Word 2011 element. Behavior in compatibility mode. SmartArt graphics. Converted to images and cannot be edited. Diagrams and charts. Converted to images and cannot be edited. Shapes and text boxes. Converted to effects that are available in the.doc file format. For documents in compatibility mode, presented as images that cannot be. Published on Jul 19, 2011 Many faculty use what they refer to as 'voice over power point'. The following tutorial will show how to add audio to a slide in Microsoft Power Point.
Transition effects show a visual change when you move from one slide to another. Before you add any transition effect,your slides advance rather abruptly -- adding a transition effect like Fade, Wipe, or any of the other effects makes theflow between slides smoother to the eye and easier to the slide content. Although the purpose of transitions is to removethe abruptness of moving from one slide to another, you can actually do a slide transition without any effect -- in thiscase you will only add the transition so that you can add a transition time so that slides advance at determined timings.Finally, you can also add transition sounds. Whatever transition effect you may add, remember these basic concepts:
Transition effects happen when the slide shows up rather than when they are gone.
Transitionduration (speed) influences how long it takes to move from one slide to another.
Transitiontimings indicate how long the slide shows on screen -- most slides that are presented during sessions or conferencesdo not have any fixed transition timings since speakers don’t know exactly how long they will end up speaking while aparticular slide is shown. In this case, a mere mouse click takes them to the next slide.
Transitions canhave sound, and this is one of those PowerPoint features that you should never use unless you have a compelling reasonto do so!
Follow these steps to add a slide transition to one or more slides:
Open your PowerPoint presentation, and navigate to the slide to which you want to add a transition. If you want to add asimilar transition effect to more than one slide, access PowerPoint's Slide Sorter view, and select therequired slide(s), as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Slides selected within the Slide Sorter view
Access the Transitions tab of the Ribbon, and locate the Transition to This Slide group. In this group, hover the cursor over the slidetransition thumbnail previews to bring up a down-arrow button (More button) as shown in Figure 2(highlighted in red). Figure 2: More button within the Transition to This Slide group
Click this down-arrow button to open the Slide Transitions drop-down gallery, as shown inFigure 3 below. You will see that the transitions are divided into three categories: Subtle,Exciting, and Dynamic Content. We suggest you to select a transition effect from theSubtle category to start with -- we chose the Split effect (refer to Figure 3again). Figure 3: Slide Transitions drop-down gallery
Select and click any of the transition effect to see preview of the transition on the active slide (this previewlooks better in the Normal view rather thanSlide Sorter view).
If you want to add the same transition effect to all slides in your presentation (as opposed to just the active orselected slides), then click the All Slides button located within the Apply To group ofTransitions tab as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4. Figure 4: All Slides button within the Transitions tab
Save your presentation often.
We explore other Transition options such asTransitionDuration (speed), Transition Timings, and Transitions Sound in other tutorials of this series.