How to Change or Remove Animations From PowerPoint Slides
Use them sparingly for better effect
Want to jazz up your PowerPoint slides to make them more engaging? An obvious step to take is to add animations to your slides. Animations can make your PowerPoint slides more dynamic and engaging, but be warned—they can also be distracting and annoying if you don’t use them correctly.
If you want to change or remove animations from your PowerPoint slides, you have a few options. To change or remove animations from PowerPoint slides, follow the steps below.
How to Change an Animation Effect in PowerPoint
If you want to change the type of animation effect applied to an object on your slide, such as text, images, orshapes, you can do so by following these steps.
How to Remove an Animation Effect in PowerPoint
Decided to remove an animation entirely? You can easily do this from theAnimationstab on the ribbon bar by following these steps.
How to Hide or Remove All Animations From a Slide or Presentation in PowerPoint
Decided to ditch animations from your PowerPoint slide entirely? If they aren’t suited to your audience, you can hide or remove all of the animations at once.
If you only want to hide the animations as you play your presentation, but leave them in place, you can do this by pressing theSlide Showtab on the ribbon.
With this option enabled, animations won’t appear while you’re actively presenting your presentation. You’ll need to repeat these steps and remove the checkbox next toShow without animationto restore them afterward.
There isn’t an option to click and remove all of your animations in PowerPoint. Instead, you’ll need to do it manually by following these steps.
Tips for Using Animations in PowerPoint Effectively
Animations aren’t suited for every presentation. However, depending on your audience, you can make your PowerPoint presentations more fun with the right amount (and type) of animations.
That said, it’s important to get the balance right, as PowerPoint animations can be distracting or unprofessional if you use them incorrectly. Here are some tips for using animations in PowerPoint effectively.
This isn’t an exhaustive list—you’ll need to use your best judgement to identify the right use of animations in your PowerPoint slides. However, if you use them correctly, animations in PowerPoint can help you to effectively create interesting (yet professional) presentations.
Creating Powerful PowerPoint Presentations
Don’t be scared to use PowerPoint animations on your slides, but use them sparingly, and use them effectively. Using the steps above, you can quickly change or remove animations from PowerPoint slides that don’t suit your content or audience.
Want to make your slides easier to understand? You can alwaysadd narration to your PowerPoint presentationto make it easier to distribute. If you want to reduce the text you’re using, you can alsoembed videos into your presentationto help switch to other content formats without losing the information you’re looking to share.
Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. Since leaving the classroom, Ben has taken his teaching experience and applied it to writing tech how-to guides and tutorials, specialising in Linux, Windows, and Android. He has a degree in History and a postgraduate qualification in Computing.Read Ben’s Full Bio
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