Understanding Google Slides Animations and Transitions
Transitions occur when you move from one slide to the next during a presentation. Google Slides contains transitions that dissolve, fade, slide, flip, turn on a cube, and bounce in a gallery. Animations highlight text and images on a slide. Animations help with eye flow by directing where your audience should look during the presentation. Google Slides contains animations that appear, disappear, fade, fly, zoom, and spin. Play around with different transitions and animations and choose those that match the tone of your presentation. Less is better when using transitions and animations in Google Slides. You want your audience to be drawn in by your cool graphical moves, but you don’t want them distracted by a constantly moving presentation. Limit the use of transitions and animations to keep the audience focused on you and the topic of your presentation. Here are a few more guidelines:
Don’t overdo it: Think about your audience, the purpose of your presentation, and the image you want to project. Then, choose your transitions and animations wisely.Avoid twirling and bouncing slides: Choose subtle animations and transitions that fade and dissolve. Complex movements can be distracting.Automate animations as much as possible: Set up animations so they automatically start with or after a previous animation. If you’re focused on initiating the next animation, you’re not focused on your audience.Use animations to keep your audience focused: Create animations to help your audience focus on the content of your presentation. Use animations to highlight important points, ideas, and concepts.
How to Create Google Slides Transitions
In a Google Slides presentation using the default slide transition, slides just appear and disappear as you move through your slideshow. Give your presentation some visual interest by changing the transition.
How to Animate Text and Images
Animations in Google Slides are easy and straightforward. For simple animations, add a single effect to text or an image. If you want to add more emphasis to a slide element, add multiple animations to it. To add multiple animations to a slide element:
How to Animate a Bulleted List
When you want the items in your bulleted list to appear on the slide one at a time, animate the list.
How Apply the Same Animation to Multiple Elements on a Slide
Another cool effect is to make two or more objects appear on the slide at the same time using the same animation. To apply the same animation to multiple elements:
How to Delete Google Slides Animations and Transitions
Sometimes transitions and animations need to disappear. When you no longer want to use a transition or animation in your presentation, delete it.
Preview Google Slides Transitions and Animations
After you’ve applied transitions to your slides and created animations for important elements of your presentation, preview the entire presentation before you deliver it in front of a live audience. Select Present to open your presentation in a browser window, then use the controls to see the transition from slide to slide and to watch the animations move across your screen.
