Microsoft Office for iPad: An Essential Guide to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive

Chapter 16. Adding Transitions and Presenting

One of the final things you want to add to your presentation are the transitions between slides. They allow you to add motion and visual appeal to your slideshow. Slide transitions are animated effects that occur when you switch from one slide to another. Slide animations are animations that occur within the body of a slide. In this book, we don’t have to worry much about slide animations, because although PowerPoint for iPad can play slide animations that were created on PowerPoint for Windows or Mac, PowerPoint for iPad doesn’t have the ability to add, remove, or change slide animations. On the other hand, PowerPoint for iPad has no problems working with slide transitions, and we’ll be covering ...