Line-by-line fade-in of text

One of the reasons that we love animation is that we can use it to control at what time a specific image or other piece of information will be revealed.

Often, you will have a list of subjects on your canvas that you would want to talk about one by one. In such cases, you may want to reveal one element at a time to help your audience focus on one subject at a time.

In this recipe, you can see how easy it is to set up animations so that listed text elements fade in one by one.

Getting ready

Creating a list in which bullets or subjects can be animated to appear one by one requires each bullet or subject on the list to be a separate text element.

Tip

Prezi's built in bulleted list creates bullets that are separate elements that share a textbox. However, as long as they are in the same textbox, you cannot animate the bullets individually. To create separate textboxes, drag each bullet out of the original textbox and re-arrange the bullets to your liking (in a frame...