Tip and Tricks #01: Take your text for a spin
Hello folks,
Zoho Show's all-new, clear, contextual interface was a great update to an already great product, so we thought you might appreciate some help putting it to good use.
Following this release, the Zoho Show Community is happy to launch Tips and Tricks, a biweekly activity series that focuses on hidden features and topics frequently asked by our users. We urge you not only to try them and let us know if they helped but also tell us what else you'd like addressed in the future.
So, let's quickly start off with our first edition of the series, to help you create, design, and deliver effective presentations with Zoho Show.
Tip #1: Take your text for a spin
Sometimes you might want to explain a step-by-step procedure, or highlight a paragraph or quote on a slide. To make your point clearer, or draw your viewers' attention to key areas during a slideshow, we're giving you this simple tip to make your text whirl, twist, and turn— Animating text by letter and words .
Follow these steps to implement this cool little trick in your own presentations:
Select the placeholder containing the text.
Click ANIMATE mode at the top right and apply an animation effect you like.
Select the effect, choose All Paragraphs at Once from the Animate dropdown.
Select By Word or By Letter from the drop down menu.
Adjust the duration, direction, and other customization options from the Animation Order pane.
Finally, click Preview
at the top to see the effect in action.
Easy, right?
To learn more about Zoho Show text animations, click here.
We hope this was useful, and gets you experimenting and playing around with your own effects in Zoho Show. Click Follow to make sure you're notified of all the tips we have for you in the upcoming days.
Before we go, here's a hint for our next installment. Have a bulleted list with nested levels? Did you know you can play them level by level? To see how, stay tuned!
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