Learning to Use Building Blocks - Continued

Powerpoint animations used to be fairly terrible, but they’re becoming more sophisticated. They’re such an important part of Powerpoint 2010, in fact, that there are now two tabs that are entirely devoted to animations. The first one we’re going to talk is transitions. In Office 2007 these functions were placed together into the animations tab, but now that they’re separate there is more detail provided for each function.
Transitions in Powerpoint work the same as they do in a video editor like iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker. When you open the tab you’ll find a gallery of transitions with a wide variety of options. You can also adjust the duration of the transitions; the sounds (if any) used alongside the transition, and apply the transitions to all slides at once. Transitions are selected simply by clicking on them. You don’t have to click OK, or set them up, or anything – click once, and you’re done.