Your PowerPoint presentation should go into Presentation mode with the subtitles showing in a window at the bottom of the screen. The first slide of the PowerPoint will display the conversation and QR code for audience members to follow along in the language of their choice using the Microsoft Translator app on their chosen device.
After you apply an animation to an object on your slide made with PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, you can use PowerPoint’s Animation Options group on the Animations tab. Each effect comes with its own collection of options from which to choose. Animation Options can’t be applied until you have applied at least one animation, be it either entrance, emphasis, exit, or Motion Path.
Each effect comes with a collection of options that you can use to customize the effect’s animation. After you’ve applied an animation effect, you can adjust its animation options.
Activating animation options in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
To apply animation effect options, you can use the Ribbon or the Toolbox.
To use the Ribbon to apply an animation effect, follow these steps:
- Click the Animations tab of the Ribbon.
- Click a number associated with an animation (this is typically on the slide itself) or select the line of a motion path animation.
- In the Animation Options group, you can choose individual effect options, change the start event, and change the duration of the animation effects in seconds.
To use the Toolbox to apply an animation effect, follow these steps:
- Click Toolbox on the Standard toolbar.
- Select the Custom Animation tab in the Toolbox.
- Select an animation from the list in the Toolbox.
- Click disclosure triangles at the bottom of the Toolbox to display more options.
Choosing Start options for PowerPoint animations
All effects have these same three Start options, sometimes referred to as animation events because they determine when an effect will start playing:
- On Click: When chosen, PowerPoint waits for you to click the mouse button before starting the animation when the slide show is running. On Click is the default setting when you add a new animation to a slide.
- With Previous: When With Previous is chosen, the animation plays simultaneously with the previous animation in the list in the Animation Order section of the Custom Animation tab of the Toolbox, or as indicated with numbers in Normal view when the Animations tab of the Ribbon has been chosen.
- After Previous: This option tells PowerPoint to wait until the previous animation has completed before automatically starting the selected animation.
You can chain many animations together so that they play all at the same time. If you want all the animations to play without having to click the mouse, the first animation in the list should be With Previous or After Previous.
Whether you’re looking to spruce up an internal presentation and impress Mark over in management, or looking to taunt that one employee who never fills the coffee machine, incorporating custom typography is a powerful tool for bringing any piece of text to life. Luckily for us Mac users, the good folks at Apple have made the process of importing custom fonts a straightforward process.
Selecting a font you like to use.
For better or worse, there is an overwhelming choice of fonts out there on the internet. You’ll have to choose depending on your project or presentation, what suits your theme and what message you’d like to convey.
Different fonts portray different personalities which are appropriate in various situations. Old style serif fonts feel formal and professional while sans-serif fonts feel modern and clean.
We’ve written a whole article on font choices in Powerpoint, but to give you an overview, take the following guide for a baseline.
Calibri, Times New Roman, and Verdana are considered conservative fonts, bringing out a trustworthy and stable image which some deem to be boring.
Brush Script have a warm and feminine effect but don’t seem to inspire confidence.
Courier New and Stencil reflect a cold, unattractive and unemotional setting.
Impact font reveals a strong, solid, masculine and forceful image, though is overused.
Jokerman are exciting, extravagant but also immature and sometimes tacky.
But hold your horses, these are pretty familiar, standard fonts. Luckily we have access to hundreds of thousands of free fonts.
Finding a custom font
Let’s go ahead and use 1001fonts.com
Once we’ve chosen the font we want to use, go ahead and click the green download button on the right.
Installing a custom font in Mac
The single font is downloaded to your computer as a single file or in a compressed folder.
If it is compressed extract it.
Double-click the font file to open the Font Book application. The font displays in a window, providing a preview of what it will look like in PowerPoint.
Select Install Font
And now it’s installed, head over to PowerPoint (making sure to restart the program) and click the “Format” tab.
Click the “Font” drop-down menu and select the installed font to use it in your PowerPoint presentation.