Animation in PowerPoint

1.  Open up PowerPoint and create a new slideshow.  Insert a blank side from the dashboard (choose Home -> Slides -> New Slide) and delete the first, default title slide.   Paste your finalized graph from question 6 into your new blank slide.  Open another blank slide and insert the same graph on the second slide. YOUR GRAPH MUST BE PASTED FROM EXCEL!!  IF YOU PASTE IT FROM WORD - IT WILL NOT WORK!!

2.  On the second slide, go to Insert -> Shapes and choose a block arrow shape.  Draw the arrow on your graph pointing to your 2009 prediction. 

3.  Insert a third slide in PowerPoint.  This slide (slide 3) should contain the names of the members in your group.

4.  Animate the graph on slide one (the graph without the arrow). 

a)   Click on the "Animation" tab and choose custom animation. Select Add Effect followed by Entrance which can be found on the right side of the screen.  Choose any of these entrance options.  You can modify the speed and place of entrance here as well.

b)   Click on the drop down box on the right side of your screen which should be titled "1  Content Placeholder" Choose Effect Options.

                                       

c)   Next choose the Chart Animation tab. You will get a dialogue box that looks like: 

Usually animating by series is what you want.

5.  Try viewing your slide show.  The original data will appear first, then the data with the trendline, followed by your prediction and the last thing to appear will be the "arrow" pointing to your prediction.  

6.  Add some color to your slides.  Go to the "Design" tab and have some fun with themes and background colors.