Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Creating Custom Animations

The Custom Animation dialog box includes more advanced animation options such as the capability to set order and timings. You also use this dialog box to set animation effects for charts and media clips.

Note

Using custom animation, you can perform many of the same animation tasks as you can with preset animation. Custom animation offers more advanced functionality, however.

Choose Slide Show, Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation dialog box, shown in Figure 14.4.

As you set animation effects in this dialog box, you can use the Preview button to get an idea of what your animation will look like before saving these changes. PowerPoint displays the animations in the preview box to the left of the Preview button. ...