Underwhelmed by the built-in slide transitions in PowerPoint? Or just completely baffled? PowerPoint has almost 50 transitions to choose from. A few of them are tasteful, like the classic Fade or a personal favourite—Push. But many of them are rather strange; the famous Origami folds your slide into a paper crane which turns out to be living and flies off screen, revealing the next slide and distracting your audience for the next few minutes as they ponder your poor transition choices instead of your stellar content.
In our last article on slide transitions in romanian phone numbers PowerPoint we may have mentioned (once or twice) that the options native to PowerPoint leave something to be desired. Our last post showed you how to use PowerPoint shapes to create dynamic, professional slide transitions that don’t look PowerPoint-y. This post shows you how to use the versatile Boolean tools to create a title slide transition with impact.
And, even better, this transition trick doesn’t rely on Morph, so it’s accessible whether you use Office 365 or not. Let’s get started!
Start by inserting your title text onto the slide. Use a chunky sans serif font. Some good options are Franklin Gothic, Impact, Bebas or Din – but you can use whatever font looks the coolest! Place your text bang in the centre of the slide for maximum impact. To do this click the text box, head to the Shape Format tab, then click Align > Align Centre and Align Middle.
Top tip: This effect works best with short titles, the fewer words the better.
Next, create a background by inserting a rectangle behind your text. It doesn’t matter what colour it is at the moment. Make sure the rectangle fills the entire slide. If you have our free PowerPoint add-in BrightSlide installed simply insert the shape and click Match size – the rectangle will resize to match the slide. Then push the rectangle behind the text – right click and select Send to back.
You can now use the text to punch a hole in the rectangle. Select the shape, then your text (this order is important), and navigate to the Boolean tools in the Shape Format tab. Select Subtract (Shape Format > Merge Shapes > Subtract).
This step won’t work if your text box has any fill colour, so make sure it’s set to No fill.