
5th level: Works the same way, animating all levels from 1st to 5th level paragraphs or bullet levels.Īnimate attached shape: This option is available only if your.4th level: Works the same way, animating all levels from 1st to 4th level paragraphs or bullet levels.3rd level: Works the same way, animating all levels from 1st to 3rd level paragraphs or bullet levels.Of course, this works only if you have 2nd level paragraphs or bullet levels in your selected text. 2nd level: Animates by both 1st and 2nd level paragraphs or bullet levels.
This is the default option that PowerPoint uses.
1st level: Animates by 1st level paragraphs or bullet levels. All paragraphs at once: Animates all paragraphs or bullet levels at one go. As one object: Animates the entire text container (text placeholder or text box) at one go. By letter: Animates text by one letter (character) at a time.įigure 8: Group text options for animating text. By word: Animates text by one word at a time. All at once: Animates the text by paragraphs. Let us explore text animation options in the order they appear within the Text Animations pane:Īnimate text: Animate text drop-down list includes three options as shown in Figure 7. This reveals the options within the Text Animations pane, as shown in Figure 6.įigure 6: Options within the Text Animations pane. Pane, and click the Text Animations pane that you can see highlighted in red,įigure 5: Text Animations pane within the Custom Animation tab of the Toolbox Select the animation applied to the text within the Animation order This brings up the Custom Animation tab of the Toolbox as shown inįigure 5, below. Tip: Based on your requirement, you can even apply anīutton (highlighted in red within Figure 4, below) within theĪnimations tab of the Ribbon as shown in Figure 4.įigure 4: Reorder button within Animations tab Inįigure 1 you can see a text placeholder selected. Select part of the text, or the entire text box / placeholder that contains bulleted text (or paragraphs). In this tutorial you will learn how you can access some specialized options forĪnimating paragraphs and bulleted text sequentially by words, by letters, and by paragraph levels.įollow these steps to apply animation to text and explore various options for text animation in Text boxes animate along with its parent level. Sequenced to first level paragraphs (first level bullets) only, and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or Within a bulleted or numbered list, in that case all text animates as sequenced bulleted lists. By default, when you animate a text placeholder or text box, all the text contained animates at one go unless your text content is Additionally, there's more you can do to text animation, as we shall explore in this tutorial.