How to make a presentation with triggers

A trigger in PowerPoint refers to a special tool that creates a hotkey that triggers video, audio, or animation effects. With a single mouse click, you can activate the movement of a specific element on the slide according to a certain scenario.

How to make a presentation with triggers in PowerPoint?

Let’s talk about a practical example of how to prepare a trigger in PowerPoint. Let’s make a tooltip – a box with the initials and last name of the author, so that when you click on the picture, a text object will pop up.

Let’s follow the step-by-step instructions:

Step 1: Prepare a blank slide in PowerPoint

Open Microsoft PowerPoint on your device and create a blank slide using the standard form in the Insert window. The first document will appear on the screen with the “Title” and “Subtitle” fields. To make it more convenient to work with the slide, delete them to get an empty workspace. Next, point the cursor at the empty space of the slide, right-click on it and go to the “Layout” and “New Slide” menu.

Step 2: Add an animation picture to the slide

Now our task is to add a picture for animation. Here we need to proceed according to the following scheme.
1. Click on the “Insert” window.
2. In the “Image” menu, find the “Pictures” key.

Next you should find the desired file, select it and click on “Insert”. If it is important for you to add several drawings at the same time, you should select the necessary files by holding down the CTRL button.

Step 3: Add tooltips

In this case, you should click on the menu “Insert” – “Shapes” – “Cues”.

Step 4. Prepare animation

For this purpose, you need to select the figure with text, select the “Animations” – “Add animation” – “Appearance” window.

Step 5. Customize the trigger

In the next step, you need to select the tooltip, in the “Animation area” section, specify “Trigger” – “On Click”.

For the second tooltip you can use a similar principle, only specify a different picture.
You can use the same scheme to put triggers on other objects, drawings, inscriptions, video and audio effects. With the help of triggers, you can significantly pump up your slideshow and bring it to a new level.

Read also: Basics of working with PowerPoint

How to showcase your interactive presentation to other people

If you managed to create a cool PowerPoint presentation and now you want to share it, you can use the following methods to do so:

1. Short links. Simply upload the file to cloud storage and use a short link generator to create a shortcut link.
   2. Email. You can send the presentation in an email newsletter by getting an email address in advance.
   3. Social media. A handy method to post presentations.

Thus, triggers in PowerPoint are a powerful and effective tool to transform presentations and improve their visual component.