PowerPoint - Creating Slide Transitions

Creating Slide Transitions

Creating a Simple Transition
Modifying Transitions
Applying One Transition to All Slides

Once you have created your presentation it can be helpful to add transitions between the slides. Transitions are an animated way to change between one slide and another.

Creating a Simple Transition

Select the slide you want to transition to.
Now click on the Slide Show>Slide Transitions menu option.
This will open the Slide Transitions Task Pane.
Choose the Type of transition you want from the list of possible transitions.
You have now created a Transition

Modifying Transitions

It can be important to adjust the speed of the transition or add sound to them as well.

You need to have the Slide Transitions Task Pane open with the slide you want to modify selected as described in Creating a Simple Transition above.
To adjust the speed of the transtion, click on the Speed option in the Modify transition portion of the Slide Transition Task Pane and choose the speed you want from Fast, Medium, or Slow.
To add a standard sound to the transition click on the Sound option in the Modify transition portion of the Slide Transition Task Pane and choose the sound you want from the options listed

Image of Modify Transition Section of Transistion Task Pane

Applying One Transition to All Slides

After creating a transition on one slide you may want the same transition throughout your entire presentation. Rather than recreate the same transition over and over again you can apply one transition to all of the slides in your presentation.
You need to have the Slide Transitions Task Pane open with the slide you want to use selected as described in Creating a Simple Transition above. Click on the Apply to All Slides button. This will make all of the slides in your presentation use the same transition settings.


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