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Position Previews for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Motion Path animations determine the route (path) and the direction in which the animated slide object moves across or around on the slide. When you add a motion path animation to an object, you see the path as a dotted line with two arrow-heads. PowerPoint 2016 sports a faded preview of the animated slide object at the end point of the motion path.

Explore Position Previews for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, Microsoft Windows, Motion Path, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Edit Points in Motion Paths of Animations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

While working with Motion Paths, especially after drawing a Custom Motion Path to animate your slide object, you may feel that the path drawn is not very smooth. Or you may have used one of the Preset Motion Paths to animate your slide object, and now you want to make some changes. Maybe you want to extend the path or use smoother corners rather than the default pointed ones. Drawing with a mouse typically does result in paths that don’t look too good! Since Motion Paths are essentially lines drawn in PowerPoint, you can always edit them using the Edit Points option, and reorient them as required.

Learn to edit motion paths using the Edit Points option in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, Microsoft Windows, Motion Path, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Resources: Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs aren’t as omnipresent as they once were. In a bandwidth starved world, they were an easy way to add impact to a webpage. Bandwidth issues are still relevant. But nowadays many mainstream sites only use animated GIFs if they can add value to a design. That doesn’t mean that animated GIFs aren’t popular. There are whole sites online which are dedicated only to animated GIFS and a slew of new software which make creating them very easy.

Explore animated GIFs and resources to create and download them.

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Tagged as: Animated GIFs, Clip Media, PowerPoint, Resources

Lock and Unlock Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

When most people use Motion Path animations, the feature they probably use the least is locking and unlocking the Motion Paths. That may be because these options are not too well documented. But that’s no reason to ignore this option. Especially, since locking and unlocking Motion Paths can help you create better animations.

Learn to lock and unlock motion paths in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, Microsoft Windows, Motion Path, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Slide Layouts within Slide Master View in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

While changing the Slide Layout for any given slide(s) in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, you typically access the Home tab of the Ribbon and click the Layout button. This brings forth the Layout drop-down gallery. The number of Slide Layouts that you see within this gallery may differ depending upon the Theme of your active presentation. However, with PowerPoint’s default Office Theme applied, you may see 11 layouts. So, where do these Slide Layouts come from? What influences how they look, or how the placeholders within them are laid out? To find out answers to these questions, you need to access Slide Master view within PowerPoint.

Explore Slide Layouts within Slide Master view in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Slide Layouts, Slide Master View, Tutorials