Creative Slide Effects and Animations Guide

2. Book report by Mrs. Theriault

3. How can I create cool effects? • Change the background: right click on the background of the slide. • Click on the pull down menu box. You can change the color of the background, search for more colors or add “Fill effects” (which are very cool!)

4. Create Fill Effects • You’re still in the background menu right? Click on “Fill effects” • From here you can change the gradient (two or more colors blending into each other, like the background of this show) • You can also change the texture, pattern or even add a picture (Oh yeah! That’s sounds cool! Let’s do that.)

5. Add a picture to the background • Find a picture you like. This can be from clip art, or an image you find online. If you find it online, right click to save a copy.

6. Umm…It’s kind of hard to read that last slide. • You’re right. There are a couple things we can do about that. • We can change the fill of the text boxes to make them stand out more. Let’s see if that helps.

7. Ahh…much better • Hey…you have quite a few slides, but I only have one. How can I add slides? • Click on the “Insert” tab above. Select “new slide” • Cool. Thanks.

8. Hey, this slide show is boring. Can you animate it? • Sure. Let’s add some animated transitions between slides and their elements. • Right click on the part you want to animate. • Click “Custom animation” From here you can add all kinds of effects.

9. That’s cool, but I want animation from slide to slide. • Ok.Easy enough. • Click on the “slide show” tab. Select “Animation schemes.” • This is where you can apply animation to the slide transitions in your show. • If you want to get really fancy, you can try the “Custom animation” schemes. (But don’t waste too much time on this.)

10. I want to add pictures • Ok. We can do that. I think. • There are two ways to add pictures: pictures from clip art or pictures from files. • Let’s try it.