How To Repeat Multiple Animations In Powerpoint

Looping PowerPoint animation sequences within a slide

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Published: 2015-02-24

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Setting the Scene

Animations in PowerPoint are a slap-up tool to convey letters when used carefuly with the content of your slides.

At that place are enough of animation furnishings and options, including a Repeat feature for private animation furnishings.

Simply what if you want to repeat (or loop) a sequence of animations? This can be useful when running unattended kiosk presentations and you want the animations of the slide or a subset of them to repeat automatically.

Y'all may think that this isn't possible, but information technology is, and strangely, by utilising the bookmark characteristic of sound.

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to continuously repeat the animation sequence beneath which has three shapes fading in afterward one some other and so later on a delay of one 2nd, fades out:

Building a Looping Slide

i. The outset matter to do is to create a silent audio file. Yous can practise this using Windows recorder or any number of third party audio apps. Simply disconnect or mute your mic earlier recording the required audio length. In this example, we recorded 10 seconds of silence. You tin can besides download the i nosotros used in this tutorial.

Silent-10-seconds--MP3-.txt

(change the extension to .mp3 as EE don't support MP3 uploads)

2. Next, insert your silent sound file into PowerPoint on the slide that you're animating and set information technology to Loop until Stopped and Hide During Show:

3. Now add Bookmarks to the sound file at intervals as per your desired sequence timing. And then, if we desire to do things at 1 second intervals, we add bookmarks at each 1 second. To add a bookmark, click on the playback time line and then in the PowerPoint ribbon, click the PLAYBACK tab and and so click Add Bookmark. Repeat at the interval times on the audio timeline.

4. With the bookmarks in place nosotros can now motility the animations from the master automated timeline to the interactive trigger-based timeline. Select all of the animations in the animation pane (to make this pane visible, hold down the Alt key and and then press A followed past C). In the ANIMATION tab, click Trigger followed by On Bookmark and select the desired bookmark. Nosotros're using Bookmark 1:

5. You tin can now run the slide testify and the blitheness sequence will repeat indefinitely until you leave the slide.

6. You can optionally move animations to other bookmarks for greater control:

The resulting video (which we have converted below to an animated GIF as EE don't support embedded videos) shows a couple of loops of the to a higher place setup in step 6.