Motion Path Animations: Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint

Created: Wednesday, April 11, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 1:30 pm

Updated: Friday, August 13, 2021 at 1:11 pm

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While working with Motion Paths, especially after drawing a custom Motion Path to animate your slide object, you may feel that the path drawn is not very smooth. Or you may have used one of the Preset Motion Paths to animate your slide object, and now you want to make some changes. Maybe you want to extend the path or use smoother corners rather than the default pointed ones. Drawing with a mouse typically does result in paths that don’t look too good! Since Motion Paths are essentially lines drawn in PowerPoint, you can always edit them using the Edit Points option, and reorient them as required.

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

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint 2016

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint 2013

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint 2011

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint

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