Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...

On the Draw tab, select a pen in the Drawing Tools group and draw a text on the slide. Press the Esc key to exit the pen effect. Click on the Drawn text, then click the Animations tab. Click the ...

Nothing can revive a DOA PowerPoint presentation faster than animations. Applied judiciously, these motion effects can bring dynamism to your deck and make your message more powerful. Using the ...

Follow the steps below to create a door opening animation in PowerPoint: Now place the shape to the left of the slide or any location on the slide you want the animated door to be located. Click the ...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint treats Flash animations like videos that can be embedded in or linked to in a presentation. On the Insert tab in PowerPoint, click the "Video" button on the far right and ...

Master presenter, author and consultant Nancy Duarte says that presenters should use "visuals to communicate the story in a clear, engaging way." Animation serves the story that you're telling with ...

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

To reverse the order of an animation (applied to a SmartArt Graphics) under Powerpoint, follow the below procedure. To reverse the order of a slideshow animation in Powerpoint: Click on the SmartArt ...