How to animate slides in powerpoint?

Apply an animation. Select the object or text on the slide that you want to animate. On the Animations tab of the ribbon, click Add Animation, and pick an animation effect. Add an animation effect in PowerPoint. Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions. read more

To add sound to animated text or an object, do the following: On the Animations tab, in the Advanced Animation group, click Animation Pane. The Animation Pane opens on the side of the workspace pane, showing the order, type, and duration of animation effects applied to text or objects on a slide. read more

And the Custom Animation task pane looks something like this. Do the following: In the Custom Animation task pane, in the Custom Animation list, click the arrow to the right of the animation effect applied to the first bullet of text, and then click Effect Options. read more

This feature is only available on PowerPoint 2002. Perhaps the biggest problem on using animation is that the windows default is to animate on mouse click. Speakers can often get out of track with where they are in the sequence. The solution to this it to change Start Animation to Automatically 1 second after the previous event. Do this for every item and your slide will automatically build as you speak. read more