Transitions and Animations

Motion between and within slides is genuinely useful in small doses, and distracting in large ones.

Transitions tab — applies to how one slide changes to the next. One simple transition applied to every slide reads as more professional than a different flashy one on each slide.

Animations tab — makes one object appear, move, or disappear on its own within a slide. Useful for revealing a list of points one at a time instead of all at once.

The Animation Pane (Animations tab → Animation Pane) lists every animation on a slide in the order it plays, numbered — drag an item to reorder it. A trigger makes an animation wait for a click on a specific object instead of playing automatically in sequence.