When changing focus from one point to another in PowerPoint, use morph to add a bit of highlighting fun.
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Focusing on a point is the foundation of every PowerPoint presentation. Fortunately, PowerPoint supports dozens of ways to do so. With the addition of the PowerPoint morph transition, you have another choice that might not be as obvious: using morph to highlight important details. Doing so requires a bit of knowledge about the morph technique and how to crop pictures, but it’s easy. In this article, I’ll show you how to combine cropped figures and the morph technique to highlight parts of a larger picture.
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I’m using Microsoft 365 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use earlier versions; morph was added to PowerPoint 2016. It’s also available in PowerPoint for the web, iPad, iPhone and Android tablets and phones for PowerPoint. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration .pptx file.
About morph in PowerPoint
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PowerPoint’s morph transition visually connects two slides, and you can use this transition in many ways:
- To create motion
- To zoom in and out, or highlight
- Change one shape to another
Morphing allows you to combine common options, such as movement, size, rotation and color, at the same time to change the original slide into the second. It’s easy to use, but you can’t manipulate how PowerPoint actually shapes the movement from the first to the second slide. That sounds funny—shapes the movement—but it will make sense when you see it in action.
Morph requires, always, two slides: the first slide, where the morph begins and a second, where the morph ends. So, you set up the two slides, select them, and then apply the morph transition. For a simple use, you might change a square into a circle, or pull together letters to complete a message, as shown in How to use PowerPoint 2016’s stunning new Morph transition.
A less obvious use is to highlight specific areas of a slide. In this case, the first slide is the full picture, and the second slide is the cropped highlight. By combining the two with a morph transition, the full picture will seem to change into the cropped area.
The two PowerPoint slides
The morph transition requires two slides. In our case, the slides will both start with the picture shown in Figure A. This picture is part of 365’s stock images, so copyright isn’t an issue. To insert the picture into a blank slide, do the following:
- Click the Insert tab.
- Click Pictures in the Images group and choose Stock Images from the dropdown.
- In the resulting window, click Image, and enter owl in the search control.
- Click the picture shown in Figure A, and then click Insert.
Figure A
We’ll use this picture as the first slide in the morph transition.
Figure B
Choose a picture to insert.
Inserting the picture will open the design pane (for 365 users). The first suggestion will be to fill the entire slide with the picture. Click it to do so. If you don’t …….
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