Adding Transition

Once you've completed all of your slides, create a cohesive presentation by adding transition. You can move from slide to slide with interesting transitions that affect the timing, entrance and exit of your slides. A transition is an effect that is applied to some or all of the slides in a presentation.

To Make Transitions from Slide to Slide:

• Click on Slide ShowSlide Transition.`

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• In the Task Pane , click on the down-pointing arrow and select Slide Transition.

• In the Slide Transition pane, choose the effect, you want from the drop-down menu. Ex. Blinds Horizontal, Blinds Vertical, Box In and Box Out.
• Automatically preview each transition by clicking on it. (AutoPreview has to be selected).
• Click Apply to All when you have chosen an effect.
• Choose to advance from slide to slide on mouse click or automatically after the number of seconds that you select.
• To see how your transition works, preview the slide show. Learn more about this later in this lesson.

Previewing a Slide Show

If you want to get an idea of what your completed show will look like to an audience, preview it. PowerPoint allows you to view your show in slide show format.

To Preview a Slide Show:

• Click on ViewSlide Show. (F5)

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• Click on Slide ShowView Show.

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• Click on the Slide Show button to start the presentation.
• To move to the next slide, click the mouse. (Space bar or Enter).
• When the screen goes dark, click the screen to return to the PowerPoint screen.
• You can exit the slide show by pressing ESC on the keyboard at any time.

Setting Up a Slide Show

Once you have added created a presentation and previewed it, set up a show. Take the necessary steps to make sure your slides are ready for a real audience.

To Set Up a Slide Show:

• Click on Slide ShowSet Up Show.

• The Set Up Show dialog box appears.

• Choose your show type. Typically, it's presented by a speaker.
• Choose which slides you will show. For example, all or slides 3 - 12.
• Choose show options. You can leave these blank unless you're planning to run a show continuously on a kiosk or want to show it without animation etc.
• Next, decide how you plan to advance your slides.
• Click OK.

• Open the My Hobbies presentation or the Example One presentation that you worked on in the previous challenge.
• Add transition.
• Preview it in Slide Show view.
• Set up your show.