PowerPoint 2010 Slide Transitions

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 PowerPoint 2010 31 comments

powerpoint-2010-slide-transitions This PowerPoint tutorial focuses on the way PowerPoint 2010 allows presenters to transition between slides during presentations. Featuring new, more graphically exciting transition effects, PowerPoint 2010 offers presenters a number of interesting ways to cleverly transition between slides, including full slide transitions and content only transitions.

This PowerPoint 2010 Slide Transitions tutorial demonstrates the new ways presenters can transition between slides.

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31 Comments to PowerPoint 2010 Slide Transitions

#1

Oliver Woollard

9:32 pm, May 12th, 2010

Thank you for this video – it has been really useful. I have since downloaded PowerPoint 2010 Beta. I don’t appear to be able to apply transitions to slide content like you have. Is there anything obvious i’m not doing? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
#2

Jessica Pyne

3:18 pm, May 13th, 2010

Thank you, Oliver – we’re glad that you’ve found it useful! Could you detail the problem you are having with the transitions? For example, have you seen an error message? If you could provide us with as much technical detail as possible, I’ll ask one of our designers to look into it for you.
#3

Oliver Woollard

11:58 am, May 15th, 2010

Thank you for your reply. I’m not getting any error messages – it’s not really an error that i’m experiencing, rather that i have no idea how to apply slide transitions to the slide content only. You appear to have done this in your demo and i’ve seen examples of other slideshows where the background image does not change but the ‘pan’ transition has been applied to the text and images only.
Thanks again for your help.
#4

Jessica Pyne

11:47 am, May 17th, 2010

Hi, Oliver. I’ve spoken to a couple of members of our design team, and we think we’ve identified the issue. To achieve the effect you are after, only the transitions included in the ‘dynamic content’ set of transitions will animate the slide content and not the background. It is also worth noting that the slide transition applies to how the slide transitions in, rather than how it transitions out. The ‘pan’ transition is a good example of this.

I hope this has helped. Please let us know if you are still encountering any problems!
#5

jayant kaushik

4:32 pm, May 20th, 2010

i’ve a problem
i applied transition effect on every slide n den i opened d slide show
n de n :-(
the slides were not changing on there own, rather i have to press d next button,
plzzz provide a solution as soon as possible
#6

Richard Goring

2:01 pm, May 21st, 2010

Hi Jayant,
You need to use a function on the far right hand side of the Transition ribbon tab, within the ‘Timing’ section. By default, each slide needs a click to transition, but you can make the slide transition automatically by deselecting the ‘On Mouse Click’ check box on the top right hand corner of the ‘Timing’ section. This will mean that the slide transitions as soon as the animation on the slide has finished. You can also set a delay time, so that the slide transitions after X number of seconds. I hope that this helps and have fun with your presentation.
#7

zerojh

9:07 am, May 30th, 2010

I got my own copy of office 2010 but i noticed that the transitions are not complete, i don’t have those exciting ones my friends have, but i can only see the subtle ones. What should I do? I can’t find any transitions on the internet for download.
#8

James

11:29 pm, June 7th, 2010

I’m with zerojh on this one, i havent got all the transitions, just a select few of the more simple ones, i downloaded office pro beta
#9

Jessica Pyne

10:34 am, June 10th, 2010

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you both, James and Zerojh – I’ve discussed this with my colleague, and there are two potential reasons that you are unable to see the ‘exciting’ and ‘dynamic content’ transitions.

The first is that you are not scrolling down fully to see the exciting transitions at the bottom. Only the subtle ones are available on the ribbon without having to open a menu – click ‘more’ in the bottom right of the transitions box to see what else is available.

The second is that you may have downloaded an early version of the Beta software, which did not contain all the new features of PowerPoint 2010. Certain new features were rolled out during development. The solution to this would be to reinstall the software, which should have the new features added.

Hope this helps!
#10

Robert Salmon

4:03 pm, June 14th, 2010

I have the full version of Office Proffesional Plus 2010 and have created a presentation using the new slide transtions, namely the new honeycomb one. However as I will be presenting it in office 2007 the animation doesn’t work.

Is there a way to embed the animation that office 2007 will be able to run?
#11

Frank

4:04 am, June 16th, 2010

i am creating a slideshow with timed slides and transitions. Can anyone tell me if the transition time is added to the time each slide is shown or is included in that time? In other words, if the transition duration is set to 0.5 seconds and the slide is set to advance automatically in 2 seconds, does that mean there is actually 3 seconds between slides?
Thanks.
#12

Richard Goring

7:55 am, June 16th, 2010

Hi Robert,

Unforetunately, there isn’t a way to embed transitions native to PowerPoint 2010 into your file so that they play in previous versions of PowerPoint. They will usually change to the closest standard transition, often a simple fade.

However, you can download the latest version of Microsoft’s PowerPoint Viewer, which does support PowerPoint 2010 transitions. You would have to install the new PowerPoint 2010 Viewer on whatever machine you are presenting on, but it takes only a few seconds and is simple to do. You can download the latest version of the PowerPoint Viewer from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823 or search for PowerPoint 2010 Viewer on the Microsoft website. This will then allow you to run PowerPoint 2010 transitions on any computer, when playing the slide show through the Viewer software.
#13

Richard Goring

8:00 am, June 16th, 2010

Hi Frank,

The time taken for the slide transition is added to the time indicated in the ‘transition after’ timing section. So, if you set a slide to transition after 2 seconds and have a ‘fast’ speed transition to the next slide, taking 0.5 seconds, then the slide will transition after 2.5 seconds (2 + 0.5). It may also be worth noting that the slide will not transition until all animation effects have played through, so if you have 3 seconds worth of animation and set the slide to transition after 2 seconds, it will only transition once all the animation is complete, meaning the total slide time would be 3.5 seconds (3 + 0.5).
#14

Troy Geri

1:53 pm, July 8th, 2010

Hi
I have just installed the full version of Office Proffesional Plus 2010 Pro and I can only see some subtle transitions and when I click more on the bottom right there are only four transitions under excliting, CLock, Blinds, Checkerboard & Dissolve?
#15

Jessica Pyne

1:42 pm, July 12th, 2010

Thanks for the comment, Troy. I am unsure why you might not see all transitions, and it seems you are not the first to have this issue. I have contacted Microsoft with your query, and will let you know once we receive a response.
#16

Nik

7:03 pm, July 25th, 2010

Hello, I’m making a powerpoint with music but I’m having an issue with transitioning my slides. When I click the transition I want, the transition does not transition the entires slide, just the music symbol in my slide. What am I doing wrong?
#17

Richard Goring

9:22 am, July 27th, 2010

Hi Nik,
I’ve not come across your problem before, but if you check out this PowerPoint audio tutorial – it should give you some help. Whilst this focuses on inserting sound into PowerPoint 2007, 90% of all the functions are the same. They key points to note are that the only animation on the sound file itself are ‘play’ and possibly ‘pause’ or ‘stop’ and that in the Playback tab on the ribbon, you have selected ‘Play across slides’ instead of ‘Automatically’ and selected ‘Hide During Show’, both in the Audio options section. These should mean that the audio plays across multiple slides, without seeing the icon.
#18

Ali Alhaddar

3:44 pm, July 31st, 2010

“Animations play when I go back to a slide” (Edited)

When you return to a slide that’s already played, PowerPoint remembers that you’ve been there, done that, so it shows you the slide as it was in its final state before you moved along to another slide in the presentation(it could be any slide). It’s a nice feature really, but I can NOT find it in the 2010 its already there in the 2007.

Any ideas?
#19

John Bevan

12:26 pm, August 5th, 2010

Hi Ali. So let’s imagine you’re in Slideshow mode, and you have a jigsaw puzzle on slide 5 that builds up over a series of clicks. If you continue beyond it and through the presentation, then hit 5 – Enter during the show, it will take you back to the final ‘image’ of slide 5, showing the jigsaw in its final build state.
If, however, instead of navigating directly to 5, you hit Home and went back to the start, or navigated to any slide before 5, your jigsaw on slide 5 would build from the start when you got to it.
Finally, if you got halfway through building your jigsaw, and then skipped to slide 9, then skipped back to slide 5, the jigsaw would appear as you left it, half finished.
Is that what you mean? As far as I can see this behaviour has been kept in 2010.
#20

Jessica Pyne

12:50 pm, August 13th, 2010

Troy – I’ve had an answer from the PowerPoint team:

“It’s possible that they’ve purchased the release version but still have the Technical Preview installed, which only included a subset of the transitions. You may want to recommend that they uninstall Office, and re-install using CD or download link from Office.com.”

I hope this helps!
#21

Muhammad

4:35 pm, March 27th, 2011

Dudes i need to know how to show these transitions if the computer has not got office 2010 installed on it.
None of the Pcs in my university have 2010 version thus even if i have it and i add transitions in it they dont show up in the presentation, when i am delivering my presentation in the university
#22

Alaa

10:19 am, June 8th, 2011

hi,
i’m having a problem when i use powerpoint 2010 to open presentations created using earlier versions, especially in the slide show, the animation don’t appear, it’s really annoying,
any help?
#23

Eva

2:18 am, September 9th, 2011

Hi
I am trying to construct a presentation using the 2010 version of powerpoint. My presentation includes video and photos. It also includes some music placed over the photo sections.
I am wating to play the whole presention from start to finish automatically. I have inserted the video/pictures, selected ‘automatically’ in the playback menu, de-selected the ‘on mouse click’ box in animations and yet it still wont go from one slide to the next automatically.
Please can you tell me what I am doing wrong ASAp!
thanks so much
#24

Richard Goring

8:56 pm, September 9th, 2011

Muhammad and Alaa,
This is a tricky one as you can’t embed the slide transitions into your presentation. However, you could potentially save your presentations as a PowerPoint Show (.pps file type), which may be able to maintain the slide transitions as it includes a version of the PowerPoint 2010 viewer within it. Another alternative is to download the PowerPoint 2010 viewer itself and ask to install this on the computers that you are presenting from.

The PowerPoint 2010 viewer can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13

However, you may also need the SP1 update version from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26620

Sorry, I don’t have a non-PowerPoint 2010 PC to test this from, so I can’t tell whether you need both or just the second one. Hope that this helps,

Richard
#25

Richard Goring

9:09 pm, September 9th, 2011

Eva,

It sounds like your music may be stopping the slides transitioning, but just to check, you need to make sure that all clicks are removed from the ‘Animation Pane’ that appears on the right hand side of the slide (accessed through the Animations tab) and that the ‘Advance Slide’ ‘On Mouse Click’ option box is deselected (which is accesed through the Transitions tab). If both of these are fine, then the third thing to do is check how your music is set to play.

If you select your music file and then the Playback audio tool tab on the ribbon, on the right you have a drop down menu with ‘Start’ options. Default is ‘On Click’, however, you need to select ‘Play across slides’ to allow the slides to transition.

The following two video tutorials will probably help, particularly the one about inserting audio (at about 2:45),

Richard

Inserting Audio – http://www.m62.net/powerpoint-training/multimedia-presentations/inserting-audio-powerpoint-2007-2/

Creating Self-running Presentations – http://www.m62.net/powerpoint-training/multimedia-presentations/self-running-presentations-powerpoint-2007/
#26

Simon

6:49 am, September 15th, 2011

Hi,

I am preparing a template for others to add content to but require the ‘Fade’ transition as the default so that when they add slides, the transition is already defined.

Is there a setting where this option can be actioned – eg the slide master?

Thanks,
#27

Richard Goring

2:20 pm, September 15th, 2011

Hi Simon,

You’re right. The slide master is what you need here. If you access the slide master (‘View’ tab on the ribbon > ‘Slide Master’). In PowerPoint 2010 there are usually several versions of the master slide, so select all of them. Then use the ‘Transitions’ tab on the ribbon and select a Fade transition for all of the slides.

Now, every new slide that is created will have a Fade transition as default and has to be manually changed,

Richard
#28

Kristen

1:55 pm, September 28th, 2011

I’m using Word 2010. I’ve set up a presentation with a sound on the first slide. I want it to play throughout my whole presentation.

If I set it to start ‘automatically’ it plays fine when i view the slideshow. However, the music stops when i move to the next slide.

So I changed it to ‘play across all slides’ and as soon as I do this, the sound fails to play in slideshow mode. So I put it back to start ‘automatically’ and the sound works fine.

I thought i’d get around this by getting the sound to start ‘automatically’, then go to effect options and getting it to stop after 99 slides. However, as soon as I type in ’99′ and press ok, then i find that in the playback ribbon the ‘automatically’ as disappeared and once again, the sound won’t play.

It’s so annoying! Hope you can help.
#29

Richard Goring

7:30 pm, September 29th, 2011

Hi Kristen,

Curiously, PowerPoint 2010 doesn’t provide a default ‘play audio’ function when you add a sound that you want to play over several slides. You have to add this in manually.

You are right to use the ‘Play across all slides’ function. When you have selected this, you then need to use the Animations tab on the ribbon to add an animation effect to start the sound file playing. To do this, select the sound object and choose to add an animation. You will find that you have a series of new ‘Media’ animations that you can add. Choose the ‘Play’ animation and, as per a normal animation, move this to the point in the animation timeline that you want the sound to play. You can choose to start it automatically (no clicks) or on a click. The sound should then start playing on your first slide and continue across the rest of the slides in your presentation.

The following tutorial based on PowerPoint 2007 may also help as it is very similar to PowerPoint 2010 (about 3:30 into the video) – http://www.m62.net/powerpoint-training/multimedia-presentations/inserting-audio-powerpoint-2007-2/

Richard
#30

terri

11:17 pm, December 13th, 2011

Is it possible to make an interactive powerpoint that requires a response to a question before advancing to next slide?
#31

Jessica Pyne

6:12 pm, December 16th, 2011

Hi Terri, you have a few options here:

1) You can use hyperlinks to make your presentation interactive, by going to a specific slide depending on the answer selected
2) You can use a PowerPoint add-in such as PowerQuizPoint to add quiz slides to your presentation
3) If the presentation is for use online, you can use a presentation platform such as Brainshark to generate questions that can be used in a variety of ways.

Depending on your usage, some of these options may prove more useful to you than others – if you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get back in touch!