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When creating presentations in PowerPoint, there is often a desire to diversify the slides with some moving or interactive elements. One option is to insert an animated GIF or so-called “gif” into your PowerPoint presentation. In this material you will learn how to do this in the PowerPoint 2010, 2013 or 2016 presentation editor.

Fortunately, this is done very simply. GIFs are inserted into a PowerPoint presentation just like any other image. For example, you can go to the “Insert” tab, click on the “Drawing” button and select the desired GIF animation in the window that opens. Or you can simply drag a GIF file from any folder into the PowerPoint program window. One way or another, the animated GIF image will appear in your presentation.

But, the use of animated pictures has some peculiarities. Next we will look at some of them.

GIF animation is only supported starting in PowerPoint 2010. To use GIF animation in your presentations, you need PowerPoint 2010 or newer. Animation will not work in older versions of the editor.

Animation is only displayed in view mode. In GIF presentation editing mode, animation does not work and is simply displayed as a static image. But, if you start viewing the presentation, the GIF animation will work as expected.

Can't use effects. You also need to remember that most of the effects that can be added to an image in PowerPoint will turn an animated GIF image into a static image. For example, if you add a frame to a GIF picture, you will get a static image. At the same time, when adding GIF shadows, the animation continues to work.

GIF images can be placed on all slides. If you need to insert GIF animation on all slides of the presentation, and you want the GIF image to always be at one point on the screen, then this can also be done. To do this, simply insert a GIF image onto one of the slides and place it in the place where it should be. After that, select it with the mouse and copy it using the CTRL-C key combination. After this, you need to paste the GIF image onto the remaining frames using the CTRL-V combination. With this copying, the image will always be located at the same point and will not move across the screen as you move from slide to slide.

A GIF image can be inserted as a video. You can also insert an animated picture as a video. To do this, go to the “Insert” tab and click “Video - Computer Video”. After that, select the file type as “All files” and select the GIF file.

Some GIFs may not work. If you did everything correctly, but the animation still does not play, then you should try using a different image. Perhaps it will work with another image.

The presentation remains one of the most accessible types of multimedia support for any speech - from a school lesson to a speech at a TED conference.

A presentation is nothing more than a tool for delivering information to the viewer. Before picking up any tool - say, a drill - a person will try to study it in advance, consult instructions or experienced specialists, and then use it at his own peril and risk. When it comes to tools that are less hazardous to health, we do not always take the time to carefully study the possibilities and very often begin to use them for other purposes. So it turns out that we use a “digital drill” to start chopping nuts and stirring the soup.

We are still facing the consequences of this attitude towards digital multimedia tools that befell us in the 90s. We see inappropriate use of visual solutions on the Internet, in the developments of teachers, student projects and presentations of colleagues.

Because they gave me the tools, but no instructions.

One of the main problems with 90% of presentations is the inappropriate and excessive use of animation. Let's understand the reasons behind this moving picture craze, identify the challenges that animation can solve, and create a plan of action to tame animation.

Why do you want to insert animation effects into your presentation?

The answer is simple: because it is possible. Let's remember the first paragraph and the drill metaphor. There are so many buttons, let's try them all!

Here are the animation effects that PowerPoint offers. And this is just a small part.

And there are several dozen effects available in PowerPoint. Each of them can be customized and applied to various elements of the presentation - both to the entire slide, and to some of its blocks, and to text, and to visual objects. You can also layer effects on top of each other.

The second possible and more reasonable answer: to increase viewer involvement. Our audience will get bored, and we will effectively flip the slide - and their attention will be drawn to us again, we naively hope. This is not how it works, the drill will run idle. If the presentation is not thought out structurally, if the narrator has not fully decided on the purpose of his speech, no show with a flight and a carousel will help - the drill will work in vain.

Why should you use animation?

Does this mean that animation should be abandoned altogether? No. Animation is a great feature of our multifunctional “digital drill”.

Animation effects should be added to:

a) emphasize the sequence of any actions or phenomena discussed in the presentation;
b) clearly demonstrate movement and change;
c) draw attention to a key element of the entire presentation.

Another great idea for the useful use of animation effects is creating an educational interactive quiz.

This is logical: animation itself is designed to simulate movement. Think carefully about whether you need to animate this title? What about the items on this list? Is it really necessary for the graph to fly out with a twist towards the viewer?

How not to overdo it?

In order not to overdo it, it is enough to remember the two golden principles of development: necessity and sufficiency. Decide whether you need an animation effect here, and then decide whether the effect you choose is sufficient to produce the effect (pardon the bad pun).

Here are some practical tips to help you calculate the effort you'll need to animate your presentation.

If you are animating text (for example, you need it to appear gradually), use simple, static effects as much as possible. There is no need to add effects for both text input and output.
If you're animating multiple objects, keep consistency in mind: try to ensure that the effects don't conflict with each other as they appear. For example, the effect of moving in a circle will not suit fading at all.
Don't use animation effects on every slide. You should not fill more than 5-10% of your “airtime” with animation.
If you feel that it will take a lot of effort and time to realize your ideal animation idea, think about whether you can do without it? A tool should make life easier, not complicate it.

In this article we will look at the animation of slide elements and their classification. Earlier we talked about transitions between slides and their design. Animations differ from transitions in that they are applied directly to slide elements rather than to the entire slide.

Creating animation in Power Point

In order to apply it to any element of the slide (be it text, a picture or any other element), you need to left-click on the selected element and go to the “Animation” tab, after which all that remains is to select the animation you like.

This procedure must be done for each slide element. It should also be noted that the elements on the slide will appear in the order in which the animations were selected, so you need to act sequentially.

The order of appearance of the elements will be marked with numbers after applying animation to it. In order to delete an already selected animation, you need to left-click on the animation sequence number and click Delete.

Just like in transitions, you can apply your own effects to each animation (departure sides, angles, frequency and other effects, depending on the selected animation - they are individual for each).

So, there are four categories of animation in Power Point:

Selection
Exit
Travel paths

Each of the categories is used to design the appearance, highlighting and disappearance of slide elements. So, at the beginning of viewing, entrance animations are used (for the appearance of elements on the slide), while viewing the slide, highlight animations are used (to draw attention to individual elements of the slide) and at the end - exit animations (for the beautiful disappearance of slide elements).

This way, you can apply multiple types of animation to each element. To do this, after adding one animation, left-click on “Add Animation” to the right of the block with animations. Next, we’ll look at each category separately and take a closer look at the animations they include.

Entry Animations

This category contains 13 different animations, namely: fade in, fade out, fly out, fade in, pan, emerge, figure, clock hand, random stripes, zoom in with rotation, zoom in, rotate and pop out.

Next, using an example, we will analyze the five most effective animations in this category. So, the example shows an advertising headline, a picture, an element to attract attention to information about the discount, the actual size of the discount and the decorative element “Heart”. Thus, we have five slide elements, using which we will look at the five listed animations.

Figure
Hour hand
Increase
Popping out
Smooth approach

Selection Animations

This category includes 19 types of animation: ripple, color ripple, wobble, rotate, resize, gray out, darken, highlight, transparency, object color, complementary color, line color, fill color, recolor, text color, underline, bold, bold overlay and color wave. The following types of animation were selected from this category:

Underline
Rotation
Additional color
color wave
Ripple

Exit Animations

In this category, just like in the first, there are 13 types of animation. Namely: fade, fade, float out, fade out, panorama, fade in, figure, hour hand, random stripes, zoom out with rotation, zoom in, rotate and pop out.

Smooth removal
Panorama
Zoom out with rotation
Figure
Hour hand

Animations "Movement Paths"

Can be used either independently or in conjunction with other types of animation. In fact, if you use it in conjunction with another animation, it will only set the direction (shape) in which the selected animation of the other category will move.

This category includes 6 types of animation: lines, arcs, turns, shapes, loops and custom path. Moreover, the user path implies the ability to draw the trajectory of the element’s movement independently.

It is also very important to correctly set the starting point of the movement, so that in the future the element does not go beyond the boundaries of the slide.

Here we will look at two examples. First, we will show you how to use this animation independently. On the second - the same thing together with the animation from the entry category.

Animations used in the examples:

Lines
Figures
Turns
Loops