Those slick presentations where an object seems to smoothly slide, resize or rotate between slides usually aren't built with manual animation at all.
They use a transition that compares two slides and calculates the movement between them automatically.
Here's the trick:
Morph doesn't animate objects — it recalculates the shape between two slides for you.
How to use it
- Duplicate a slide with Ctrl+D.
- On the duplicate, move, resize, or restyle an object — the same object, just in a different position or size.
- Select the second slide, go to Transitions, and choose Morph.
- Play the slideshow — PowerPoint animates the object smoothly between its two positions.
Where it helps most
Title reveals, zooming into part of a diagram, or making an object appear to travel across the slide without manually animating every step of the movement.
One thing to watch for
Morph matches objects with the same name or type between the two slides. Duplicating the slide, rather than rebuilding it from scratch, is what makes that matching reliable.
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