Today you're gonna learn
three PowerPoint techniques you can apply to your
next slide presentation. Your boss, your colleagues, they're gonna think you
spent hours on this. That's gonna be our secret. Let's jump in. (upbeat drum music) We know we shouldn't be using the traditional bullet points, right? But we still do because let's be honest, we don't have time to get creative and research other methods, but now we don't have to. This is what you need to do. Insert a Text Box first
and then without worrying about formatting I'm just gonna type in the text that I want. So here I'm gonna add the
agenda for today's topics. Now, all I'm gonna do, go to the Home tab and click
on Convert to SmartArt. So notice that the
moment I hover over these it breaks up my text into
fancier type of text. I'm gonna go and check
out more options here. Under List I'll go with
this one and click on Okay. So it automatically converted
my text to SmartArt. The first thing I'm gonna
do is to convert this into shapes because that's gonna give me more control over this. Click on the entire object and then use the shortcut
key Ctrl + Shift + G. This ungroups the shape. You might have to do it again, so in this case I have more than one layer of groupings so I'm gonna do Ctrl + Shift + G again to get each individual shape here. But you can also right mouse click and select ungroup. You could now give these different colors. I'm just gonna go and keep it simple, give them the same shape fill. I'll go with the dark blue here and I'm gonna do the same thing with these objects here, so let's just highlight them. For the shape outline I'm gonna go with that dark blue. I'm gonna add numbering to this, so let's go to Insert a Text Box. Position this the way we like. Change the font type and
I'm gonna make this bigger, position it in the middle. Let's make this gray. Copy, Paste this two times and just apply it to the other topics. Okay, so now that I have them here I'm gonna group these
three objects together. Just hold down the Ctrl key, click on them and then press
Ctrl + G to group them. You can also, instead of holding down Ctrl, you can highlight them like
this and press Ctrl + G and a third time for this one. I'm gonna leave this object separate and you're gonna see why in a second. Now, let's move on to
our effortless animation. So let's say when I start
my PowerPoint presentation I just wanna have this topic in the middle of the slide. I wanna blend these in on my second slide. What I'm gonna do is to
duplicate this slide. That's how I want it to look at the end. Here is the effortless transition part. I'm gonna make this smaller, just so I can move these
objects out of view. These I'm gonna pull down here. So notice that I'm not deleting them, I'm just moving them out of view. Push this here. Put this where I want it to be and you're gonna see why in a second. If I was gonna go and present this without any animation, this is how it's gonna look, quite boring, right. One option, of course, is to work with the animations
in the animation pane but this can be quite a pain to work with and a lot of people
just don't have the time to play around with the options here. We're gonna make this effortless. Go to Transitions and click on Morph. It just does it for you. So basically this animation is actually a slide transition. The way it works is that it looks to see where these exact
objects were on the slide before it and where did
they move in the next slide? And then it tries to fill
up the space between them in a super smooth way. So if I go to Presentation View, this looks like something I put a lot of effort to create, but in fact, I didn't. I just had to click on the Morph option. The Morph is available in
the Office 365 version. What I'm gonna do is to
duplicate this slide, move this out of view. I'm also gonna move these out of view. So basically, the way that Morph works is that the object that has to travel the furthest is gonna
leave the slide first. So let's say I wanna
talk about Enhanced Morph so I'm gonna bring this here, put this out of view. Because I duplicated this slide I also brought the Morph
Transition with it. If I go to Presentation View this is how it looks, really nice, without me having to do anything except rearranging the objects here. One point to note is the duration of this, so if you feel that it's too slow, you want it faster, you can change the speed from here. You also have some more effect options so in this case I'm just
working with Objects, so the default option is fine. But if I wanna use Morph
on words I can do that and if I wanna use Morph
on single characters I can do that as well. Okay, so now let's take
a look at Enhanced Morph. Enhanced Morph is available
in the latest version of Office 365 in the
Insider Edition for now and soon it's gonna be
available for everyone. So let me show you what it does? I'm gonna copy these icons to here because guess what? The new Office icons are changing. These are the ones that we know and these are the ones that are coming. Let's position these somehow central. If I wanted to present
the new Office icons I have no animation in
this slide right now. Let's go to Presentation View. This is how it looks, right, quite boring. If I just go and say I wanna apply Morph to this, let's see. That's the type of animation I get. Nothing really fancy, right. Because Morph tries to
find it on the next slide, if it doesn't, well, it doesn't move it, right, 'cause it doesn't know what to do with it. Here's where the new, Enhanced Morph comes in. You can actually Morph one
object into another object you just have to follow these steps. Let's bring up the Selection Pane, use Alt + F10 to bring this up or you can bring it up
by going to the Home tab and going to Select right here. What I'm gonna do is
change the label of this to the identical label of the object on the second slide and I'm gonna add
exclamation marks to this. So two exclamation marks and then I'm gonna call this Excel. For this one let's do the same but call it PowerPoint. And we're gonna repeat
this on the second slide. So this is gonna be PowerPoint. This is gonna be Excel. Okay, so they have the same name and they have two
exclamation marks before them and we have Morph activated. Now, what's gonna happen? Let's go take a look. It Morphs the one object
into the second object. So we get this really nice, smooth effect. The way to make it work
is the exclamation marks. If I just called them both Excel and I don't put those exclamation marks this is not gonna work. Let's go try it. You see, the PowerPoint
one morphs really well and this one doesn't. So you need the two exclamation marks and then you can take advantage of this smooth object transition. And that concludes our third tip. If you wanna improve
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