Animate chart elements in Microsoft Office PowerPoint
Updated: March 6, 2007
How-to article
Do you want to increase your students' attention to slide show presentations created in Microsoft Office PowerPoint?
Instead of creating charts that appear on the screen all at once during a slide show, students can animate the parts of a chart, making one bar or pie piece appear at a time for emphasis.
Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 to animate elements in a chart. Here's how:
Animate chart elements Create a spreadsheet and a chart to represent the data in the spreadsheet. For an example of how to create a pie chart using data gathered by students, see Favorite Authors.
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Select the chart, and then copy and paste it into a slide within a PowerPoint presentation.
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On the PowerPoint slide that contains the chart, do one of the following: Click Animation Effects (star). ―or— Click Toolbars, and then on the View menu, click Animation Effects.
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On the Animation Effects toolbar, click Custom Animation.
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Under Check to animate slide objects, select the elements of the chart you want to animate.
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In the Start animation area, choose whether you want the animation to start on mouse click or automatically.
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Click the Chart Effects tab. Select how you want to introduce chart elements: by Series, by Category, and so on. Note: If there is only one series of numbers, select by Category to make the bars or pie pieces appear one at a time.
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Under Entry animation and sound, select the effects you want, for example, Wipe, Up, and Laser.
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To see how the animation will look, click Preview.
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When you have all the options set the way you want them, click OK. View the slide show to see the chart's cool animation effects. Remember, if you selected On mouse click on the Order & Timing tab, you'll have to click your mouse button.
