You can add style and visual interest to PowerPoint presentations with any of dozens of animations for objects like slide titles, images and bulleted points. While these animations can aid your presentation, if you use too many, they could damage the presentation's professionalism and be distracting to your audience. Making sure your presentation is visually impressive while still professional can be crucial to maintaining a quality image for your business. You can easily remove a single animation or all animations from whatever object you want in your presentation, and you can remove all animations from a slide if you prefer.
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I was recently asked the questions about how to remove elements from one of our animated PowerPoint templates. Specifically, our subscriber wanted to remove the globe and keep the rest of the animation from this template. But she also wanted to keep the globe animation in other slides. The animated PowerPoint Template used in this tutorial.
This is a great question, and it gives me an opportunity to better explain how the slide master works. This tutorial applies to PowerPoint 2010, 2008(mac) and 2007. The Slide Master Explained The heart of a PowerPoint template is the Slide Master. To view the slide master – choose ViewSlide Master.
Slide Master View in PowerPoint It controls all the default layouts and various pre-designed slides that are included in our templates. Each Slide Master can have any number of layout pages beneath it. Think of the Slide Master as the template for the template. You can have multiple Slide Masters, and each Master can have multiple layouts attached to it. It’s powerful but a bit confusing at first. Take a look at this screen-shot, the slide at the top is the Master, everything beneath and indented is a layout attached to the Master.
The Slide Master and the attached Layouts Adding and Subtracting Items from the Slide Master An element or image placed on the Slide Master is copied to any layout page attached to the Master. (There is a way to hide Slide Master graphics on the attached layouts.
This is explained at the end.) So in our example, if you remove the globe from the Slide Master, the top slide in the illustration above, it is also removed from all the layout pages of the template. That’s great if you don’t want the globe to appear anywhere in the template, but the original problem was we wanted the globe animation to appear only on select slides, not get rid of it completely. There are a couple of things you could do at this point. Cut the animation from the Slide Master and then Paste it into the individual layouts where you want it to appear. Any element you place on a layout slide, will only appear in your presentation when you choose that layout.
This is a fine, but if you start adding elements to the layouts, it can quickly get confusing where the final resting place for that element is. Is that picture on a actual slide, on a layout, or is it on the Slide Master? Duplicate the Slide Master This is my favorite option.
Because you can have multiple Slide Masters in your template, you can duplicate the Slide Master. Choose ‘Duplicate Slide Master’ from the menu after you right click top of the Slide Master. Now with this new Slide Master, in our example, you can have a complete set of new layouts without the globe animation, and a complete set with the animation. Hide Background Graphics to remove Slide Master graphics from layout pages. One note of warning, if you hide the background graphics you will need to copy and paste any images or videos you wish to continue to use directly into the layout you are modifying. In Closing It can be confusing, but once you have worked with the Slide Master and it’s layouts it gets pretty easy. Just remember when editing our templates, first start editing on the Slide Master.
If you cannot remove or change what you want there, then move on to looking at the attached Layout slides. If your still have questions, feel free to contact our customer support.