5 Simple Steps to Add Transitions to PowerPoints

Step 1 - Create Powerpoint

Before you can add transitions to your PowerPoint Slide show, you must first create your slides. For help on creating slides within Microsoft PowerPoint visit http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857971033.aspx

Step 2 - Decide on transitions

There are many options of transitions between slides and/or between text and images on invidual slides. You can preview these options when you are selecting transitions for individual slides. Depending on what your presentation is about or who you are presenting to you may want to have all slides with the same transitions or varying transitions for each slide. These are decisions that you can make as you are selecting transitions. You can also go back and make alterations to your transitions after viewing the presentation.

Step 3 - Select transitions for slides

You can add customized transitions to your slide show that will make it come alive and become appealing to your audience. Follow these steps when adding Slide Transitions.

1. In slide or slide sorter view, select the slide or slides you want to add a transition to.
2. On the Slide Show menu at the top of the screen, click Slide Transition

3. In the Effect box, click the transition you want, and then select any other options you want
4. To apply the transition to the selected slide, click Apply.
5. To apply the transition to all the slides, click Apply to All.
6. Repeat the process for each slide you want to add a transition to.
7. To view the transitions, on the Slide Show menu, click Animation Preview.

Step 4 - Save transition changes

After you have selected all of you slide transitions be sure to save your presentation again. This can be done by any of the following ways:

1. Go to File then select Save or Save As.
2. Click on the disk icon to save your work.

Step 5 - Preview slide show

You can view your slide show by any of the following ways:

1. Click Slide Show at the lower left of the PowerPoint window.
2. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.
3. On the View menu, click Slide Show.
4. Press F5 on the keyboard

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