Revealing Text
Now that you’ve determined how much text is on a slide, you need to decide in what order and how quickly the audience should see the text. I prefer to have text build sequentially as I’m not sure why anyone would want the audience to jump ahead. Remember, if the audience can see your bullets, they know the points you’re going to make. They’ll get bored or agitated waiting for you to catch up with them.
If you choose to repeat an agenda slide in your presenta-tion to give the audience context, gray out previous text so they can visually jump to the current point.
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Don’t animate your text unless it adds value, meaning, or emotion to the content.