How to animate spaceships

How to make a spaceship fly!
Animation with PowerPoint
Jacqui Sharp 2010

Find a background picture
Drag the corners of the photo until it fills the whole slide.

Find a rocket or spaceship graphic or draw one in Paint or Artrage
Place the rocket at the bottom of the page.
If there are flames at the bottom of the rocket hide them
By dragging the graphic off the slide a bit.

If your rocket or spaceship graphic has a white background then…
You will need to remove it by clicking on the Transparent button
PowerPoint 2003
Click on Graphic, if picture menu is not there then go to View –Toolbars –Picture. Click on Transparent button.
Click on White part of graphic.
PowerPoint 2007
Click on Graphic, click on Format tab. Click on Recolor button. Click on Set Transparent Color button.
Click on White part of graphic.

You need to make the slide smaller so that you can use the space outside the slide for objects to fly in!
Office 2003
Click on the Zoom button to make the screen smaller
Office 2007
Drag the Zoom slider to make the screen smaller

Now Animate!Click on the graphic!
PowerPoint 2003
To animate the rocket
Go to Slideshow -Custom Animation
Click on Add an Effect -Motion Paths – Draw Custom Path – and then line or curve
PowerPoint 2007
Animations tab, click on No Animation arrow and select Custom Animation

Click and drag a path from the bottom of the rocket to off the screen.
You need to drag the motion path right off the slide so that the object will disappear off the slide.
Click on the Slideshow button,
then click to make the object animate.

Duplicate the first slide
Click on the rocket
Click once on the arrow up key
Duplicate that slide
Click on the rocket
Click once on the arrow up key
Click and drag slightly on the green Rotate button
Repeat!

Resources
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How to animate spaceships

by Jacqui Sharp on Aug 11, 2010

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