How to apply blanket animations in PowerPoint?

September 10, 2007 4:45 PM

Power Point 2007 question! I need to apply the same animation (*appear*) to every title and bullet point in my presentation, without manually going through and adding the effect one by one on each slide.

I know this was possible in older versions of Power Point but I cant figure it out in this one. The help file leads me to believe I have to individually add effects to every text block I want the *appear* animation on. I'm using this as a study tool so if I have to do this it wouldn't be as efficient. I'm basically looking for some "apply to all" option or something. It has to be there.

Thank you!

posted by Defenestrator to Technology (5 answers total)

No. Just create the text block on one slide, then cnp that block to all other slides.

Failing that, go into your Master view, and set up the anims on your title & content blocks.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 4:48 PM on September 10, 2007

Just tried it. There is an apply to all button on the animation ribbon (3/4 of the way to the right). when I create an animation and check that box, it only copies the transition animation between slides (and not the transitions within a slide).

Simplest way is what bagel boy suggested. Make one slide with the right transitions, copy paste and then edit the remaining slides.
posted by special-k at 4:59 PM on September 10, 2007

I also just tried his second suggestion. Click on the view ribbon, then slide master and make the transitions there. Then save and close out. Every new slide you insert after that will preserve your formatting.

Good advice bagel boy.
posted by special-k at 5:02 PM on September 10, 2007

master slide.
posted by rhizome at 5:19 PM on September 10, 2007

Oh fuckerbeans, I didn't even notice that it was 2007. I'm not using 2007.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:13 PM on September 10, 2007