Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...

Nothing can revive a DOA PowerPoint presentation faster than animations. Applied judiciously, these motion effects can bring dynamism to your deck and make your message more powerful. Using the ...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint treats Flash animations like videos that can be embedded in or linked to in a presentation. On the Insert tab in PowerPoint, click the "Video" button on the far right and ...

Follow the steps below to create a door opening animation in PowerPoint: Now place the shape to the left of the slide or any location on the slide you want the animated door to be located. Click the ...

Animations are one of PowerPoint’s most effective features. They aren’t just to make photos fly around (although that can be fun). Everything from personnel procedures to industrial processes to ...

Master presenter, author and consultant Nancy Duarte says that presenters should use "visuals to communicate the story in a clear, engaging way." Animation serves the story that you're telling with ...

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...