When you’re giving a discussion, you want to keep your audience focused on one message at a time to avoid confusion. Dimming the text’s appearance that’s not being discussed can assist you achieve this objective. Here’s how in PowerPoint.
Open PowerPoint on your Windows PC or Mac and browse to the slide that consists of the text that you want to dim. In this example, we’ll utilize a slide with 5 bullet points.
Now, we require to give the text an entrance animation. Make sure to offer each point that you want to cover its own animation– do not organize them.
Highlight the text you wish to animate by clicking and dragging the cursor over the text.
Next, choose the “Animations” tab and pick your entryway animation from the “Animation” group.
You’ll know the animation has been effectively applied if you see a number appear beside the text.
Repeat these steps up until you have used an animation to all of the bullet points.
Open the Animation Pane by choosing “Animation Pane” in the “Advanced Animation” group of the “Animations” tab.
Select all of the animations by holding Ctrl on Windows or Command on Mac and clicking each animation. Click the arrow next to the right of the animations and select “Effect Options.”
The “Appear” window will emerge. In the “Effect” tab, you’ll notice “Don’t Dim” is selected by default beside the “After Animation” choice. Change this by clicking the arrow beside the product and choosing a color that’s a little bit various (but still comparable, as to not draw excessive attention) from the slide’s background. You can also pick “More Colors” if you don’t see your color in the commonly utilized group. In this example, we’ll use a light gray.
Select “OK” to conserve your modifications and proceed.
With the modifications applied, check out the presentation to make certain it works. You should have something that looks a bit like this.
That’s all there is to it!
Open PowerPoint on your Windows PC or Mac and navigate to the slide that contains the text that you want to dim. Now, we need to give the text an entrance animation. Select all of the animations by holding Ctrl on Windows or Command on Mac and clicking each animation. In the “Effect” tab, you’ll notice “Don’t Dim” is selected by default next to the “After Animation” choice.