please consider using slide transitions from subtle transitions to
• 07:18 group similar ideas together to more exciting transitions between separate
• 07:22 groups of ideas in your story.
• 07:24 On the Transitions tab of the ribbon is the transitions to this slide group.
• 07:29 Options to advance the slide on mouse click or automatically, as well as
• 07:33 the option to apply that particular transition to one or all slides.
• 07:36 And of course, the Effect options and buttons to Preview,
• 07:39 which allows you to preview the effect without going into slideshow mode.
• 07:44 Remember that in addition to subtle and exciting transitions, there
• 07:47 are dynamic transitions where it is the object on the slide that appears to move.
• 07:52 Transitions work forwards and backwards, as well and they help increase
• 07:56 the continuity of a presentation but please don't overuse them.
• 08:00 It's often better to stick to a single style of transitions throughout your whole
• 08:03 presentation.
• 08:05 And of course, remember and play with the new morph transition that's available
• 08:10 in the Office 365 subscription of PowerPoint 2016.
• 08:13 It really is awesome.

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