Learn how to animate or make text, images, or objects appear one by one in PowerPoint with a click, using a custom animation effect.

PowerPoint does much more than just display text and pictures. It's filled with tricks and tidbits so you can do nearly anything, like create a scrollable text box.

In PowerPoint 2007 -- and PowerPoint 2010 -- the animation effects are all located on the Animation tab in the Office ribbon. To make text fly in, you simply need to select the text and choose ...