Animate Slide Objects: Animate Text in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, posted by Geetesh at 8:39 pm

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There’s more to text animation than just adding some movement to your selected text. By default, when you animate a text placeholder or text box, all the text contained animates at one go unless your text content is within a bulleted or numbered list. In that case, all text animates as sequenced paragraphs. Even then, the animation is sequenced to first-level paragraphs (first-level bullets), and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or text boxes animate along with the parent level.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Animate Text in PowerPoint 2013

Animate Text in PowerPoint 2010

Animate Text in PowerPoint 2007

Apple Mac

Animate Text in PowerPoint 2011

Animate Text in PowerPoint

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