Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...

Nothing can revive a DOA PowerPoint presentation faster than animations. Applied judiciously, these motion effects can bring dynamism to your deck and make your message more powerful. Using the ...

On the Draw tab, select a pen in the Drawing Tools group and draw a text on the slide. Press the Esc key to exit the pen effect. Click on the Drawn text, then click the Animations tab. Click the ...

Follow the steps below to create a door opening animation in PowerPoint: Now place the shape to the left of the slide or any location on the slide you want the animated door to be located. Click the ...

Master presenter, author and consultant Nancy Duarte says that presenters should use "visuals to communicate the story in a clear, engaging way." Animation serves the story that you're telling with ...

The Microsoft PowerPoint software may not be marketed as an image-editing or animation program, but it comes with a variety of tools to get you up close and personal with your presentations. With ...

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

Are you hankering to give your PowerPoint presentations a visual boost? Do you want to get away from the “I did this in PowerPoint look” that you (and everyone else) get from using PowerPoint’s built ...