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PowerPoint not only has many built-in animation effects, but also the option to create motion path animations.  With such an animation you can move one or more objects on a straight, curved, circular, free form or other path.  Use motion path animation in your interactive PowerPoint projects like presentations and e-learning courses to explain, for example, trends and concepts.

Here’s the step-by-step tutorial that illustrates, with screen shots, how to create a motion path animation in PowerPoint.  A feature of this tutorial is that it details how to move an object on a path at one of slow, medium and fast speeds, using an interactive slide.

Create motion path animation, and let user choose its speed, in PowerPoint

Download the above motion path animation PowerPoint source file from PowerPoint Tips and Tricks.

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PART I:  Step-by-Step Procedure to Create a Self- Running Path-based / Motion Path Animation in PowerPoint

1. Start PowerPoint.  Click View > Master > Slide Master to open the master slide

Click View > Master > Slide Master to open the master slide

If you’re new to the concept of PowerPoint master slides, read Why and How to Use Master Slides in PowerPoint?

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2. Press Ctrl+A to select and delete the default text.  Place the objects that appears on all slides, except the object(s) to be animated, on a master slide.  For this tutorial, I have placed the background of sky and mountains on the master slide.  Again, place the objects you want to animate on normal slides.

Place the objects that appears on most of the slides on the master slide, except the objects to animate

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3. Click View > Normal to return to the normal view.

 

Click View > Normal to return to normal mode

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4. Draw an object on a normal slide.  For this tutorial, I have drawn the trolley, with wood logs, placed on a track.  Further, I have grouped the objects into a single object.  To group objects, select all the objects and press Shift+Ctrl+G.

Draw the objects to animate on a normal slide

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5. Right-click the object, and from the context-sensitive menu, select Custom Animation.  The Custom Animation pane displays on the right.

Right-click the object to animate and select Custom Animation

The Custom Animation pane displays on the right

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6. Click Add Effect (shown highlighted in figure above).  From the menu that displays, select Motion Paths > Right (if you wish to move the object to the right on a straight path).  PowerPoint creates the path and animates the object.  The green and the red arrows indicate the starting and ending points of the motion path.

Click Add Effect > Motion Paths > Right

The green and red arrows indicate the starting and ending point of the animation respectively

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7. If you wish to shorten or extend the path, place the mouse cursor on the red arrow, and when the cursor shape changes, click the arrow.  Drag the circular handle to the left to decrease the length of the path or drag the handle to the right to increase the length.

Drag a circular handle to the left / right to increase / decrease the length of the motion path

TIP: To shorten or extend the length of the path in a straight line, hold the Shift key and drag the handle to the left or right.

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8. To specify when the motion path animation should start, in the Custom Animation pane, click the down arrow in the Start field and select an option:  For the Part I of this tutorial, I have set the Start field to With Previous.

Specify when the animation should play: On Click, With Previous or After Previous

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9. To adjust the speed of the animation, in the Custom Animation pane on the right, click the down-arrow in the Speed field and select a speed or accept default.

Select an animation speed in the Speed field

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10. To auto-reverse the animation path, in the Custom Animation pane, click the down-arrow next to the relevant group / shape number and select Effect Options.  A dialog displays.

Click Effect Options to auto-reverse the path of animation

The dialog that displays when you click the Effects Option

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11. Check the Auto-reverse checkbox and click OK.

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12. Test the animation:  Press F5 to run the slide show.

Press F5 to run the slide show

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PART II:  How to Interactively Set the Speed for a Motion Path Animation?

If you want to let the user choose the speed, for example, Slow, Medium and Fast, for the motion path animation, in one screen, then:

First, you’ve to duplicate the animation slides thrice, one each for the above three speeds.

Second, create three buttons on the master slide labeled, say Slow, Medium and Fast.

Third, create three “dummy” slides and place one each of these above one each of the three animation slides.  The “dummy” slides are essential to make the animation work correctly.

Last, link the three buttons, one each to one dummy slide.  For example, link the Slow button to the dummy slide just above the animation slide whose speed is set to Slow.

Here’s the step-by-step procedure to enable the user to choose the speed of animation:

1. Click the animation slide in the Slides pane (on the left) and press Ctrl+D twice and duplicate the animation slides.  Now you’ve three animation slides: original + two duplicates.

Duplicate the animation slide: press Ctrl+D twice

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2.  Click the first animation slide in the Slides pane.  In the design window, click the object you’ve animated and set the speed to Slow (if it’s not already set)  in the Speed field, by following Step 9 (Part I) above

Set the animation speed to Slow in the Speed field

Repeat the above step for the second and third animation slides, but set the Speed to Medium and Fast respectively.
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3. Create three dummy slides:  Copy the first animation slide in the slide pane by pressing Ctrl+c, position the cursor just above the first animation slide and paste the slide by pressing Ctrl+v. Remove the animation in the first dummy slide:  Select the object you’ve assigned an animation to and remove it by clicking Remove in the Custom Animation pane.   Repeat the preceding procedure for the second and third animation slide.

Three dummy slides and three animation slides displayed in the Slides pane

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4. Right-click on the first dummy slide and from the context-sensitive menu, select Slide Transition.

Right-click the first dummy slide and select Slide Transition

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5. In the Advance Slide frame in the Slide Transition pane on the right, check the Automatically after checkbox.  Uncheck the On mouse click checkbox (if not already unchecked).

Check the Automatically after checkbox and uncheck the On mouse click checkbox

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6. Repeat Step 4-5 for the second and third dummy slides.

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7. Click View > Master > Slide Master to view the master slide.
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8. Create the three buttons with the labels Slow, Medium and Fast.

Create three buttons labeled Slow, Medium and Fast on the master slide

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9. Right-click the Slow button and select Hyperlink from the context-sensitive menu.  The Insert Hyperlink dialog appears.

Right-click the Slow button and select Hyperlink from the context-sensitive menu

The Insert Hyperlink dialog

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10. Click the Place in this Document button.  Click the slide number of the first dummy slide below Slide Titles.  Repeat this Step for the Medium and Fast buttons, but click their respective dummy slide number.

Click Place in the Document > Slide

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11. Test the animation:  Press F5 to run the slide show.  Click each of the three buttons to test that the object moves at the set speed.

NOTE: With the above settings when you press F5 to run the slide show, the Slow animation runs by itself.  If you want PowerPoint to pause for the user to click one of the three buttons to run an animation:

Copy the first slide, by pressing Ctrl+c.  Click on a space above the first slide in the Slides pane and insert the slide, by pressing Ctrl+v.

Right-click the new slide, and from the context-sensitive menu select Slide Transition.

Check the On mouse click checkbox (if not already checked) in the Advance Slide frame

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