Where Can I Download Free Animations For Powerpoint

[William Dupere]

We attended a webinar as a group today and are pretty sold on Articulate for our teams. We are curious about Powerpoint imports, though. Do animations or any sort of interactions we design into our Powerpoints make the transition into Storyline?

I had an opposite case, where I wanted to import a PPT without preserving the animations, but I didn't find any checkbox to tick on, to refrain from this preserving option.
Is it possible, or do I have to first remove all animations from my original PPT? Many thanks!

I guess there's a further question - which ones will make it to a HTML5 export? I was very disappointed when I saw the published output of one of my courses, and found that wipe isn't supported in HTML5

I spent a bunch of time creating some really nice animations in PPT, then imported them into storyline and it broke them. I had to redo them all from scratch in storyline in order to get them to work. To be clear, import of animations into storyline from powerpoint will not work, storyline will break your animations and you'll have to redo them all, . (period!)

I have recorded a presentation with lovely animations, but when I play it back, the animations haven't happened 'on the click' as I had intended. Instead the presentation just plays with the full page with all pictures/icons on screen right from the start.

Hi Peter - yes, not within an actual Teams meeting - just me talking through the slide deck, recording it, and then hoping that I would have a training session ready to post (with the carefully prepared animations and sound though!).

I held a training session with 45+ people in attendance. I walked the participants through a PowerPoint presentation with animations. Nothing fancy here, just text boxes, arrows, and pictures that popped up and then hid on next mouse click. I've confirmed with the participants that they saw the animations as I intended during the live presentation. However, the recording does not show animations and instead only shows the full slide, which without animations is impossible to read and understand. In addition to Teams not recording as I actually presented, it doesn't show any of the chat history from the recording either.

Are there settings that I am not aware of within Teams to address this issue? I am upset because this was a very big training event with intentions of all new hires watching this recorded training, but as it's recorded now it won't be usable.

@CalebBadley I just experienced the same thing. Used the new PowerPoint Live feature for multiple live Teams webinar sessions and recorded the sessions for staff who were unable to attend, only to find that slides with animations were not captured as displayed, but as the whole mess all at once, like the slides look when not in presentation mode.

Just to at least assure you that you are not alone. My presentation looks very flat without the animations which I played to the audience! Can someone help us please as this must be a regular expectation, that our recordings reflect the live session.

@PeteHeibel After pondering this, it seems that the way the slides are sharing is a different mechanism than the old way, which was just sharing your screen or window. The name "PowerPoint Live" is probably the cue that it works for live presentations, but is not suitable for recording the sessions for later viewing. Not sure that it is really a bug that can be fixed. I think it is a limitation for the tool and we just need to choose how we are going to share a slideshow based on if it is live only or if it must be recorded. I feel like they should have explicitly stated this, but I suppose the "live" part of the name is supposed to imply that. Lesson learned. It is a nice feature for live only.

Thanks for replying. That's an interesting point you make. I suppose I assumed it was just a smoother, cleaner way to share a PowerPoint presentation allowing multiple presenters to share with ease and to host the window within Teams rather than trying to figure out which window to share. Perhaps it is intended for another purpose, but as you point out, it is not very clear if that is the case.

Thank you for the key to my problem about my animations not happening on recording. Please can you tell me how to ensure I do the recording on 'presenter view' so that my animations all happen. Teams always pops up now as 'PP live' - how to alter that?

@Janet1912 Hi. I had this same issue. Instead of using the 'PowerPoint Live' presenter mode. I instead chose 'share window' and selected the open PowerPoint presentation, you can still do presenter mode etc.

I had the same problem, but I managed to record a presentation with the transitions effects to be seen when played back. I did not use the PowerPointLive option in the sharing option, but shared my screen instead, having the slides in the background open, I maximised PowerPoint and started the presentation.

Really grateful for that, and it's good to know I'm not alone. Have just tried your suggestion, and yes, using the Desktop, the animations are buzzing beautifully on the recording. So tempting though to record a podcast on the PowerPoint Live - don't!

Had to do a complex technical training so spent days preparing slides that I could step through and incrementally introduce concepts to build off one another, all the while pointing to the concepts I was discussing with the cursor. The people in the meeting could see all this but the recording couldn't so the video is next to useless as a reference they can come back to now. VERY ANNOYING

Feedback portal is also where you'll hear feedback from Microsoft. When I last spoke with the PPT Live product teams they were well aware of all these issue, so probably just need our help to prioritise the work to develop it.

I have a fairly long powerpoint presentation where I use different sections, hyperlinks between them and animations on each slide (roughly 60 in total). Depending on the person I'm talking to I hide some slides while showing others. Sometimes when I skip to the next slide the person listening asks me to go back a few slides. The process of going back a few slides is not really difficult as you only press the left arrow key (or page up or whatever), but it doesn't look professional when you have to press it 6 times to go backwards (or forward) through the animations that many of the slides have.

Suppose that I am 2 animations in into a 7 animation slide and I want to directly skip ahead to the next slide; is there a way to, with one keyboard command, skip the remaining 5 animations on the current slide and go to the next one? I want to be able to continue through PPT slides without going through every single animation, on the fly (if this is possible).

Often you have a standard box on every sheet, (logo, date, page#, etc, or you ca create one).You can now right-mouse click this item and choose 'Action settings' then place a tick 'Hyperlink to' next slide (or any other choice)

Click and drag the desired (link-)slide in the left menu (the canvas menu), into the slide where you want the link to be. A picture of that slide will then be pasted into the slide and work as a link.

But something I didn't find out was how to jump to a slide showing the "end result" after all animations have been played. The possible links I mentioned above always "reset" animations for all slides.

Motion Path animations determine the route (path) and the direction in which the animated slide object moves across or around the slide. When you add a motion path animation to an object, you see the path as a dotted line with two arrow heads, as shown in Figure 1, below.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows sports a faded preview of the animated slide object at the end-point of the motion path, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1. The benefit of this faded preview of the end position is that you know exactly where the slide object will stop once the animation concludes. It's even more useful if you have multiple animated objects on a slide.

These previews typically show at the end of the animation path, unless your Motion Path is locked from the animation (or if you drag the Motion Path away). In that case, you will also see an "animation" begin preview. Look at Figure 2, below where you can see that the animated object is placed a little apart, and selecting the Motion Path clearly shows both beginning and end position previews.

Do remember though that even in PowerPoint 2016 and 2013, you can only see position previews of Motion Path animations where starting and/or end points of the motion path are away from the position of the slide object. For closed paths, the beginning and end points of the motion path overlap the position of the slide object. Thus, you will find no end preview, as shown in Figure 4, below where we have applied the Loops Motion Path preset. We cannot see the faded preview because the Loop motion path animation has the same starting and end point positions.

Have you ever used keyboard shortcuts and sequences in PowerPoint? Or are you a complete keyboard aficionado? Do you want to learn about some new shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented?

What is the use of the Animation Pane in PowerPoint? Think of it as your hub to view, manage, and adjust your animations. In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to view animations in PowerPoint and adjust them on one convenient menu.

Animations in PowerPoint are the best way to bring your slides to life. But at first, they can seem daunting and difficult to work with. Fortunately, this isn't the case. That's all thanks to the Animation Pane PowerPoint dashboard. The Animation Pane controls all animations from one location, right inside the app.

So, what is the use of Animation Pane in PowerPoint? It's a sidebar menu that sits on the right side of your PowerPoint screen. It's a listing of every animation that you've applied to a certain slide.

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