Animations in PowerPoint

Term explanation  •  Category PowerPoint

Definition and meaning

Animations in PowerPoint are visual effects that are applied to different items like graphics, title or bullet points, instead of the slides. There are many different animations like: Appear, Fade, Fly in.

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In the blog post "Advanced animations of charts in PowerPoint" you will find a guide on how to create interesting animations.

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Other glossary terms

Face-to-face

If you are talking to someone face-to-face you are directly facing each other.

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.potm file extension

A .potm file is a template for macro-enabled presentations. They are used for creating more .pptm files with the same macro settings and the same formatting.

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.potx file extension

A .potx file is a file which contains, styles, texts, layouts and formatting of a PowerPoint (.ppt) file. It's like a template and useful if you want to have more than one presentation with the same formatting.

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Outline view

The outline view in PowerPoint shows a list with the whole text of all slides on the left of the screen. There are no images and graphics displayed in this view. It's useful for editing the presentation and can also be saved as a Word document.

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