Animate your charts in PowerPoint

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16 September 2001 08:30 PM
Tags: charts, european union, animate, presentation, powerpoint, slide, animation

Watch your presentation unfold into a spectacular show of pie charts flying into place, bar charts moving up the slide, and more.

Have you ever seen a PowerPoint presentation where pieces of a graph (or just about any picture, for that matter) fly into place, in response to the presenter's hidden command? It's pretty impressive: Just imagine pieces of bar charts scurrying up the slide, slices of pie charts popping into place, or annotations drawing your attention to the good, the bad, and the hopelessly banal. I'm not talking about regular bullet-point animations, the type where each individual bullet point on a slide whizzes or zigzags into view.

If you're looking to do this, go into Slide Sorter view, pick the slides you want to have bullet-point animations, and choose from the animations listed in the second drop-down box--the one marked Preset Animations. It's that easy.

For those of you looking to perform more complex animations, I'll take you through some tricks that'll make your PowerPoint creations (literally) fly!

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