Researching and Presenting Data/Presenting/Animations and transitions

Researching and Presenting Data

Basic skills applicable to designing, creating and delivering a PowerPoint presentation.
An OP Online course from the National Certificate in Computing (Level 2) programme.

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Slide Transitions

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Please note: the following link will open in a new window/tab. When you have finished, simply close the window/tab and you'll return to this page. Work through the tutorial on using Transitions You might also find it helpful to view the video on page 2 of the tutorial.

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For Slide Transitions and Custom Animations it is important to keep them consistent, and that they are used to enhance the presentation rather than distract the audience from the information you are presenting. Too much movement and objects flying in can be distracting so choose carefully the effect you want to create.

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Tourism Dunedin part 9 Choose an appropriate slide transition and sound for your presentation. Try both manually advancing the slides and automatically as well. You can decide on the time between slides, it should be long enough to suit your presentation.

Add Custom Animation to individual objects

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Please note: the following link will open in a new window/tab. When you have finished, simply close the window/tab and you'll return to this page. Work through the tutorial on Animating Text and Objects You might also find it helpful to view the video on page 2 of the tutorial.

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Tourism Dunedin part 10 Use your Tourism Dunedin PowerPoint presentation to add Custom Animations. Add a Custom Animation to the Heading on each slide. Use an Entrance effect Add a Custom Animation to the images on each slide. Use the Emphasis effect You can choose the options for each animation, for example how fast and what direction it will come in from. Keep the animations consistent for each slide. Don’t use too many different effects.

Adding Timing Effects

The default Start is On Click, which means that the title won’t appear until you click your mouse. Using the default On Click start is not a good effect for a professional presentation, because the presenter has to constantly click the mouse instead of presenting the topic! We are going to change this:

1. Click on the corresponding number of the animation to show the drop down list
2. Choose Effect Options
3. From this down arrow on your animation choose Effect Options

   

4. A Box dialog box will appear: choose the Timing tab

   

5. Click on the Start down arrow
6. Choose After Previous
7. Choose Delay
8. Choose Speed
9. Change to 5 seconds (Very Slow)
10. Click on OK

This will give a smooth and professional look to your presentation. One action will follow on smoothly after the previous action with a slight delay.

Extra resources

Please note: the following link will open in a new window/tab. When you have finished, simply close the window/tab and you'll return to this page. Power Point: Transitions & Animations (YouTube)

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Tourism Dunedin part 11 Use your Tourism Dunedin PowerPoint presentation to add Timing Effects. On the slides with the animations choose Timing then After Previous, a two second speed and with a one second delay. This will give your presentation’s animations a consistent appearance.

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