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Choosing additional properties of an animation

effect

Many animations have a set of properties that you can set or change.

For example, if you chose the Change Font Color effect on the

Emphasis

page, you can specify the font color. If you chose Fly In on

the

Entrance

page, you can specify the direction from which the object

flies in.

The label on the properties box changes depending on the choices

available for each effect. For example, a Fly In effect has a box labelled

Direction

and a Change Font Color effect has a box labelled

Font color

Example: Using multiple animation effects

To illustrate how you can set up multiple effects, let’s look at a

common animation: list items fly in one at a time from the bottom of

the slide, and as each new item appears, the previous items change to

a different color. Here is how to create these effects.

Step 1. Apply the “fly in” effect to individual list items.

1) Display the

Custom Animation

page of the Task pane.

2) Create a slide with several items in a bullet list. Our example slide

(Figure 164) has four.

Figure 164: Example slide for multiple animations

3) Select all four items. Click Add on the Custom Animation pane.

4) On the

Entrance

page of the Custom Animation dialog box (Figure

165), select Fly In, optionally change the Speed to Medium, and

click OK.

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