June is Hacking PowerPoint
Welcome to June 2018! This month we are having lots of fun geeking out on tweaks and hacks that can be done in PowerPoint!
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It’s A Bright Pink World Full of Animation!
Sometimes a presentation project is just all about the animation. In this case we were tasked with developing a 2+ minute motion graphics video to be used as a meeting opener, a short segment is here for preview. We developed the video all in PowerPoint, exported to video with a music track. It is not the tool that creates bad, boring and bland presentations – PowerPoint is just a canvas, and can accomplish wonderful results in the hands of professional design team.
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User Navigation Demo Using Animation
This is a unique project: it’s not a true slide presentation, but a presentation demonstrating potential user navigation flow within a theoretical app. Because this is setup to be presented, we developed a 16×9 version of the app, used oversize icons and simplified much of the content so the audience has large, easy to track content. It was a presentation, but not a presentation of slides, but the content was revised to be the same size (aspect ratio) as slides… got it?
Here is the final motion graphic styling, all developed using PowerPoint.
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For reference, the above video is from 7 slides:
There is a combination of on-slide animation and Morph transition to achieve all motion graphic effects:
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Social Media Landscape
Sometimes animation has become too easy. For example, during a recent project, it took longer for the animation request to be explained than to develop. Two slides, move logos, crop and let morph do everything for us with these social media landscape slides.
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Map Pin Locations
Here is some more animation fun from another presentation project. The goal of this slide was to show national coverage (from the original 3 locations). The talking points were not specific to the locations, but on the positive corporate office growth. We knew there was time for a subtle animation of the map pin locations that filled some of the talk.
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The animation pane shows every line of text and every map marker, which were set in a 9 second animation.
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Nice Bar Chart
Often we create our own charts, not from the charting engine, but from shapes, text, and graphics. Of course, this is for highly visual presentations that we know are not going to rely on charts with data and can be adjusted for use in other presentations. So, this is as much about animation as slide content styling. Before the animation example, I want to show the design for the nice bar chart. Each bar is comprised of 4 graphic elements: red box with text top aligned, grey box with text bottom aligned, grey outline (no fill box), and a black line.
 
Here are the animated bar charts (sample video has 2 slides with visual bar charts, client content removed, and for example here only).
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Carousel Motion Effect
Using the same slides as the previous Morph transition, this version of the Carousel Motion Effect uses big bold photos, and includes a nice PowerPoint reflection styling.
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The animation in the video was completed on 7 slides, with no animation pane “animation.” Also included in the animation effect was the progress bar – equally easy to setup and animate with Morph.
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