You can create visual effects when you add animations to text, images, slides and other objects in Google Slides. You can also animate lists, one click at a time, as you present.
Animate text or images
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Click the text or image that you want to animate.
- Click Insert Animation.
Add slide transitions
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- On the left, click the slide you want to transition to.
- Click Slide Change transition.
Change animations and transitions
When you add new animations, they are automatically set to 'fade in'. You can change transitions and animations in the panel on the right.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Click View Animations.
- Click the animation that you want to change.
- To change the speed of the animation, drag the slider.
- To animate lists one line at a time, tick the box next to 'By paragraph'.
Note: Not all animations will work when viewing the presentation in some browsers.