How to Hide an Object Before Animation in PowerPoint
By Ryan Menezes
When you apply an entrance animation effect to a business presentation, PowerPoint hides the selected object until the animation runs. With other animation effects, the object remains visible beforehand, which may act contrary to your goals. For example, if you use the "pulse" animation to introduce a product photo to the slide, you must take an additional step to convert this emphasis effect to an entrance effect. You can hide the object before the animation by combining the animation with an "appear" effect.
Open your PowerPoint presentation. Click "Animations" in the PowerPoint ribbon and click "Animation Pane" in the Advanced Animation group.
Click your object and click "Add Animation" in the Advanced Animation group.
Click "Appear" in the menu's Entrance section.
Click the "Appear" effect in the Animation Pane and drag it above the object's original animation.
Click your original animation effect in the Animation Pane and click the "Start" drop-down box in the ribbon's Timing group. Click "With Previous" in the drop-down menu.
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Ryan Menezes is a professional writer and blogger. He has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University and has written for the American Civil Liberties Union, the marketing firm InSegment and the project management service Assembla. He is also a member of Mensa and the American Parliamentary Debate Association.