Making Presentations

To turn a boring PowerPoint presentation into an interesting one, you can add moving graphics and pictures. For successful animation presentations, you don't need to be an expert in PowerPoint.

Animations improve the presentations and also help capture the attention of the listeners. Audience can retain around fifty five percent more information if they are shown visuals. All you need are some expert ideas that can help you design an animation presentation.

PowerPoint presentations with regular slides are known to be flat and monotonous. This can be overcome with the use of animations or builds. All you need to do is to use the custom animation feature. This is already present in the PowerPoint option.

Under this icon, there are a number of animation types available. Some of the most popular types are Box Out, Wipe and Appear.

The Fade feature is, by far, the most professional animation feature. However, the only problem with this feature is that it is available in the 2002 version of PowerPoint. It will not be able to build properly if you have an older version of PowerPoint. Therefore, to use this feature more effectively and efficiently, you must have the latest version of PowerPoint.

You might face other compatibility problems, while using custom animations in your PowerPoint, if you have saved the file as html for web publishing. This way the browser would not display the animation effects. If you save the file as a PDF, the animations would not be kept.

You may also face problems, if the computer you use during the presentation, has hardware related issues. For example, it may not have monitor refresh rate settings or a graphic card.

Also, some speakers feel uncomfortable with the use of animations in their presentations. This is because they feel that they might get out of synchronization. This is because the animations may be too fast or too slow as compared to their speech. This problem can be easily solved, if you select the build automatically feature, rather than the feature that builds on mouse click.

However, these problems can be overcome. There are many tools that can be used by you to create the most innovative animation presentation.

One of the most popular tools is the Gradient tool. It is an extremely powerful tool, which can be used by you to make your designs interesting and professional. It forms a gradient flow and uses the primary and secondary colors from the color box. It is present in the toolbar or can be used by pressing 'G' on your keyboard anytime during your design.

Following these points, you can make interesting animation presentations. The animation will make your presentation more powerful and enjoyable for you as well as your audience.