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OpenOffice Impress User Guide
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Using slide animation effects

Slide animations are similar to transitions, but they are applied to individual elements on a single slide—a title, chart, image, or individual bullet point. Animations can make a presentation more lively and memorable. Just as with transitions, heavy use of animations can be fun, but distracting and even annoying for an audience expecting a professional presentation.

Animation effects need to be applied from Normal View so that you can select individual objects on a single slide.

    1. Applying an animation effect

  1. In Normal View, display the desired slide. Select the object you want to animate.

  2. In the Tasks pane, choose Custom Animation (Figure 156).

  3. Click Add. The Custom Animation dialog (Figure 157) appears. Choose an effect from one of the pages of this dialog, and choose the speed or duration of that effect. See the example on page 210 for some hints on how to combine multiple effects.

    • To choose the starting animation for the object, for example Fly In or Dissolve In, use the Entrance page.

    • To choose an effect such as a different font color or blinking text, use the Emphasis page.

    • To choose the effect when leaving this object, use the Exit page.

    • To choose the direct of movement of an animation, use the Motion Paths page.

  • Click OK to save the effect and return to the Custom Animation page on the Task pane. Here you can choose how to start the animation, change the speed, and some additional properties of the selected effect.

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        1. Starting an animation effect

    You have three choices for starting an animation effect:

    On click—the animation stops at this effect until the next mouse click.

    With previous—the animation runs at the same time as the previous animation.

    After previous—the animation runs as soon as the previous animation ends.

      1. Choosing additional properties of an animation effect

    Many animations have properties that you can set or change. For example, if you chose the Change Font Color effect on the Emphasis page, you can specify the font color. If you chose Fly In on the Entrance page, you can specify the direction from which the object flies in.

    The label on the properties box changes depending on the choices available for each effect. For example, a Fly In effect has a box labelled Direction and a Change Font Color effect has a box labelled Font color.

      1. Example: Using multiple animation effects

    To illustrate how you can set up multiple effects, let’s look at a common animation: list items fly in one at a time from the bottom of the slide, and as each new item appears, the previous items change to a different color. Here is how to create these effects.

    Step 1. Apply the “fly in” effect to individual list items.

    1. Display the Custom Animation page of the Task pane.

    2. Create a slide with several items in a bullet list. Our example slide (Figure 158) has four.

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  • Select all four items. Click Add on the Custom Animation pane.

  • On the Entrance page of the Custom Animation dialog (Figure 159), select Fly In, optionally change the Speed to Medium, and click OK.

  • The four effects you have just set up are listed in the animations list on the Custom Animation page, as shown in Figure 160.

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    Step 2. Apply the “change font color” effect to some list items.

    Now we want to set each of the first three list items to change color when the following item appears on the slide. To do this:

    1. Select the first three items on the slide (not the animations list) and click Add in the Custom Animation pane.This time we go to the Emphasis page of the Custom Animation dialog and choose Change Font Color, as shown in Figure 161. Click OK to save this effect.

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  • Notice that the three new animations are listed at the bottom of the animations list, and the “type of effect” icon for these three effects (in the second column) is different from the icon for the first four effects (see Figure 162).

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  • You could, if you wish, select any of the last three items and choose a different color from the Font color list on the Custom Animation pane.

  • Use the Change order: up-arrow button to move each of the last three items up the list to just under the other item with the same name. The animation list will now look like Figure 163.

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    Step 3. Change the timing for some list items from With previous to On click

    Notice that all of the items on the animations list (except for the two “Point one” items) are set to start at the same time as the previous item. However, we want the second “Point two” animation and the second “Point three” animation to also occur On click.

    1. Select these items, and then choose On click from the Start list. The animation list now looks like Figure 164.

    2. Save the file.

    3. Test this set of animations by clicking the Slide Show button.

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    1. Advanced animation effects

    Click the Effect Options button [...] next to the properties drop-down list to display the Effect Options dialog.

    Note

    What you see on the Effect Options dialog depends on the selected animation object. For example, the dialog has three pages for text objects but only two pages for picture objects (the Text Animation page does not appear). The Settings section on the Effect page also varies. Figure 165 shows the Effect page for a Direction effect, and Figure 166 shows the Settings section for a Font Color effect. For picture objects, the Text animation box on the Effect page is unavailable.

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    On the Effect page of the Effect Options dialog (Figure 165) you can choose a sound to play, whether to dim or hide the object after animation, and (in the case of text objects) whether to animate the text all at once or word-by-word or letter-by-letter.

    On the Text Animation page of the Effect Options dialog (Figure 167), you can group text in other ways: as one object, all paragraphs at once, or by first-level paragraphs (that is, one list item together with its sub-items, if any).

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    The choices on the Timing page of the Effect Options dialog, shown in Figure 168, should be self-explanatory.

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      1. Removing animation effects

    1. On the Custom Animation page of the Task pane, select the desired object.

    2. Click the Remove button.

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