With animated PowerPoint slides, you can transform a standard presentation into an engaging story that holds your audience’s attention from beginning to end.

Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal ...

Then, to add a zoom animation effect to your slide, duplicate the slide. For this, select the slide in the left pane, right-click it and choose ‘ Duplicate Slide ’ option.

When you select an animation effect, PowerPoint immediately previews it so you can see what it does. If you don’t like it, click the object again, select a different effect, and it’s replaced.

Some may confuse transition and animation effects in PowerPoint. Animation effects in PowerPoint are only applied to objects within the slide whereas transitions are applied to the slide itself.

Software companies offer a range of products to enhance PowerPoint. Xcelsius, for example, converts spreadsheets into “dynamic and animated” PowerPoint slides.

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On the Insert tab in PowerPoint, click the "Video" button on the far right and you can select the Macromedia Flash animation file you want to play in your slide show.