Bullet+point+tricks


 * Tricks to do with Bullet Points**

Animation schemes—Animation schemes are patterns you can use for the appearance (and, if you want, the subsequent disappearance) of bullet points in a list. You can add a scheme to a single slide or to all of the slides (or all of a certain type of slide) in your presentation. “Appear and dim” is an especially useful scene if you want to go through your listed items, one-by-one. Access the Animation Schemes menu from the Slide show tab.

More Animation tricks: the Custom Animation Menu—This menu allows you to add all kinds of entrances, effects, movements, and exits for the items in your bulleted list. Use the Slide Show à Custom Animations click. Once you add an effect to a line on your list, you can click on the arrow at the right of this effect and modify it further, using “effect options” to add a sound, change the timing, have the words come in one at a time (or even one letter at a time), or turning off the dim function. In this palate, you can also alter the order of effects. With some effects (fly ins, for example), you can also modify the direction from which the text enters and in which it exists and the speed of its movement. In this menu, you can also set when transitions occur. There are three options: “On click,” “After Previous” (right after the previous effect—standard for bulleted lists) and “With Previous” (when you want multiple effects to occur at once). I urge you to use “on click” as this will allow you far more control of when your text will appear. However, if you select “with previous” for the first effect/first list item, it will appear as soon as the slide appears—hardly essential, but worth considering.