Slides: Can you add animations to groups and objects within slides?

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July 18, 2024
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From what I can see animate only works from slide to slide as a transition. But there’s limited animate options and I would like to stagger or animate individual areas of slides. Is that possible? If I had say 4 blocks of objects/text/pictures or something it would be nice to animate each individually after the other to bring my slide content more to life.

Also, it would be nice in Grid View if you could select a slide and drag to add similar animations right there.

Auto animate after delay doesn’t seem to be available either. Given limited animation features I’m adding some duplicate slides and using smart animate between them but I have to click or use spacebar to trigger each slide. Wish you could choose animate, type of animation and after delay or normal slide click progression.

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Jon Perl

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I think the duplicate slides animation approach could work well, if the extra animation slides didn’t count as a new slide but rather a “transition slide” -- they are all grouped together, and you didn’t feel like you were adding 2x as many slides to have animations.

Chris_P1

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Some tools only offer limited animation options, so you can’t stagger or individually animate objects like you want. While duplicating slides and using smart animate is a clever workaround, having to click or use the spacebar to trigger each slide can feel a bit clunky. It would definitely be nice if you could set animations to trigger automatically with a delay or manage them easily from a grid view.

this also means that if you want say 3 animations within the same slide content, you need 3 slides with varying content according to your needs, sort of as a hack. This seems easy, but you better have your content PERFECT before duplicating your slides twice. If you need to go back and make any changes or additions to any of the static elements from slide one to three, you’ll probably need to start over.