Looking to spice up your Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 presentation? You can add animated transitions to slides. Instead of information merely appearing onscreen, it can come in via a checkerboard effect, as if it were opened through blinds, faded onscreen, and more.

Animation can bring focus to a particular slide, but use it sparingly! Too much animation will annoy or bore the presentation viewers.

1. Select a slide or slides to which you want animation to be applied.

2. Select "Slide Show" - "Slide Transition".

From here you have many options from which to choose, including:

* Click on a slide effect underneath "Apply to selected slides" to choose said effect. If the "AutoPreview" checkbox is enabled, you will immediately see a preview of the effect.

* Next to the "Speed" pull-down select how fast you wish the effect to occur.

* Next to the "Sound" pull-down you can select a sound to play while the animation occurs. Scroll down to the end and choose "Other Sound" to play a .WAV file of your choice.

* If you're sure it won't bother the presentation viewers, click "Look until next sound". The selected sound will then play continuously until the end of the slide show or until another sound is played.

* If you wish the animated effect to apply to all slides and not just the selected ones, click "Apply to All Slides".

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