Animations in PowerPoint

Term explanation  •  Category PowerPoint

Definition and meaning

Animations in PowerPoint are visual effects that are applied to different items like graphics, title or bullet points, instead of the slides. There are many different animations like: Appear, Fade, Fly in.

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In the blog post "Advanced animations of charts in PowerPoint" you will find a guide on how to create interesting animations.

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Other glossary terms

.pptm file extension

A .pptm file is a macro-enabled presentation created by MS PowerPoint which contains slides with layout, images, texts and embedded macros.

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Manuscript Speech

For a manuscript speech, the speaker has an entire manuscript to read from. The benefit is that, as every single word is scripted, no important parts will be missed. However, speeches that are fully written down often seem unnatural and may bore the audience.

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Verbal Communication

Communication is verbal if it includes talking with other people. This can be face-to-face but also over the telephone or via Skype

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Animated GIF

An animated GIF enables images to be played in a specific order. It is created when several individual images are saved in a GIF file.

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