3-day Virtual Seminar

PowerPoint: Animating Text, Images and Charts

Overview

Bring your presentations to life with motion that matters. In this hands-on, 60-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to animate text, images, and charts in Microsoft PowerPoint to enhance your storytelling and engage your audience. From animating bullet points to creating vibrant visuals with motion paths and a variety of ways to activate the animation sequences, you'll discover how to apply the right effects at the right time to support your message.

Why you should Attend

If you've ever sat through a dull or overly flashy presentation, you know how critical balance and clarity are in animation. This session is perfect for anyone who wants to add polish and professionalism to their PowerPoint slides. Whether you’re creating training materials, delivering business proposals, or speaking at events, you’ll leave with practical skills and time-saving techniques that will immediately improve how your presentations look and feel.

Areas Covered in the Session

• Using Transitions Between Slides
  • Difference between transitions and animations 
  • Choosing appropriate transitions
  • Setting timing and duration
  • Applying a transition to one slide vs. all slides
• Animating Text
  • Applying entrance effects
  • Controlling direction, speed, and order
  • Adding emphasis and exit animations
  • Using the Animation Pane 
• Animating Images and Graphics
  • Applying entrance and motion path effects to images
  • Controlling sequence and animation order
• Animating Charts and Graphs
  • Chart animation options (By Series, Category, Element)
  • Entrance effects for charts
  • Emphasizing a particular bar or slice
• Customizing Animation Timings and Actions
  • Setting durations and delays
  • Using Start with Previous / After Previous
  • Adding ways to initiate animation
    

Who Will Benefit

This class is ideal for anyone looking to take their PowerPoint skills to the next level. Whether you're in a training position, have a need to communicate an action plan, or need to organize a meeting, mastering these animation tools make the presentation more memorable.

• Training Specialists and Instructional Designers
• Marketing Managers and Coordinators
• Sales Professionals and Account Executives
• Corporate Communications Specialists
• Executive Assistants and Administrative Professionals
• Project Managers and Team Leads
• Human Resources Professionals
• Business Analysts and Consultants
• Educators and Professors
• Public Speakers and Workshop Facilitators
• Nonprofit Program Coordinators
• Event Planners and Meeting Organizers