How to Add Animation to All Slides in PowerPoint

Adding animation to all slides in your PowerPoint presentation can significantly enhance engagement and visual appeal. However, it's important to distinguish between two types of animation: slide transitions (animation between slides) and object animations (animation of items on a slide). Both can be applied to affect all slides, but in different ways.

1. Adding Slide Transitions to All Slides

Slide transitions are animations that play when you move from one slide to the next during a slideshow. This is the most common way to add a single animation effect that truly applies to every slide change.

• Steps to Apply a Transition to All Slides:
  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Click on the Transitions tab on the ribbon at the top of the window.
  3. In the "Transition to This Slide" group, browse and click on the specific transition effect you want (e.g., Fade, Push, Wipe, Morph). You can hover over effects to see a preview.
  4. Once you've selected a transition, look at the Timing group on the far right of the Transitions ribbon.
  5. Click the Apply to All button within the Timing group.

By clicking "Apply to All," the chosen transition effect, along with any selected duration or sound settings in the Timing group, will be applied to every slide in your presentation automatically.

2. Adding Object Animations to Content on All Slides

Object animations apply effects to individual elements on a slide, such as text boxes, pictures, shapes, or charts. Examples include making text fly in, images fade out, or shapes spin. Applying the same object animation to every object on every slide simultaneously isn't a standard one-click feature in PowerPoint.

Based on the provided information, the starting point for adding these effects is the Animations tab:

"This is the control center for animations in PowerPoint. And you'll find it on the ribbon here at the top. I'll. Go ahead and click on animations. And now I can add animation effects."

• How Object Animations Are Typically Added:
  1. Go to the Animations tab on the ribbon. As mentioned, this serves as the "control center for animations in PowerPoint" where you "add animation effects."
  2. Navigate through your slides one by one or in groups.
  3. On each slide, select the specific object(s) you want to animate.
  4. In the "Animation" group on the Animations tab, click to choose an animation effect (e.g., Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, Motion Paths).
  5. Repeat this process for relevant objects on subsequent slides.
  6. To save time when applying the same animation effect to multiple objects across different slides, you can use the Animation Painter. Select an object with the desired animation, click Animation Painter (in the "Advanced Animation" group on the Animations tab), and then click on the target object(s) to copy the animation.

While you can manually apply animations to objects on all slides this way, there is no single button to apply a specific object animation to all text boxes, all images, etc., across the entire presentation with one click.

In conclusion, adding animation between all slides (transitions) is easily done using the "Apply to All" button on the Transitions tab. Adding animation to the content on all slides involves accessing the Animations tab, the "control center for animations," and applying effects to individual objects, a process typically handled slide by slide or using the Animation Painter.