Stop Making Boring Slides! | PRO PowerPoint Animation & Design Tutorial 🚀, by Dr. Saeed Faal on YouTube. 5 min 48 s.
- Video length
- 5 min 48 s
- Time to do it
- 20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 10
What you need
Steps
Open PowerPoint and add a blank slide so you start from an empty canvas. Set the slide size under Design, Slide Size if you need widescreen 16:9.
Insert a shape from Insert, Shapes, such as a rounded rectangle or circle. Hold Shift while dragging to keep it perfectly round or square.
Build your layout from several shapes. Overlap them, then select two or more and use Shape Format, Merge Shapes to combine, subtract or intersect them into one custom form.
Fill each shape with a gradient. Right-click the shape, choose Format Shape, then Fill, Gradient fill, and pick two colors plus a direction.
Add depth with a drop shadow. In Format Shape, open Effects, Shadow, and choose a preset. Lower the transparency and blur so the shadow stays soft.
Place your text boxes on top of the shapes. Use a large bold heading and a smaller subtitle, and keep one font family for a clean look.
Select the shape or text you want to animate and open Animations. Choose Fly In, then set the direction in Effect Options.
Open the Animation Pane, right-click the Fly In effect, choose Effect Options, and add a bounce by setting the end of the motion to smooth or bounce.
Set the timing so each element appears in order. Use Start With Previous or After Previous and adjust the duration to about 0.5 to 1 second.
Press Shift+F5 to preview the slide from the current slide. Fix any overlap or timing issues, then save the file.
Tips and common mistakes
Keep to two or three colors and one font family so the slide looks professional, not busy.
Use Merge Shapes on copies of your shapes so you can undo a bad merge with Ctrl+Z.
Keep animations short, around half a second to one second, so the slide does not feel slow.
Save your finished slide as a template or duplicate it to reuse the design across a deck.
Questions
Do I need extra add-ins for this?
No. Merge Shapes, gradients, drop shadows and Fly In are all built into PowerPoint. You only need a recent version such as Microsoft 365 or PowerPoint 2019 and later.
Why can't I find Merge Shapes?
Merge Shapes appears on the Shape Format tab only when two or more shapes are selected. Select them together, then look for the Merge Shapes button.
How do I make the bounce effect stronger?
Open Effect Options in the Animation Pane and increase the bounce setting or the duration. A slightly longer duration makes the bounce more visible.
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