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 ...

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 ...

Animations are one of PowerPoint’s most effective features. They aren’t just to make photos fly around (although that can be fun). Everything from personnel procedures to industrial processes to ...

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 ...

The Animation pane in PowerPoint is a task pane that appears to the right of the slide and displays important information pertaining to the animations you have added to your slides. If you have not ...

If your slide contains bulleted lists you can easily convert them (including the text) to a SmartArt graphic. This article will show you how. In the slide, click the placeholder containing the text ...