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If you're not happy with the standard animations that come with PowerPoint you also have the ability to create some custom animations. Let's take a look at how those work, again those will apply to text and shapes, objects even smart art graphics. So what we're going to do is highlight the text, go to our animations tab on the ribbon, click custom animation and we're going to get the custom animation panel over to our right. And what we want to do is add an effect. That's our first starting point and we have four options. We can control the animation or add an effect if you will to how the text or the object enters the slide, we have several choices. What I would suggest doing here is clicking the more effects because then you're going to get a preview of how that's going to work, like so. You can also control or create an animation of text that is already on the slide, this doesn't control what happens to it, this just controls what happens to it once it's on the slide. So we have several options here, again the name gives you what this is all about. This is if you want to emphasis a particular object or text, OK and again you're going to get a preview of all of these, like so. We can also control an animation on how the text or object exits the slide and last but not least we can also move the text along the motion path and we can do that. If you notice over here we have a green dot and a red dot, let's work with the pentagon. The green dot indicates where the object will start on that shape and it will trace along this motion path and end at the red dot. So let's try that. And we can also do kind of a crazy bounce effect like so. So you can kind of see where this is going to lend itself to some creative use on your part when you're working with animation or a custom animation and once we've picked one. Let's go ahead and just work with a square we can control the path. We can reverse the direction, in this particular case we cannot edit points but if we want it to draw a path for the object to follow that is an option under our motion path of drawing a custom path using one of the tools we learned about in an earlier scene and we can control the speed with which our different elements will be animated. So for instance if I want to move that over there, that over there, and that over there, it's my first block of text, my first bullet point my second and my third. Let's see what that looks like, see everything moves kind of all over the place. Eh, doesn't work to well but you get the idea of what you can do when it comes to working with custom animations for text. We can also do this with shapes and let me just insert a shape here very quickly, let's work with an arrow. Again I'll go to my animations tab, click custom animations and add the effect of what I want to have happen on that particular shape. So again with animations use them to emphasize a point, not just see how clever you can be when it comes to playing with animations.