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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#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!