PowerPoint

Unit 1: Creating a Presentation with PowerPoint

Lesson 2: Enhancing the look of your Presentation

How do you add slide transitions?

Adding slide transitions is one way to enhance the look of your presentation. A slide transition is an animation used to introduce a slide during a slide show. If you haven't already, you should browse the concept explaining slide transitions.

You add a slide transition to a specific slide or all slides in a presentation. You can add a slide transition from any of the views designed for data entry (slide view, outline view, slide sorter view, and notes page view). Slide sorter view has one advantage over the others because it has a toolbar pull-down menu for specifying slide transitions:

In all data entry views you can use the Slide Show/Slide Transition menu option to specify a slide transition. This menu option brings up a dialog box with additional options not available from the toolbar.

The following animation show both methods for adding a slide transition (menu option and toolbar pull-down menu):

Adding a slide transition

Some things to note about the above animation,

Before you can use the menu command or toolbar options, you must first select the slide.
The menu command brings up a dialog box that allows you to add the transition to all slides in the presentation.
You can preview a slide transition you have added with the animation preview button under the slide or with the Animation Preview command under the Slide Show menu option.