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 fly in 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 Clicking on the Normal View button on the lower left 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:

Notice a number of "things" in this menu screen. In the upper right, you see a small picture of the "text area" you clicked-on (see arrow). This confirms your "click." In the lower half of the screen there is a "tab box." Notice that it "defaults" to an Effects "tab". In a manner similar to Slide Transitions, text, graphics, and pictures can also transition. Click-on the small triangle to the right of No Effect (see arrows). You will see effects similar to those in Slide Transition. Select an effect and click-on one. You will not see the effect immediately, as you did in the Slide Transition screen. Notice, however, as soon as you select an effect, several other areas of this menu screen become "active." See the image below.

First notice to the right an area labeled "Introduce text." Click-on the small triangle.

Next we’ll cover sound. It is neat to combine certain sounds with certain text introductions. For example, the By Letter introduction combined with the Typewriter sound, looks and sounds like text being typed in one letter at a time.

 

Now notice the Sound area on the left. Click-on the small triangle and select a sound from the list.

When you are good with these sounds you can try the sounds you saw in ClipArt earlier.

You can view these build effects by clicking on the Preview button (in the upper right corner of the Custom Animation Menu Screen – see arrow and label above). You can click the Preview button any time you desire - as you are creating text, picture or other animations. You will notice in the upper left corner of the Custom Animation Menu box an Animation Order box. Each time you click-on OK, as you complete an animation, the "thing" you animate will be added to the list, in the order in which you added it to the slide. If you desire to change the order of your animated "things," you can click-on the thing you desire to move up or down and then, by clicking-on the arrows to the right, you can move the text or object up or down. When you have completed the first slide, move to each successive slide, click-on the various text boxes or objects, and repeat the process.

One additional "item" in the Custom Animation menu screen. When you click-on a text area that is a bulleted list you will see an additional effect – Introduce text. The Grouped by "1^st" level paragraph indicates whether one line, or multiple lines, will enter. Here is another area where it is fun to experiment.