Teach Yourself VISUALLY™: Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007

10.2. Apply an Animation

You can use the Animations tab on the Ribbon to apply an animation to any selected slide object. If you select a complex object such as a SmartArt diagram or a bulleted list, you can even apply the animation to each of its individual parts and control how the parts appear. The basic animations fade, wipe, or fly in objects.

Apply an Animation

1 Select the object to animate.

You can select any kind of object: a placeholder, text box, picture, or WordArt.

You can +click to select multiple objects and apply the animation ...