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Animations are a great way to show a list of bullet points on a slide one at a time. You can choose to click once for each bullet point, or have each point automatically appear after a short delay.

Show each bullet point with a click

  1. Select the text box that contains the slides you want to animate.

    Select the text box with the bullets you want to animate
  2. Click the Animations tab, and then choose a motion effect like Appear or Fly In.

    Choose one of the motion options to animate text or an object
  3. The slide displays the animation sequence in a box to the left of each point.

    Each bullet in the list show the order of animations in a small box to the left
  4. Select Slide Show Click the picture of a computer screen in the status bar to see the slide show on the status bar to preview your animation.

Show each bullet point after a delay

  1. Select all the bullet points you want to animate, click the Animations tab, and then choose a motion effect like Appear or Dissolve In.

    Select all the bullets on the slide and choose a motion animation effect
  2. In the Animations pane, select the second animation in the list.

    The second animated bullet point is selected
  3. Under Timing, change the Start setting to After Previous, and then enter the amount of time you want to delay between each bullet point.

    Display bullet points automatically by setting timing to After previous and specifying a delay
  4. Apply the same Start and Delay settings to the remaining bullet points in the list.

  5. Click the first animation, and then click Play From to preview the result.

See Also

Animate or make words appear one line at a time

Change or remove animation effects

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