Inserting a “Custom Animation”

To add a “Custom animation”, click the “Custom Animation” button in the “Ribbon”, under the “Animation” tab.

This opens the “Custom Animation” panel.

Select the object in your slide, for which you want to insert an animation and click the “Add Effect” button in the pane.
This opens a drop-down menu with 4 options.

1. “Entrance”
2. “Emphasis”
3. “Exit”
4. “Motion Paths”

The first option, “Entrance”, shows the effect at the beginning of the slide.
The second option, “Emphasis” shows effects that put an emphasis on a text or object.
The third option, “Exit” shows the effect at the end of the slide.
And the fourth option, “Motion Paths”, covers the path sequence of the “Animation”.

If you move your mouse over one of these options, a submenu opens with different effects.
To insert the effect, click on it in the submenu .

When you click on “More Effects …”, a dialog opens with more effects.

To change the order of the different effects, select the effect in the pane and click the “up” or “down” scroll buttons.

To delete an effect, select the effect in the pane and click the “Remove” button.

To change an effect, select the effect in the panel and click the “Change” button. Select a different animation from the menu and associated submenus.

To close the “Custom Animation” pane, click the X in the upper right corner of the panel.

When you’ve chosen an “Animation”, you can set some options for this “Animation”.
The first box, “Start” , is used to determine how the “Animation” starts.
“OnClick” means that the “Animation” starts when you click the mouse.
“With previous” means that the “Animation” will start with the previous transition, or if there is nothing before this, at the beginning of the slide.
“After Previous” means that the “Animation” will start after the previous animation, or when there is nothing, at the end of the slide.

The second option, “Direction:” depends on the effect you’ve chosen, but whatever you chose, the options for this seem obvious to me.

The same goes for the third option, “Speed”, which also looks quite clear.

Multiple effects for 1 item

You have the ability to add multiple effects to an object.
In this example, I’m going to add a wave effect to a bulleted list.
Better still, to the last line from the enumeration list.
By default, the animation “Within fly” is already added with the “Per paragraph” option.

Select the object, which is the bulleted list in the slide, in this case, and NOT the effect in the window.
This displays the “Add Effect” button in the panel.
If you do not see this button, it’s more than likely that you did not select the object in your slide.

So click the “Add Effect” button and select the “Emphasis” option from the drop-down menu.
In the submenu select the “More Effects … ” option.
In the “Add Effect”->” Emphasis”, select the “Golf” effect and click OK.

The wave effect is added, but note that this is applied on each line in the enumeration list.
This is not really what I want, because I want it only on the last line in the enumeration list.
So I double click the arrow pointing downwards, under this effect.

This opens the list of the various lines of text which the wave effect is applied to.

Select all text lines for which I do not want this effect to be applied, in the pane and press the “Delete” key on my keyboard.

 

Click the “Preview” button in the “Animation” tab to view your construction.

TIP: If, for some reason you want bulleted list to appear in reverse, you do not need to re-order all text.
Click the downward pointing arrow next to the effect in the pane and select “Effect Options” from the drop-down menu.
In the dialog box that appears, select the “Text Animation” tab and check the “In reverse order” box.

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