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Add animation to objects and text

Add animation to objects and text

- [Instructor] Animation is a great way to add a storytelling and dramatic effect to your slides. Remember this slide? I've added a quote to it. If this is in Kiosk mode, that is, being run automatically while everybody's looking at it, I think having this appear slowly would be a great way to display the slide, and we can do that through animation. I'll start by selecting my text and heading to the animations tab. The first thing I need to decide is how this is going to appear, and I have all of these choices. If I click on them, I can get a preview of what it's going to look like. In fact, I can click this down triangle, and I will get a lot more choices. I'll select Fade, and once I've chosen this animation, I can see that there's an animation on it because I can see the number one next to this slide. I can also see this star icon over here to the left of the slide preview. Let's suppose I wanted this…

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