Change, remove or turn off animation effects
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In PowerPoint, you can change one animation effect applied to an object for another, modify the settings for an animation, or remove the animation from the object.

Change an animation effect

  1. Select the object that has the animation effect that you want to change.

  2. On the Animations tab, select the new animation that you want.

    Choose an animation

Remove one animation effect

You can remove animation effects that you previously applied to text or objects (such as pictures, shapes, SmartArt graphics, and so on).

Note: If you're looking for information on removing a transition effect from an entire slide, see Add, change, or remove transitions between slides.

  1. On the Animations tab, select Animation Pane.

    Open the Animation Pane

  2. On the slide, select the animated object that you want to remove the effect from.

    Tip: All of the effects applied to that object are highlighted in the Animation Pane.

  3. In the Animation Pane, select the effect you want to remove, select the down arrow, and then select Remove.

    Remove an animation effect

Remove more than one or remove all animation effects

  • To remove more than one animation effect from text or an object, in the Animation Pane, press Ctrl, click each animation effect that you want to remove, and then press Delete.

  • To remove all animation effects from text or an object, click the object that you want to stop animating. Then, on the Animations tab, in the gallery of animation effects, click None.

    In Animation gallery, click None

Turn off all animations in a presentation

Although you can't remove all animations from an entire presentation in one step (you have to remove animations from each object individually, as described above), you can disable all animations in your presentation.

  1. On the Slide Show tab, select Set Up Slide Show.

  2. Under Show options, select Show without animation.

See also

Animate text or objects

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