A transition is how PowerPoint gets from one slide to the next during an on-screen slide show. The normal way to segue from slide to slide is simply to cut to the new slide — effective, yes, but also boring. PowerPoint enables you to assign any of more than 50 different special effects to each slide transition. For example, you can have the next slide scoot over the top of the current slide from any direction, or you can have the current slide scoot off the screen in any direction to reveal the next slide. You can have slides fade out, dissolve into each other, open up like Venetian blinds, or spin in like spokes on a wheel.
To use a slide transition, follow these steps:
1. Move to the slide to which you want to apply the transition.
If you want to apply the animation scheme to all your slides, you can skip this step because it won't matter which slide you start from.