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Using the Animation Pane

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Using the Animation Pane

- [Instructor] Revealing a complicated slide all at once can disorient students, leaving them uncertain where to focus. But you can control their attention through strategic animations. Before adding animations to this starter slide, let's explore how animations work more generally. Animations are controlled through the animations tab, which is found here in the main ribbon. To animate an object, you first have to select it. We'll start with the base of our triangle. You can add animations here in the shortcut bar, but to explore the full range of animations, you'll need to choose this add animations icon. There are four types. Entrance and exit animations control how objects appear and disappear. You've also got a variety of emphasis animations, which draw attention to an object by changing its behavior. Finally, there are motion pads, which control how objects move around a screen. This is actually only a partial list of animation types. To see the full range, select the more option…

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