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Step 1 - What is an Animation Scheme ?

An animation scheme is just a predefined slide transition and a collection of animation effects applied to slide objects.

Once of the most basic type of animation schemes is the "Appear".

This just defines the paragraphs of text to appear one at a time

Step 2 - Animation Schemes Task Pane

The pane is actually called the Slide Design - Animation Schemes" task pane

More complex animation schemes cause text to fly in and spin around etc.

The animation schemes are divided into 5 categories:

Recently Used

No Animation

Subtle

Moderate

Exciting

For a full list of all the animation schemes please refer to the list page >>>

Step 3 - Applying an Animation Scheme to a Slide

Move to the slide you want to apply the animation to.

Clicking an animation scheme to see the preview will actually assign that transition to the slide.

Make sure you select "No animation" after you have been previewing the animations.

The apply to all slides will apply to the whole presentation.

Step 5 - Things to Remember

To really see how the animation schemes work you should experiment with the preview provided.