How To Customize Effect Options In PowerPoint

Once you've inserted effects for the text and objects in your PowerPoint slide show slides, if you don't want to use the program's default settings, you can completely customize it according to your needs. In this article, Blebees Instructions on how to customize effects in PowerPoint will guide you how to do it.

How to preview the effect

After you have animated text and objects in your PowerPoint slide show slides, you can preview it in one go to test it. Here's how to do it:

Step 1: Click on the slide you want to see the effect applied.

Step 2: On the ribbon interface, select the Animations tab, then click the Preview button. Immediately the effects applied to the current slide appear.

Manage and customize slideshow effects with Animation Pane

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Usually in the slides will have many different effects, applied to many different objects and text. In that case to easily manage applied effects, PPoint has an important tool which is the Animation Pane.

Through the Animation Pane, you can modify and rearrange the effects to suit your needs.
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How to open the Animation Pane

Step 1: On the ribbon interface, select the Animations tab, then click the Animation Pane button of the Advanced Animation feature group.

Step 2: Immediately the Animation Pane frame will be opened to the right of the current slide's working window, showing all effects applied in the slide in order of their appearance.

If in your slide there are many objects applied effects, then you rename them before rearranging by.

Click the object, then select the Format tab, click the Selection Pane button, and then double-click the object's name in the right pane under Selection to rename it.

How to rearrange the effects in the Animation Pane

Step 1: Return to the Animation Pane window, to change the position of the effect appearing in the slide during the slide show, you just need to press and hold the left mouse button on the effect name and then drag and drop to the appropriate position.

Step 2: The effects will be rearranged in the order you want.

Preview the effects on the Animation Pane

Step 1: After rearranging the effects, on the Animation Pane group press the Play All button.

Step 2: The effects on the newly created slide will be played. The right side of the Animation Pane will also display the playback progress timeline in the order of each effect.

In case you don't see the Timeline, click on the drop-down arrow and select Show Advanced Timeline ..

Change the effect's start option

In PPoint, by default, when the user left mouse click in the presentation, the effect will start playing. If the slide has many effects, you will have to click repeatedly to switch between different effects, this will take a lot of time and is only suitable during your editing.

If you want, you can set the slide effects to play at the same time or turn without clicking. Do it by.

Step 1: From the Animation Pane frame on the right, click an effect, then click the drop-down arrow icon to the right of that effect.

Step 2: In the drop-down menu, there will be 3 options to choose from, including Start on Click (click to start the effect), Start With Before (effects appear simultaneously) and Start After Before (effects will appear in sequence).

Step 3: Depending on your needs, click to select the type of slideshow effect the way you want.

Customize effects more deeply with Effect Options

Corresponding to each effect inserted for objects in the slide, PPoint also provides more detailed options for users to customize through the Effect Options option.

Step 1: From the Animation Pane frame on the right, click an effect to customize details.

Step 2: Click the drop-down arrow icon to the right of that effect and select the Effect Options option.

Step 3: The Effect Options dialog box appears, allowing you to set other custom effects such as sound, add effects after the animation ends or animate the text in a different order.

In case you want to change the duration of the effect applied to the objects, do the following:

Step 1: From the Effect Options dialog box, select the Timing tab.

Step 2: Add delay (Delay) before the effect starts, change the duration of the effect and control whether the effect is repeated or not according to demand.

Thereby hope you can have more creative ways to customize the effects applied to objects in the slides of the PPoint.

In the process of using if you have any questions, please leave the question below for us to answer.

Although the above steps and setup are done on PPoint 2013, you can do the same on other versions of PPoint.

Source: Blebees.com

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