Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
    • Using PowerPoint's Slide Show
    • Voice Narration
    • To Do: Use Action Buttons
    • Introducing Animation Schemes
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Introducing Animation Schemes

One of the more interesting features of PowerPoint is its ability to animate the various elements of your slides as the slide appears during the presentation. Consider how captivating your presentation could be when any of the following occurs:

• The title flies onto the slide from the side before the rest of the slide's contents appears.
• The top half of the slide falls down from the top while the bottom half of the slide rises up from the bottom of the screen.
• The slide's graphics appear and the text slowly fades into view.
• Each bulleted item in the list comes onto the slide by each letter cart-wheeling into view.
• Paragraphs of text fade in at different moments.
• The title of your slide bounces into view, and when it finally comes to rest at its anchored location, the rest of the slide appears.

To get started with animation effects, select Slide Show, Animation Schemes to display the Slide Design task pane shown in Figure 14.6 with the Animation Schemes option displayed. Read through the different animation options, and you'll see the plethora of effects that PowerPoint provides.

Figure 14.6 Specify animation by selecting from the Slide Design task pane.

To apply an animation, first display the slide to which you want to apply the animation. Locate the slide by clicking on the slide's thumbnail at the left of the screen or by pressing PageUp or PageDown to display the slide. With the slide showing, click on one of the animation effects.

PowerPoint groups the animation effects by three primary categories: Subtle, Moderate, and Exciting. Each refers to the impact of the effect you choose. Any of the Exciting animation schemes will have far more action than any of the Subtle schemes.

If, after applying a scheme, you decide that you don't want the animated effect, click the No Animation option to remove the animation. If a slide is showing, display the Slide Design task pane and click on different schemes. PowerPoint will show you what the animation looks like.

Keep in mind that the animation schemes apply to specific elements of your presentation's slides. For example, the Rise Up animation first shows your slide's background image, then the title rises from the bottom of the screen, and then the rest of the slide appears. Unless you've created a slide from a blank slide—keeping all text in the same format and on the same outline promotion level with no animation added—the animation schemes can consistently apply themselves across your presentation if you reuse the same animation on different slides. If you ever change the presentation's Design Template (by clicking on the Slide Design task pane's Design Templates option and choosing a new design), the animations will still work but will be applied to the new design's elements.

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