Keep Your Audience Focused by Highlighting Bullet Points in PowerPoint

In this video, I'll show you how to keep your audience focused on your presentation, and the current point, by highlighting bullet points in Microsoft PowerPoint. Using contrast to highlight the current bullet point, while fading out the previous ones, is a more effective way to create PowerPoint presentations. It helps viewers focus and you to hold their attention for longer!
But PowerPoint doesn't highlight the current bullet point by default. I will show you how to modify PowerPoint's fade in animation to highlight the current bullet point and to dim all the previous ones. It's easy to do and it doesn't require any complex animation.
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[@shreyasraghatate6667]

Thanks a lot for making this. I searched for this a lot but couldn't find till now. Really helpful.

[@SavageGothamChess]

Great Animation tutorial Video. PowerPoint is my favorite and so are you.

[@RussellSmith]

Thanks for your support! 😊

[@jenniferbailey5914]

Thank you so much for this. So simple but yet effective. As a beginner to PP these tutorials are of paramount importance. 🙏

[@Satved]

Thank you very much for this video.

[@davidmae5492]

Thanks for this!

[@friluftslivforbegynnere1188]

Very helpful! I salute you Sir :)

[@dr.tranngocthien]

Thank you so much for this tip

[@yashiakodirekka172]

Great easy steps

[@RussellSmith]

Thank you 😊

[@aylorpaul39]

Hi Russell thanks really useful , but I'm struggling on how to fade something back in that I had previously faded out ( heading), so I selected the text box again and appeared at the bottom used all same steps but when it comes to the relevant part it doesn't fade it back in ?

[@reneelitfin3519]

Thank you for the tip. It works very well in the ppt app, but when I go to the online portal to open ppt, it doesn't work. Is there a way to correct this?

[@RussellSmith]

No problem. It maybe that this feature isn't available in the online version of PPT.

[@Ebersol_Inc]

Thanks for the quick and easy tut! What's the trick to getting the slide to advance to the next slide for click at the last active bullet? When the last bullet is "active" or highlighted, a click makes it "dim" (change color per the animation), then another click is required to advance to the next slide.

[@RussellSmith]

If you open the animations pane, you can control what happens on particular actions. Like for instance not waiting for a mouse click to advance to the next slide.

[@levitak]

Hi Russel. Firstly, thank you for the awesome tip! It is the 1st time I am making a PP presentation. I managed to do what you teach, but at the end however, I‘d like to have all the bullet points appear together in black (I have a black text in white background), but they appear in the end all together in grey. How could I change this?

[@RussellSmith]

No problem. Easiest way is to duplicate the slide and then in the duplicated version of the slide, remove all of the animations and set the text to black. Providing you don't move any of the on page elements around, it should achieve the desired effect. Maybe there's a more elegant solution, but without trying it myself, I don't know.

[@levitak]

@@RussellSmith thank you, I will try that out 😉👍🏼

[@RussellSmith]

@@levitak sorry it took me so long to reply.

[@levitak]

@@RussellSmith No problem, the trade show was cancelled due to covid. It is now happening next week and I am finalizing using your last suggestion 😉

[@brigwilson1154]

Wonderful video. Is there any way to do this in Google Slides?

[@RussellSmith]

Thanks Brig. Sorry, I've never used Google Slides so can't tell you.