Animations: Build and Sequence

Created: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, posted by Geetesh at 5:57 am

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When you animate objects in PowerPoint, the movement of objects needs to have focus and direction, and more importantly, a reason to move. This balance between focus and direction can be achieved with two similar concepts used in animation — Build and Sequence. Build is a series of animations that happen one after the other, and Sequence is the order in which they animate. Learn more in the following links:

Build and Sequence Animations in PowerPoint 2010

Build and Sequence Animations in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Art Holden Art Holden has been in the animation and presentation industry since 1996. He helped start Animation Factory in 1997 and served as general manager of ...

Advanced Shape Techniques: Drawing Arcs in PowerPoint There are so many shapes in PowerPoint, from the basic Rectangle and Oval to the fancy Pie and Smiley Face! You can use these shapes as they are, or y...

Animation Effects and Examples: Star Wars Style Credits Animation in PowerPoint If you want to create movie-credits style animations in PowerPoint, you will miss the Crawl Entrance animation option that was available in older vers...

Animations: Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint If none of the preset Motion Paths effects suit your needs, or if you cannot easily edit them to the way you want, you can easily create your own moti...

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