Last week I posted a simple video showing a couple of graphs that had a single (or couple) of series animated for emphasis. I thought this week I would post the how to! It’s actually very simple. You can download my PowerPoint here.
Adding an animation to a PowerPoint Chart is the same as adding an animation to any other object. Click on the chart, then click on “Animation” on the ribbon and choose the animation you want to add. (I chose “Wipe”). You can then adjust the options for the animation using the “Effects Options” button. Unfortunately when you add an animation it adds the animation to the whole chart – including the axes etc. To see this, while the chart is selected click on the “Animation Pane” button in the animations toolbar.
To be able to adjust the animation to the different elements of the chart, right click on the animation, and then select effect options > Chart animation.
To be able to animate the series individually, click on the down arrow on the right hand side of the text “As one object” and select “By Element in Series” or “By Series” depending on the configuration of the chart. I also deselected the “Start animation by drawing the chart background” check box. Then press the OK button.
A double down arrow will now appear in the animation pane underneath the animated chart.
Click the double down arrow to see the individually animated series.
My chart has 4 series, so there are four elements that have been animated. Since in my chart I want to emphasize series 3 and 4 only, I simply click on the ones I don’t want to see and press the delete key. You can then adjust the options of the 2 animated series so that they start together or individually as you prefer.
I adjusted my charts so that the animation starts as soon as the viewer navigates to the page (using the start with previous option) and so that both lines start together. You can do this using the down arrows next to each animation in the animation pane. Click on the down arrow and then select “Start with previous”.
And that’s it – hope you find it useful.
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Thank you!