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Animating a slide show

Custom animations

Impress has custom animations that are equivalent to custom animations in PowerPoint. Applying animations in Impress is very similar to PowerPoint.

In OOo 2.0 the terminology for animations has changed. What were Effects in OOo 1.1.x are now called Custom Animations in OOo 2.0.

To access custom animations select either Slide Show > Custom Animation or click on the words Custom Animation in the task pane.

To add an animation, select the object to be animated and then click Add. A dialog box, shown in Figure 2, appears.

OOo Impress 2.0 now has a task pane. From the task pane many of the common formatting options can be accesseds: Master Pages (Slide Designs in PowerPoint), Layouts, Custom Animation, and Slide Transition.

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You can choose between Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Paths effects. If you scroll down the list you will find Basic, Moderate, Exciting, and Special as categories effects.

Differences in animation effects

On export or import of either Impress or PowerPoint files the names of the effects change. However, the result and appearance are essentially the same. See Table 2.

In OOo Impress 2.0, you can have multiple animation types in one text box. In OOo Impress 1.1.x, you were limited to only one animation type per text box.

Table 2. Comparison of animation effects names between PowerPoint and Impress.

PowerPoint	Impress
Appear	Appear
Blinds	Venetian Blinds
Box	Box
Checkerboard	Checkerboard
Diamond	Diamond
Crawl	Fly In Slow
Dissolve	Dissolve
Flash once	Flash Once
Peek	Peek
Random Bars	Random Bars
Spiral	Spiral In
Split	Split
Stretch	Stretchy
Strips	Diagonal Squares
Swivel	Swivel
Wipe	Wipe
Zoom	Zoom
Random effects	Random Effects

Slide transition effects

In the same way that object animations have a mapping between PowerPoint and Impress, slide transitions also have different names between the programs as summarized in Table 3.

Table 3. Comparison of slide transition names between PowerPoint and Impress.

PowerPoint	Impress
Blinds Horizontal	Venetian Blinds Horizontal
Blind Vertical	Venetian Blinds Vertical
Box In	Box In
Box Out	Box Out
Checkerboard Across	Checkerboard Down
Checkerboard Down	Checkerboard Across
Cover Down	Cover Down
Cover Left	Cover Right
Cover Right	Cover Left
Cover Up	Cover Up
Cover Left Down	Cover Left Down
Cover Right Down	Cover Right Down
Cover Left Up	Cover Left Up
Cover Right Up	Cover Right Up
Cut	No equivalent transition
Cut through Black	No equivalent transition
Dissolve**	Dissolve
Fade Through Black	Fade Through Black
Random Bars Horizontally	Random Bars Horizontal
Random Bars Vertically	Random Bars Vertical
Split Vertical In	Split Vertical In
Split Vertical Out	Split Vertical Out
Strips Left Down	Random Bars Vertical
Strips Left Up	Random Bars Vertical
Strips Right Down	Random Bars Vertical
Strips Right Up	Random Bars Vertical
Uncover Down	Uncover Down
Uncover Left	Uncover Left
Push Right	Push Right

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