PowerPoint animations for beginners

Animations are a cool way to prep up your presentations slideshows, let's see how to use them.

Let's say we have a slide where we want to connect two elements with two arrows, but we want them to appear one after another.

In my case, I want an arrow on the left pointing from Dreevoo logo to the People and then second arrow appears, pointing from the People to the Dreevoo logo.

In the menu click Insert and then Shapes.

Choose a shape you want to animate.

I chose the Curved Right Arrow.

Click and drag to create the shape.

In the menu click Animations.

Choose the animation you like.

I like to keep my animations clean so I'm going to choose Zoom.

First animation is now done.

I need the second arrow so I'm just going to copy the one I already have.

Right click the arrow and choose Copy.

Press Ctrl + V to paste the arrow and move it the right spot.

The arrow is pointing to the wrong direction, so I need to rotate it.

Click the little green circle and rotate it so it points to the right direction - Dreevoo logo in my case  (see picture).

Now again click Animations and choose the animation you like.

The second animation is added.

You can see the little numbers next to objects. They represent the order of appearance. In my case I have number 1 on the left, that means the left arrow will appear first and right after the arrow on the right with a number 2.

If I run my slideshow, the first slide looks like this...

...then the left arrow with the Zoom animations effect appears...

...and the second arrow.

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