PowerPoint Entrance and Exit Effects for Great Animation

Want to make PowerPoint presentations that can make a lasting impression on the audience? Animation can be the answer!

PowerPoint has several types of animations: Entrance, Exit, Emphasis, and Motion Paths. These animations engage the viewers and put emphasis on certain texts, images, or other elements. As a result, if your presentation is looking a little bit boring, some animations can help bring it to life.

Here is a short guide on how you can use Microsoft PowerPoint entrance and exit effects for great animations.

PowerPoint Entrance Animations

Entrance animations control how something appears on your slide. For example, if you add an entrance animation to a certain text, it will follow the animation when arriving at the screen.

Here are the different types of entrance animations available in PowerPoint as of now with their descriptions:

Effect	Description
Appear	Flashes in quickly without additional effects
Fade	Gradually fades in
Fly-in	Flies in from one of eight directions
Float in	Floats in from above or below
Split	Splits from the edges towards the centre
Wipe	Wipes in from a specified direction
Shape	Fills in from the edges of a specified shape and appears
Wheel	Rotates around a central hub and gradually appears
Random Bars	Appears from behind bars that turn and disappear
Grow & Turn	Spins forward into view from a distance
Zoom	Zooms in from outside the slide area
Swivel	Appears as it swivels around a central point
Bounce	Bounces onto the slide before settling

PowerPoint Exit Effects

Exit animations, on the other hand, control how a text or an object in a presentation exits from a slide. They can give the audience an understanding of the fact that you have finished talking about a certain topic.

Here are the different types of exit animations available in PowerPoint as of now with their descriptions:

Effect	Description
Disappear	Instantly removes the object from the view
Fade	Gradually fades away
Fly Out	Flies away in a specific direction
Float Out	Floats out in a specific direction
Split	Splits from the centre to the edges
Wipe	Wiped away from a specific direction
Shape	Disappears as a specified shape overlays it
Wheel	Rotates around a central hub and gradually disappears
Random Bars	Disappear behind bars that turn and disappear
Shrink & Turn	Shrinks and spins into the background where it disappears
Zoom	Zooms into the distance and disappears
Swivel	Swivels around a central point and disappears
Bounce	Bounces out of the view into the lower-right corner

How to Add Entrance and Exit Animations in PowerPoint

Adding an entrance or an exit animation to a text or an object is pretty easy. The animation tab is available on the ribbon on top and you can pick any one of them of your choosing.

PowerPoint Animations tab

Here is how to add animations to a text or an object in your presentation:

Select the text or the object – it could be images or videos in PowerPoint
Head over to the “Animations” tab on the top ribbon
Select any animation from the top

Pretty simple, right? Well, there is more to customising animations than these simple steps. You can control every aspect of animations in PowerPoint, from their timings to shape. To learn these advanced methods, check out Sikkhon’s expert courses on PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office products.