Learn how to replace or remove animations applied to objects in a PowerPoint presentation.

Select the slide you want, and then on it, select the number of the animated effect you want to revise. The Animations pane at the right shows all the animations on the slide.

This article shows you a few ways to fine-tune the animations in your presentations. Set the start time of an animation effect You can set an animation effect to start when you click the mouse, …

To provide additional emphasis or show your information in phases, you can add an animation to your SmartArt graphic or to an individual shape in your SmartArt graphic. For example, you …

For example, From Left. Select the second picture that you want to animate. On the Animations tab, pick Fly In. Click Effect Options and pick From Right. Tip: You can change the order of the …

To do things like change the direction of the motion path, edit the individual points of the motion path, or to lock (make it so others can't change the animation) or unlock the animation, select …

Group a set of items and then apply an animation (SmartArt graphics and text boxes—including bullet lists—are already grouped, so you can animate them without these preparation steps.)

An animation effect option called By Paragraph lets you make list items appear one at a time. This type of animation is sometimes called a build slide.

In PowerPoint, you can apply multiple animation effects to a single string of text or an object, such as a picture, shape, or SmartArt graphic.

Learn how to use the Morph transition in PowerPoint to easily create animations and movements of objects, images, words, and characters across your PowerPoint slides.