PowerPoint provides a variety of options to give motion to text. PowerPoint text animation draws viewers’ attention to the key points of your presentation and make viewing experience more fun. You can animate a text object on the slide with an entrance, emphasis, exit or motion path effects. Also there are different options to animate the text box in parts by paragraph or even by letter.
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- Watch how to make bullet points appear one at a time during a slide show.
- Follow these steps to apply animation to text and explore various options for text animation in PowerPoint 2011: Select part of the text, or the entire text box / placeholder that contains bulleted text (or paragraphs).
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It will take a few simple steps to apply different animation effects to text and make it visually appealing.
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- Select a text box you would like to animate by clicking on the frame.
- Go to the tab and choose an animation effect you like.
- To see the whole list of animations, click the button on the tab.
- Now you can configure options for a certain animation. Select animation on the Animation Pane and choose from the drop-down menu.
- Go to the tab and choose the option: “All at once”, “By word” or “By Letter”. You can also set delay between animations in percentage for the last two start animation types.
In the tab choose the option for the animation: On click, With Previous or After Previous. You can set in seconds for the chosen animation, choose Duration (fast, medium or slow) and number of .
Note: iSpring will read infinity value as a 1 because the conversion engine cannot calculate the length of the slide, which is important to proceed. To work around this, set Repeat to any numeric value, e.g. 99, it will imitate a very long repeated action.
Tip: You can access timing options on the and edit them by moving and arranging different animation tracks.
If text contains a bulleted list, you can set up the paragraph level till which animation will go in steps. Go to the tab. Choose by what paragraph level you want to animate your text in the drop-down list.
For example, on this slide we have 4 paragraphs with nested levels from 1 to 4. If you set text animation By 2nd Level Paragraphs, two of them will be animated in a sequence while the rest of the bullets (the 3rd and the 4th levels) will be animated at once.
You may notice animation IDs with numbers when you select the text box. Animations with equal numbers will be animated simultaneously.
Once all the options are selected, click to close the Animation Effects window. You can preview animations in the Animation Pane. To see the final result, go to the Slide Show tab or press crtl+F5 to start playing the presentation from the current slide.
Now you can apply text animations and iSpring will take care of converting them to both Web formats Flash and HTML5.
WordArt text animation
In PowerPoint you can apply WordArt styles to the text.
Stylized text is converted to a raster image with iSpring, therefore, can’t retain the animation. Still you can apply animation to a WordArt object. To do it, right click on the stylized text, choose and this picture into a slide. Then apply animation to the raster image. Note, that you can’t change text or adjust styles after you attach it as a picture.
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Animate Text In Powerpoint 2016
I am trying to animate text so that it appears word-by-word. I have followed the steps:
- Create text in a Textbox
- Click
Animationsribbon - Click
Appear - In the Animations formatting options, click
Text Animations- In
Animate Text, selectBy word
- In
However, when I do this, the animation makes the first word appear, and on the next click makes all of the words appear.
Is there something else I need to change?
I am using PowerPoint v15.24 for OSX
2 Answers
There shouldn't be anything else you need to do, although you should perhaps check the Effects Options for the delay between words. Perhaps it is too long.
For this animation you don't click to make each word appear, they appear after a time interval. When you click it will bring everything up at once because the click takes you on to the next item in the animation list, not the next word. So in other words your click says, 'no matter how many words you got around to displaying, move on to the next thing.'
If you want to click to make each individual word appear you'll have to make each word a separate text box and animate it individually.
I have had luck working around the 'word-by-word' approach by doing this...
- Enter your text.
- Create a rectangle shape (or insert a rectangle picture) that is the same color as the slide background. Arrange the shape/graphic above the text (Bring to Front).
- Select the rectangle and choose a 'fly out' or 'float out' animation, then choose the right direction arrow to make the animation effect go from left to right.
The animation will reveal the underlying text. You can open the animation pane and play with timings. It's also even slicker if the rectangle is created as a graphic with a faded left edge so that, as it flies out, the text seems to fade in as it is revealed.