
#POWERPOINT ANIMATION FADE OUT HOW TO#
You will need to create the animation on a PC but you can open and edit the document once you get it back on your Mac without any issues.ĭo you have questions or suggestions about how to animate graphs in PowerPoint to change over time, let us know on Twitter more thing.

What you need to keep in mind when you animate your graphs in PowerPoint to change over time Here is the PowerPoint file if you want to tinker with it. Now you should have something like this example where the labels fade out before the chart animates. To fix this, you need to fade your labels out before the transition begins use the “ Fade out” animation. If you are using labels when you animate graphs in PowerPoint to change over time you will notice they move around across the screen, which is not ideal. Select the Morph transition between your two new slides and voila, you are done! Note: Powerpoint creates an invisible object on top of all of these newly created vector objects. REMEMBER to ungroup twice for your After graphic as well. Now that you have a vector based graphic you need to ungroup it again so that all the elements are editable individual objects. PowerPoint will give you a warning saying you are about to convert this new image as a drawing object, go ahead and select Yes. Right click on your new graphics and select Ungroup. We need to do a bit of clean-up for our animations to work. Repeat steps 4,5,6 and 7 for your AFTER chart Step 9:Ĭlean up. So you have to resize and align the graph again. REASON: PowerPoint does not ‘paste’ the new vector based chart to its original dimensions. Select Picture (Enhanced Meta File), which is a vector based asset. You will be presented with a list of formats in which you can paste content. On your NEW Before screen click on the Paste drop-down arrow and select Paste Special On your ORIGINAL Before slide copy your graph by using Ctrl C OR selecting Copy from the Home Ribbon Step 5: Hide your original (editable) charts for future editing OR if you need to start over. If you need all your bars to be the same color you can change their fill color after you finished the animation.Ĭreate two new blank slides for your animated BEFORE and AFTER slides. To do this, every bar needs to be a unique color otherwise it will group them together and the animation won’t work. REASON: You need to force PowerPoint to create unique shapes when you convert your charts to animate-able graphics. Make sure every bar uses a distinct color.


Step 2 ( Not applicable for line graphs): You don’t want to draw attention to other parts of the slide, only to the changing graph. REASON: Everything that moves between the slides will animate. Prepare your BEFORE and AFTER charts to have exactly the same size and position. If you aren’t sure what a morph animation is then maybe this music video will help jog your memory: You can do this for many things, not just graphs so this is a valuable skill to learn for other types of animations as well. Then we create a PowerPoint morph transition between the two slides – which will create your graph animation. In this tutorial, we are going to create two slides – one slide with the “before” view and one with the “after” view. This tutorial will help you animate your PowerPoint line graph, bar chart or column chart – showing its values animate over time.
