Adding animations to a slide is a great way of controlling the message you're trying to give to the audience by allowing it to build up gradually but it can also be distracting if used incorrectly. So let's look at some best practices and how to create animations as well. The first thing you need to do< just have some objects like any normal slide. And then what we're really gonna control here is the order in which they appear, okay? So let's say we want object one to appear first. I'm gonna click on object one and I'm gonna click Animations. I'm gonna use the animations menu at the top. And again, you can try and do this with the keyboard but I think in this particular case, using the mouse is just more efficient. So if you click the animations menu, we wanna always be able to see the animation pane as well ideally. So I'm gonna trigger that animation pane. Now, the best way to, I think the most simple way of animating anything is to have it just appear, okay? There's various options, but if we select appear, then it now appears in the animation pane and you also get this one next to it and that designates the order in which it's gonna appear. So I can do the same thing now for object two. Select appear. Okay, and then object three and object four. Okay, actually, I'm gonna leave object five alone. Oops, object four appear. There we go. Right, so if you look at our animation pane now, you'll see that we have the list all listed next to each other. And the fact there's a different number next to each of them means that when we animate, we'll have to either click the mouse or hit the down arrow in order to cause the next object to appear. If you want multiple objects to appear at the same time, what you need to do is change this. So we can click the down arrow and we can select start with previous. So that would mean that objects three and four would arrive at the same time. If you look now, you'll see object one's got a one next to it, object two has a two next to it. But objects three and four both have threes next to them, object five's got nothing next to it at all. And that means it's always gonna be visible on the screen.
