There are many different ways to enhance your presentations to make them more engaging for your students, including transitions and animations. One particular transition, the morph transition in PowerPoint, will give you a smooth animation for objects on your slide when moving from one slide to the next. In the same way, the Enhanced Morph will smoothly transform one shape into another.
These morph transitions work for any images, objects, or shapes you have on your slides!
Plus, when used correctly, these visual cue, morph transitions can help your students connect to the information and follow more clearly along, which can help them recall the information later. To learn how to use morph and enhanced morph in PowerPoint, watch the video or follow along the blog with our Metamorphosis – morph example!
How to Use Morph Transition in PowerPoint
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Add object you’d like to morph onto two slides
To use morph, first, you will need to have the same object, in a different location, on different slides. In our example, you can see we have a green rectangle shape at the top of each slide in a different location, which will morph transition as a live progress bar.
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Click Morph in Transition tab
Next, click on the shape or image that you want to apply the morph transition to. From there, just go to the Transitions tab in the top ribbon, and click Morph. Continue to do this for all the shapes in your presentation that you want. In our case, we will do this for all of the green rectangles on the other slides.
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Watch your object do a morph transition in presentation mode
Then, start your presentation to test it out! You should see a smooth shift between the shapes instead of the simple jump. For using this transition on shapes or images that are not duplicates of each other, you will have to use enhanced morph.
If you have different shapes you want to apply Morph transition too, you can! Just use the Enhanced Morph steps.
How to Use the Enhanced Morph Transition
The enhanced morph transition is very similar to the regular morph transition; we just need to add an extra step: renaming the images. Here’s how to do a morph transition for two different objects:
1. Add 2 different objects you’d like to morph onto two slides
First, ensure that you have different images, shapes, or objects on each slide that you want to add the transition to. If you apply the regular morph transition on these different objects, you will see a quick fade in and out, instead of the smooth morph transformation we saw previously.
2. Rename objects in Selection Pane inside Format tab
To morph transition different images, for this example, you need to rename them to match each other and add “!!” to the name. Click on an image on your slide, open the Format tab, and underneath the Arrange category, click open the Selection Pane. Here, you can rename the image or object to whatever you’d like, as long as it matches the second image.
Then add two exclamation points before the name you gave your objects. So we will rename our images “!!img”. This is an important step.
Then, make sure you rename your second object in the Selection Pane the same name beginning with “!!”.
3. Click Morph in Transition tab
After all the images are renamed with exclamation points, you can add the morph transition from the Transitions tab in the PowerPoint ribbon.
4. Watch your objects morph in Presentation mode!
And you’re done! Test it out in presentation mode or with the preview button on the Transitions tab. You should see the images morph into each other, instead of a quick jump or slow fade. Now you know how to transform your PowerPoint presentations with some new transitions!
Interested in more PowerPoint interactive tricks?
Try freely moving your slide objects around with Draggable Objects
Using the free PowerPoint add-in ClassPoint, you can now move any text, shape, or image around your slide during presentation mode with Draggable Objects. This dynamic tool can be used to create interactive learning material to engage and help explain complex concepts with flexibility and it can be used as a class activity to practice recall & test understanding!
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