Use the options, when you want the animation to affect one character or one word at a time. Hide means hide the animation after it completes, or hide the animation when the user clicks the mouse.Īnimate Text is only available if your animation includes characters, words, or sentences. Don’t Dim means don’t fade it out into the background. If you choose a color, the object(s) in your animation will change to that color at the end. JD SartainĪfter Animation is another cool feature that provides options including Colors (and More Colors), Don’t Dim, Hide After Animation, and Hide on Next Mouse Click. Navigate to your music or speech folder, select the appropriate file, then click Insert.

NOTE: To insert a narrator’s comments or music, from the Insert tab, click Audio, then choose Audio on My PC or Record Audio from the list. I needed them to continue moving/jingling until the end of the slide, or else the bells would be stationary while the audio was still jingling. For example, in the original animation for the jingling bells, they only moved back and forth two times. Repeat is the number of times you want the animation repeated in your slideshow.

For example, I used this once in a slideshow when I had to set the Duration/speed to Fast so the sound of the jingling bells would match the movement of the jingling bells. These options are very useful if something in your animation has to match the audio.

This is very important if you are trying to time or match the audio to each slide.ĭuration options are the time, length, and speed of the animation (in seconds). For instance, if you choose After Previous (as the Start time for the animation), you could then set a Delay time of two seconds. Delay options are timed in seconds, which just means you can set the animation on a time delay clock for X number of seconds after the option you select above.

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