So, you told your friends you could animate the Death Star. Or assured your boss that, yes, of course you could make fake ants crawl over his PowerPoint slide, if he really wants it. But you’ve just realised your PowerPoint animation expertise doesn’t extend that far! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
We’ve gathered below all our best tips and tricks for PowerPoint animation: find out how to use animation to make your corporate presentations look slick and professional, or learn how to make something really cool that will have your colleagues standing up in spontaneous applause.
Have a browse, find what you need, or if you don’t, give us a shout! We have many PowerPoint ninjas who would be delighted to help.
You know when you’ve got a conference call and you’re first on, and there’s that blissful silence when you can contemplate anything in the world? What do you do? I found myself in that situation the other day, and I ended up being a bit like Darth Vader…
As a designer that works in the field of presentation, I am constantly on the lookout for inspiration and new ways of thinking to further advance my presentation skills. Inspiration is all around, one of my favourite forms of ‘presentation’ are movies; specifically the title credits of a movie.
Triggers allow you to initiate a sequence of animations by clicking on a specific object rather than a simple mouse click. This can be helpful for de-cluttering a slide or making a presentation more interactive however getting triggers to work practically can be a bit tricky. Let's take a look.
It's one of life's great mysteries, baffling great minds for generations, just how do you create a countdown timer in PowerPoint? Here at BrightCarbon we couldn't take no for an answer and we've unearthed the solution! Read on and become part of a very exclusive group of people...
"PowerPoint found an error that it can't correct. You should save presentations, quit, and then restart PowerPoint." Except, well, you can’t save, because that’s when the error appears. And nobody likes to lose work...
We share our practical tips, technology approach, and best practices for adding voice to PowerPoint - either by recording audio directly in PowerPoint or importing audio and setting timings.
Surprisingly enough, it’s not that easy to get a bar chart to grow or shrink in PowerPoint. There are a few ways around it, but each of them has strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully one of them will work for your slide – and might just be the missing trick you've been searching for.
We've created a sequence of photo highlights – the kind of thing that you see at birthdays and weddings, along with more corporate events. Normally such things are pretty mundane, but it is pretty easy to create dynamic movie sequences to make the whole thing come alive, using a few simple PowerPoint tricks.
What shortcuts and words of wisdom can we impart to you to make your presentations look different (and better!) than everyone else’s? The short answer is simple – don’t design your slides like everyone else. Here are some things you can leave off that will transform both your approach to presentations and your presentations themselves in no time.
Do you ever feel like you spend your life in PowerPoint - animating, drawing, arranging, typing. Do you wish you could do it faster, that you could increase your PowerPoint productivity with a useful list of shortcuts and time hacks? Readers. Look no further.
Ever wanted to get more out of your PowerPoint animation? Here's a trick you can use to make PowerPoint animations more versatile. I used it to recreate the elegant motion of pendulums in a Harvard Sciences Lecture Demonstration.
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