So you have to give a talk to your boss and his entire team next week. You know what topics you want to cover and you’ve put together a simple PowerPoint slide deck to help the audience understand your concepts. Consider using animation to really make your presentation stand out.

Here are simple steps for using PowerPoint slide animation. The following instructions are for PowerPoint 2016, 2013, and 2010, and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365.

Open your PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the slide you want to apply animations to.

Select the item you want to animate.