Tip #3881 - Emphasize It!
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Emphasize
It!
Have you ever given
an MS PowerPoint presentation and found yourself wishing that you had
a way to really emphasize a picture, chart, text or whatever? You know,
really make it jump off the screen.
What if you could find a way
to have the object grow before the audience's eyes?
That would certainly
direct their attention to your intended subject rather quickly, wouldn't
you say?
Well, if this sounds
like it might do the trick for adding more attention to your presentation,
here's the information you're looking for.
The first thing you
need to do is select the item to be emphasized.
Now, we need to set
the object's animation. We can do this through the Slide Show
menu, Custom Animation choice. This will open the Custom
Animation portion of the Task Pane.
Click the Add
Effect button at the top.
When the menu opens,
go to the Emphasis submenu and choose Grow/Shrink
from the list. (If you've chosen to emphasize some text, the top three
choices will be available too).
The object and its
animation will appear in the list in the center. With it selected, you
can make some decisions regarding this choice just above the list.
Start
allows you to tell PowerPoint when to begin the animation.
Size
will allow you to make some decisions about how the object will change.
Obviously, by the name, there are choices to make the object both larger
and smaller, as well as, in which direction the changes should apply.
And in the Speed
category, you can tell PowerPoint how fast to make the changes.
Set your preferences
and you're good to go. An emphasis no one can possibly miss!
~ April
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