Well, here we are again with another Microsoft PowerPoint tip for you. In certain cases, PowerPoint presentations can be useful to more than just one group of people.

But what if you have already inserted some Custom Animation into the slides which wouldn’t be appropriate for the group that you will be presenting to the second time around? You will have to go through each slide to remove the animation right?

Wrong! With Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 there is a way to disable the Custom Animation without having to change anything else. Here is how you do it:

1. In the Microsoft Office ribbon, select the ‘Slideshow’ tab.

2. Select the Set up Slideshow button and wait for the ‘Set up Show’ dialog box to appear.

3. Once the dialog box appears, check the box which says ‘Show without animation’ in the ‘Show Options’ section and then click Ok.

4. To check that you have stopped the animation, press F5 to test your presentation out

It is as simple as that and takes literally no time so that you can spend more time getting ready to present the presentation itself.

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