How to Apply Slide Transitions in a PowerPoint Presentation

In this tutorial, you will learn how to apply slide transition in a PowerPoint presentation.

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PowerPoint is a dynamic program which could be used in making different sorts of presentations. To make your presentations more catchy and attractive for the general public, Microsoft PowerPoint features some editing and transition tools. Proper and smooth slide transition is the key to a good presentation. Transitions in PowerPoint are an effective way to express your content in a manageable manner overall. For the same reason in this tutorial, you will learn how to apply slide transition in a PowerPoint presentation.

Step # 1- Go to the "transitions" tab

First of all, go to the "transitions" tab located on the top menu. Once you have clicked on the "transitions" tab, you would be displayed with different transition styles to choose from.

Step # 2- Go through the transition options

If you want to go through all of the transition options, there is an arrow on the side bar of the "transition" tab. Click on it and a drop down menu will appear containing all of the slide transition options. You can click on each one of them to see how the effect turns out on the selected slide. You can always scroll down the transition menu to view the transition options available.

Step # 3- Apply a slide transition

Click on a slide transition to apply the slide transition on the selected slide.

Step # 4- View the slide in the full screen mode

Once the slide transition has been applied, press "shift+F5" to view the selected slide in full screen mode. You can actually see how it is going to appear on the projector.

Step # 5- Change transitions settings

A transition setting for a particular effect is limited and pre-set. You can change it as per your requirements and preferences. You can go to "effect options" icon and select the desired direction from the drop down menu. For instance, in this tutorial "blinds" is selected as the transition. The direction is "horizontal" according to "effect options".

Step # 6- Apply transition settings to all slides

Once done, you can click on the "apply to all" option for all the slides to have similar transitions. This option makes your PowerPoint slides appear consistent with one another.

Step # 7- Switch to full screen mode

To check the slideshow transitions for all slides, press "F5" from your keyboard and you can see the slideshow for the entire presentation. To move to the next slide in the slideshow, use "arrow keys" or "spacebar" key on your keyboard. Press the "Esc" key to exit the slideshow.

Step # 8 - Edit transition duration

You can change how fast or slow a slide appears in your presentation by clicking on the "duration" option on the very right corner. Type the time duration you want to apply on a slide effect. You can also set the time by controlling the arrows buttons given there. Click on "Preview" button on the very left corner to see how it looks. If you want to change the transition duration, repeat the procedure until you get what you are looking for.

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in this tutorial you will learn how to
apply slide transitions in a PowerPoint
presentation
first of all click on the title slide go
to the transitions tab and select a
transition style from the many options
you can click on the arrow key to expand
the gallery and check out all the
options available to apply the
transition on the slide simply
double-click on that option press shift
+ f5 from your keyboard to switch to the
full screen mode to exit the full screen
mode simply press the Escape key
you can edit the selected transitions by
opening up the effect options menu and
selecting an option from the list for
example the direction of the transition
etc click on the apply to all option to
apply the transition on all the slides
in the presentation
press shift + f5 for the full screen
slide show again and use the spacebar or
arrow keys to change the slides you can
edit out the duration of each slide and
edit it to suit the requirements of your
presentation
increase or decrease the time for each
slide using the slider next to the
duration option you can preview all the
changes made by clicking on the preview
button on the top left side of the
screen
always remember to save any changes you
make