You can dazzle your audience by making all these stars twinkle.
The article How to add a flashing star to a PowerPoint slide shows you a Microsoft PowerPoint technique that adds a single flashing star to a slide. One flashing star can be effective in those situations where less is more. Sometimes, however, you’ll want lots of flashing stars—think the red-carpet effect. Adding multiple flashing stars isn’t any more difficult than adding one and surprisingly, doesn’t take much time. In this article, I’ll show you how to add multiple flashing stars to a PowerPoint slide.
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I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. I recommend that you wait to upgrade to Windows 11 until all the kinks are worked out. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration .pptx and .ppt files (although I can’t guarantee this will work in the .ppt format). The PowerPoint demonstration file also contains the demonstration slide from the linked article. You can play this presentation in PowerPoint for the web. Creating it would be a little difficult because there’s no Animations pane.
Flashing lights in a presentation can be a problem because some people are sensitive to moving or flashing images and lights. For some, it might even be worse, causing a seizure. For the most part, people with this sensitivity know about it and make their own arrangements. However, an up-front warning to a public audience is prudent. Beyond that, you might even forego the flashing lights, just to be safe.
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The information that gets all the excitement can be text or graphic. I’m going to use text to keep things simple. Although you can’t get the full effect from Figure A, if you download the demonstration file you can run the show to see the full effect, which includes several stars of different shapes, sizes and flashing times.
Figure A
This PowerPoint slide has lots of flashing stars.
How to add the exciting event to a slide in PowerPoint
Using Figure A as a guide, add the text BIG NEWS to a PowerPoint slide with a black or dark background, so the stars show well. To format the background, right-click the background and choose Format Background from the resulting submenu.
Click the Shape Options tab if necessary, click the Solid Fill option, and then choose a dark color from the Color dropdown palette shown in Figure B.
Figure B
Add some exciting text and apply a dark color to the background.
The font text is Broadway 96 pt. Feel free to use different text and text fonts if you like because doing so won’t affect the instructions. With the main event expressed in text, it’s time to add the flashing stars.
How to add stars to the slide in PowerPoint
The static content is ready. The next step is to start adding stars. Specifically, we’ll add several different shaped stars from the Shapes dropdown. We’ll resize them, change their color and position them in this section.
To add a star shape to the PowerPoint slide, do the following:
- Click the Insert tab and then click Shapes in …….
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