Instead of clicking the sound media on this slide to play it, I can pull it off the slide, so it never appears, and set up a trigger to play it, namely this button shape. Triggers are useful for starting sound files and videos, which PowerPoint views as animation effects. I click Trigger, point to On Click of, and select Arrow 1, which is my arrow shape over here. In the Animation Pane, I select the effect, which activates the Trigger command. I’ll select the shape and apply a Wipe entrance effect. To set up a trigger, you first apply an animation effect to the thing you want to trigger.įor this slide, I want to trigger a text effect on this banner shape.
So, triggers let me specify click points for effects.įor example, I could make this text banner be a trigger also-starting a picture effect. In the first example, the effect starts only when I click an arrow, which is a trigger for the effect. Here is the sequence, again: Arrow 1 triggers the first text animation, which is a Wipe entrance effect.Īrrow 2 triggers the second effect, and Arrow 3 triggers the third.Ĭompare this with a typical list animation, where I click to play each effect, but I don’t click anything specific to do it. On this slide, each green arrow triggers a text effect when I click it. When you want to click something specific on the slide, like each arrow shape here, to start an animation effect, use a trigger.
