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Change The Order Of Your Custom Animations In PowerPoint

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
by Diana Huggins

Sometimes, in order to get your ideas across on a slide, you need objects in a slide to build. You may need one object appear first then on a mouse click, have another object appear. You can accomplish this by creating custom animations.

After you have setup your custom animations within your slide, you may decide that the effects appear in the wrong order. In some cases, if custom animations are not in the correct order, the idea behind the slide can be lost and leave the audience confused.

If this is the case, you can easily change the order of your animations, as is described below.

Select the appropriate slide in your presentation.
From the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation. The Custom Animation pane will appear on the right.
Select one of the effects from the list of effects you currently have configured.
Use the Reorder buttons to change the order that the selected effect will appear.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the effects are in the order that you want them to appear during the presentation.
Click the Preview button at any time to run the effects.