Using Text Entrance Effects

Build

Building is a term indicating how each line of the text, on a slide, will enter the screen.  The lines, words, letters, pictures and charts can move in or appear from almost any direction.  To Build the text on each slide, follow these directions.

Go back to Normal View.  You can do this in Slide Sorter View by double clicking-on the first slide or by Clicking on the Normal View button on the lower left corner of the screen.  When the Normal View screen appears, click-on the first line of text.  The “box” you saw, when you first typed text in this box, will appear. This indicates that the box is “active.”  It will appear as below.

 Now, right click in the box.

 When you right-click, the following menu will appear. Click-on Custom Animation…

The following screen will appear in the right side area of your screen (very similar to the one we used for Slide 9).  When this screen appears, first click-on Add Effect, then click-on Entrance, and finally click-on More Effects (because we want ALL of the effects).

The Add Entrance Effect menu screen will now appear (like the one on the left). 

Move your cursor over the blue Add Entrance Effect “bar” at the top of the menu screen.  Click and hold down the left mouse button and drag the screen to the right of your screen so that you can see the text in the Title text box.  After you have moved this box raise your finger from the left mouse button.

Now, choose one of the effects by clicking-on it.  You will now be able to see the effect work in the text box.  You may hear a Chime sound that is “part” of the Slide Transition.  We’ll show you how to put in sounds for your text in a little while.

Try a lot of different effects.  Notice that there is an elevator bar on the right side of this menu.  As you move down the Add Entrance Effects menu screen you will notice that there are “groups” of effects – Basic, Subtle, Moderate, and Exciting.  Try a “bunch” of these to see how they work.  When you have an effect you like, click-on the OK button at the bottom of the menu screen.

Now click-on the lower text box and repeat the steps we outlined on the last page.

Notice – on the right side of the screen - under Custom Animation – that the Titles (on which we added effects) are shown as a part of this screen (just like when we created our flying bee on Slide 9). 

Also notice that under our second title there is a small, down pointing arrow.  If you click-on this arrow it will show you each line of text that you animated in the lower sub-title box.

Now we’ll enhance our text some more.

If you move your cursor over the first title and click-on the small triangle on the right side, you will see a menu screen appear that will let us enhance our title (just like we did in Slide 9).  Choose (click-on) Effect Options and the menu screen below will appear.

This screen is similar to the one in Slide 9, but a little different.  Notice that we chose Float for our text effect and then chose Cash Register for our sound. 

We’ll cover Dimming and All at once when we animate text in Slide 2.

Go ahead and experiment with Entrance Effects and Sounds for your first Slide. 

Entrance Effects and Sounds for Slide 2

The question we receive the most is:  “How do you get the text to enter one letter at a time and have it sound like a typewriter is typing the text?”

We’ll now show you how to do this.

 You should be on Slide 1 in the Normal View screen.  We need to move to Slide 2.  Look at left portion of the Normal View screen.  You will see that this area looks like the image to the right.  Click-on Slide 2 in this area.  A blue line will go around the slide and you will see Slide 2 in the center portion of your screen.

You will see a bulleted list of the ingredients for a PBJ.  Move your cursor anywhere over the list of ingredients and click the RIGHT mouse button (to bring up a menu).  Move down the menu and select Custom Animation.

You will see the Custom Animation area appear again on the right (as you did in Slide 1). 

Select Add Effect, then Entrance and then More Effects (as you did in Slide 1).

This may not seem like much, but the choice of the Entrance Effect is very important here.  Notice, in the image to the right, that we chose Appear.  We need the text to enter, letter-by-letter, very quickly.  Appear will take care of this.  Other choices may “look funny” when the animation is “running.”  When you become more accomplished with PowerPoint – try all kinds of effects.  Click-on OK at the bottom of this menu screen when you have selected Appear.

Now look further down the Custom Animation area on the right side of the screen until you see an area that looks like the image on the left.  Click-on the small triangle and then select Effect Options.

When you click-on Effect Options an Appear menu screen similar to the one on the right will materialize.  We’ve gone ahead and entered the effects to make our text look and sound like an “old timey” typewriter is typing it.

We clicked-on the down triangles to the right of each feature and did the following:

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