In this lesson, we're going to look at some of the features of PowerPoint that enhance the delivery of your presentation. These are the little touches that make your presentation stand apart from all the others. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to do slide transition. Now our golden rule of less is more is never more true than in this lesson. To be honest with you, I don't worry about slide transition too much. And in fact, most of the time, I don't even bother with it.

Slide transitions speaks to how one slide transitions to the next. And the default setting in PowerPoint, as one might expect is that one slide is just instantaneously replaced with the next, as if you're literally watching a slideshow. To some this might feel a little jaded, and perhaps you want to change the feel of the transition between the slides. This might be particularly helpful if you are transitioning to a new idea for instance. And to do this, you go to the transition menu in your ribbon You'll find all sorts of options for different transition formats. If I were to use a transition at all, most often it would be the fade transition.

As this has the effect of just softening the transition between slides, I can think of only one other time that I used a harder transition using a more accentuated effect. In this example, I was alternating between different Excel models for illustration purposes. Here, I wanted to alert my audience that I was transitioning between entirely different spreadsheets. So I went out of my way to include a very obvious transition that they were now looking at something entirely different. You can apply transitions to each slide, or you can click the button to apply to all as for the use of timing and sound effects, don't use them. Less is more and in the case of this lesson, I'm going to take my own advice and leave it at that