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What is a build? Another word for an animation? Web searches just throw up guides to making a presentation. Edit: Found it. A build is a type of animation that
by moreati 6y ago
What is a build? Another word for an animation? Web searches just throw up guides to making a presentation.
Edit: Found it. A build is a type of animation that builds up a slide in multiple steps, e.g. revealing steps of a flow in sequence https://www.techrepublic.com/article/creating-animated-build-slides-in-powerpoint-2002/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/creating-animated-build...
- WWWWH 6y agoIt’s jargon. I think of it as animations are a subset of builds.
- gav 6y agoBuilds are ways of trying to avoid the audience reading ahead and getting to the conclusion before you've told the story yourself. For example, if you were explaining your business plan that had three steps: Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit Your audience isn't going to be giving you their full attention while you walk them through Phase 1, because they've trying to understand the whole process think through it themselves. Instead a build would use animations or duplicated slides to present this flow: Phase 1: Collect underpants. (click) Phase 2: ? (click) Phase 3: Profit Now you are controlling the visibility of each step. It's very quick to author: create one slide, duplicate it twice, delete content off those two slides. The slides should be there to reinforce your point. You shouldn't be showing a slide and then reading over the content. It's one reason that some of my decks have a lot of slides, some may only be shown for 5-15 seconds.