Jul 7, 2009

How to present one bullet point at a time?

A few years back my superior at office was making a slide. He had 5 sentences (as bullet points) and he wanted to present them one at a time. He wanted to achieve what's explained in the following slide: This is not a normal animation which people use, but this can be of immense use in cases where you want to present points in a sequence. Presenting one bullet at a time ensuring full audience attention on the presented point. It is especially helpful when you have many bullet points and you don't want to show all of them on the slide. This is how you do it.

Step-1

Click on the placeholder (denoted by arrow) -> Go to Animations tab -> Choose Custom Animation Step-2
Add Effect -> Entrance -> Fade
This effect will ensure every bullet point will enter with a 'fade' effect. You can choose any other Entrance Effect you desire. Step-3
Under Custom Animation on the right, select Effect Options. Step-4
Under Effects Tab -> After Animation -> Choose Hide on Next Mouse Click
Your animation is ready! Try this out and use it when you want 100% audience attention on one of your bullet points.

What if you don't use bullet points? Bullet points have already become the most despised thing about presentations today. What if you just have 3 text boxes? How do you animate them in a similar manner? Click and the first text box appears. Click again and it disappears and the next text box appears.

Try solving this exercise and let me know how you did it? Unable to solve, shoot me a mail or leave a comment on the blog.

7 comments:

  1. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Saved my butt here :)

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  2. I love this expalnation it was very easy to follow . Thank you

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  3. this is exactly what I needed . thank you!

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  4. Great tutorial. Thank you!

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  5. Thanks straight to the point no nonsense... :)

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