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How to create animations in PowerPoint 2016 Your presented data may be deathly boring but your presentation of it doesn't have to be. Animations can be used to bring a bit of life to your report. Let's face it, not everything you share will be tantalizing to keep the attention of your audience. Just as transition effects or images can complement the information, animations help to increase the "wow" factor. Here's how you can add animation effects to text, shapes, and images. How to add and remove animation effects in PowerPoint How to edit and manage animation effects in PowerPoint How to use motion path animation effects in PowerPoint Animation effects can be applied to text, shapes, and objects on any slide in PowerPoint 2016. When you explore the number of animation effects, you will notice that they are grouped into four types. Let's see what they are and how to use them. Entrance — This group of effects serves to introduce

Hyperlink Whenever you use the Internet, you use hyperlinks to navigate from one webpage to another. If you want to include a web address or email address in your PowerPoint presentation, you can choose to format it as a hyperlink so a person can easily click it. It's also possible to link to files and other slides within a presentation. About hyperlinks Hyperlinks have two basic parts: the address of the webpage, email address, or other location they are linking to, and the display text (which can also be a picture or a shape). For example, the address could be https://www.youtube.com, and YouTube could be the display text. In some cases, the display text might be the same as the address. When you're creating a hyperlink in PowerPoint, you'll be able to choose both the address and the display text or image. To insert a hyperlink: 1. Select the image or text you want to make a hyperlink. 2. Right-click the selected text or image

Mail merge using an Excel spreadsheet Mail merge is used to create multiple documents at once. These documents have identical layout, formatting, text, and graphics. Only specific sections of each document varies and is personalized. The documents Word can create with mail merge include bulk labels, letters, envelopes, and emails. There are three documents involved in the mail merge process: Your main document  Your data source  Your merged document Step 1: Prepare data in Excel for mail merge The most important step in the mail merge process is to set up and prepare your data. You'll use your Excel spreadsheet as the data source for the recipient list. Here are some tips to prepare your data for a mail merge. Make sure: 1. Column names in your spreadsheet match the field names you want to insert in your mail merge. For example, to address readers by their first name in your document, you'll need separate columns for first and last names. 2. All