Powerpoint 2007

Entrance Effects and Sounds for Slide 2

2009/04/23

The question we receive the most is: “How do you get the text to enter one letter at a time and have it sound like a typewriter is typing the text?”

We’ll now show you how to do this.

You should be on Slide 1 in the Normal View screen. We need to move to Slide 2. Look at left side of the Normal View screen. You will see that this area looks like the image to the left. Click-on Slide 2 in this area. A orange border will go around the small slide and you will see Slide 2 in the center portion of your screen.

You will see your bulleted list of ingredients in the large Slide 2 area. Move your cursor anywhere over the list and click on the list. Your bulleted list should look like the image.

Click the Animations Tab again, then click the down triangle to the right of Custom Ani…. When the drop down menu appears click Custom Animation.

You will see the Custom Animation Task Pane appear on the right (as you did in Slide 1).
Select Add Effect, then Entrance and then More Effects (as you did in Slide 1).

This may not seem like much, but the choice of the Entrance Effect is very important here. Notice, in the image to the right, that we chose Appear. We need the text to enter, letter-by-letter, very quickly. Appear will take care of this. Other choices may “look funny” when the animation is “running.” When you become more accomplished with PowerPoint – try all kinds of effects. Click the OK button when you have selected Appear.

Look down the Custom Animation Task Pane on the right side of the screen until you see an area that looks like the image on the left. Click the small down arrow on the right edge of the Content Placeholder and select Effect Options.

When you click Effect Options an Appear menu screen (similar to the one on the right) will become visible. We’ve gone ahead and entered the effects to make our text look and sound like an “old timey” typewriter typing.

We clicked the down triangles to the right of each feature and did the following:

Sound: We clicked the down arrow to the right of Sound ( 1. ) and chose Typewriter.

After animation (Dimming):

We noticed that before we clicked the down arrow, that the words “Don’t Dim” appeared in the area to the right of After animation. We then clicked on the down arrow and chose the light blue color that appeared ( 2. ). When you are making your PowerPoint presentation, you might like to have the bullet, about which you are speaking, be more noticeable than the bullets about which you’ve already spoken. By choosing the light blue color, as you move through the bulleted items, you will see the last bullet dim and the new bullet be more noticeable. In a moment, when we complete this Appear Effect menu, we’ll Play our slide and you’ll see what we mean.

Animate text:

We clicked-on the down arrow and chose By letter ( 3. ).

Seconds delay between letters

We used the small “up and down” arrows to indicate 0.1 seconds between letters ( 4. ). When you “play” this slide you may desire to slow down or speed up the typing sound. To do so simply repeat the above and vary the seconds.

When you complete your Appear menu screen it Click OK.

Now, click-on Play at the bottom right of your screen. You will see the text enter like it’s being typed, hear the typewriter sound, and see the bullets dim as you proceed on to the next bullet.

Sound

Be Careful with Sound

Be careful when using sound for transitions and text animation. Sometimes, too many effects can overwhelm and detract from a presentation. As you become more experienced with sounds, and PowerPoint slides, you will find many web pages devoted to sounds and clip art. In the Front Page tutorials, there is a section on WAV sounds. If you desire a copy of any of these tutorials, simply e-mail the addresses at the end of this tutorial. You may want to experiment with some other sounds you “download and save” form the internet.

Don’t forget to keep saving your presentation as you enhance it with these effects.

Text Effects - Build:

2009/04/23

Building is a term indicating how each line of the text (on a slide) will enter the screen. The lines, words, letters, pictures and charts can move in or appear from almost any direction. To Build the text on each slide, follow these directions.

Go back to Normal View. You can do this in Slide Sorter View by double clicking quickly on the first slide or by Clicking on the Normal View button on the lower right corner of the screen.

Transitions:

2009/04/23

Now we’ll add some pizzazz to our presentation. When you viewed your slide show, a few moments ago, it was like “flopping down” plastic transparencies on an overhead projector.” Nothing really fantastic. Now we’ll add some motion, animation, sound, and color and really make our presentation something to view.

Viewing your Slide Show

2009/04/23

You have just completed the first stage of your presentation. Go back to Slide 1. You can do this by using the “elevator bar” on the left edge of your screen. If you click at the top of the elevator bar you will keep moving up until you come to your first slide. Click-on Slide 1. It will indicate Slide 1 of 9 in the status area in the lower left corner of your screen. You should recognize this slide as your first slide on How to make a Great PBJ.

Slide 9 - Motion Paths

2009/04/23

PowerPoint 2007 has some really neat features that you might like to try. You can “trace a path” for an image to follow around or across the slide. You can have a porpoise jumping in and out of the water at the bottom of the slide, or maybe a bat or bat flying around in the top portion.