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How to Use the Zoom Effect in PowerPoint

Here are some tips on how to use the Zoom effect in PowerPoint to make your presentation more interactive.

PowerPoint offers many ways to make your presentations more interesting, and the zoom tool is one of the best, as it's attractive and practical.

Let’s explore what this feature is and how to use its zoom effect in your PowerPoint projects to quickly jump between slides, draw attention to important sections, and more.

What Is the Zoom Tool in PowerPoint?

As the name suggests, PowerPoint’s zoom lets you hone in on parts of your presentation while the slideshow is running. You may need to revisit slides you already mentioned, for example, or want to keep the presentation small.

All-in-all, there are three formats for your zoom effect: summary, section, and slide. With these at your disposal, as well as additional settings, you can make your project very impressive and interactive. There are some requirements in order to be able to use zooms, so check Microsoft’s support guide for more details on the feature.

How to Use Zoom on PowerPoint

On PowerPoint, go to Insert , and you’ll find the Zoom button in your Links section. If you click the arrow, you’ll find your three formats, which will open more options once set up.

Here’s a more detailed breakdown of what Zoom tools you have and how you can make the most of them. They can really come in handy when building engaging presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint .

1. Use Summary Zoom

Once you’ve created a few slides, select Summary Zoom to open a new window, where you select the slides your zoom is to highlight as your presentation’s milestones, whether you added actual sections or not.

With your selection ticked, hit the Insert button, and a new slide will appear under Summary Section and containing your whole presentation behind the milestones you chose.

Basically, whatever comes after each of these slides will appear in your slideshow, but you can choose to zoom out of that section, move to another, and return later to go through these slides.

This is the beauty of Summary Zoom . It replaces your slideshow, putting it all onto a single slide instead, where you can easily jump in and out of the sections you need.

Finally, if you select the zoom feature on your summary slide, its toolbar will open and offer you options specific to this format, also available on the zoom’s menu when you right-click it:

• Edit Summary , taking you back to the slide selection window.
• Reset Layout , in case you regret adjustments you made to the summary.
• Change Image for the slides displayed in the summary.

2. Use Section Zoom

This effect is for jumping to a section from a particular slide. Let’s say you put a simple outline of your complex presentation on a slide, and you want to be able to quickly refer to it at different stages of the slideshow. PowerPoint has the answer.

Select a slide, go to your Zoom menu, and click Section Zoom . You’ll get a similar window as before, so you can choose the section you need to jump to.

Once done, PowerPoint will insert the zoom effect to your slide in the form of another slide, the one that starts the section you chose. It will also display how many additional slides the section contains.

You can resize and move the zoom feature around, as well as choose a better image for it from the Zoom toolbar or the feature’s right-click menu. So, even if you download PowerPoint templates from sites , you can add and customize zooms to your heart’s content.

3. Use Slide Zoom

If your presentation doesn’t have sections, but you want to jump to specific parts, try Slide Zoom . When setting it up, you only need to choose one or multiple slides you want to zoom to while presenting.

Like with Section Zoom , the feature will sit on a slide of your choice and will activate when you click on it, at which point you can run through its subsequent slides or go back to the feature’s home slide.

Keep in mind that you can go back and forth on PowerPoint presentations by clicking the arrow icons on each slide or using the arrows on your keyboard. Additionally, you can change the image of each Slide Zoom feature you add to your presentation using the same button as before.

How to Customize Your Zoom's Actions in PowerPoint

You can change many things about your zooms from their toolbar, starting with how they behave during your PowerPoint presentation.

These settings are in Zoom Options alongside the customization tools for each zoom type. You get three extra tools:

• Return to Zoom , which ensures that the presentation jumps back to your zoom’s home slide or section.
• Zoom Transition , which automates the return to your zoom.
• Duration refers to the above transition.

If you like using PowerPoint’s animations pane , feel free to explore how to make your zooms fly in and out of the screen in a pleasing way.

Choose Your Zoom's Style

The best thing you can customize is the zoom’s appearance, from its frame to its effects. This means you can blend it into your presentation very smoothly.

In the Zoom Style toolbar, you’ll find a range of outlines for your feature, which you can adjust further with the Zoom Border tool. Then, you have Zoom Effects , containing all sorts of impressive ways to make the feature pop, including Shadow , Glow , and 3D Rotation .

If you’d rather not deal with frames and effects, however, you can just click Zoom Background and use the home slide as the feature’s backdrop. Further changes may be necessary to blend the zoom and slide in effectively. You could even make your image’s background transparent before attaching it to the slide.

Arrange Your Zoom's Objects

PowerPoint also offers tools to rearrange zooms on their slides. First off, click on Selection Pane to see all the slide’s objects.

Then, you can bring any object forward or backward, change its alignment, and rotate them. So, it’s not just your zoom you can adjust, but everything else on the slide, too.

Change the Size of Your Zoom

While you can simply click and drag the edges of a zoom to make it bigger or smaller, you also have the Size section on the toolbar.

At first glance, you can only adjust the height and width of the zoom, but if you click the task pane icon, you’ll find several more options for the zoom’s size and position.

For example, besides choosing the dimensions and placement of your zoom, you can lock the aspect ratio you chose and even set the best resolution for your slideshow.

Add Alt Text to Your Zoom

A final cool tool for your presentation’s zoom effects lets you add alt text to them, so you can accommodate viewers who have low vision or blindness.

All you do is select a zoom and click Alt Text on the toolbar. A pane opens, where you can type in a description for the zoom or mark it as decorative.

Screen readers and apps for the blind and visually impaired , with the right tools, will be able to tell their users whether the zoom as a feature is informative or just an ornament.

Put PowerPoint’s Zoom Effects to Good Use

Now that you know what zooms can do for PowerPoint projects, consider how you can use them. Structure your slideshows well, and you’ll be able to create some highly interactive presentations, whether you’re there to present them or not.

A photographer, author, or job seeker could set up a portfolio that zooms into their works and achievements. Whole training sessions could be made compact and easier to follow thanks to PowerPoint’s zoom tool. Get to know its full capabilities.

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Some Microsoft PowerPoint slides have a lot going on. There’s might be a lot of small details or some important content, and editing that content isn’t practical. When this happens, you can create a zoom shape and use the grow animation to zoom in on the detail or content you’re talking about. Doing so allows you to retain the big picture, both visually and conceptually, while focusing on the heart of the discussion. In this article, we’ll create a zoom effect by animating a special shape, which I’ll call the zoom shape.

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This technique is simple but has a few steps:

• We’ll create a duplicate slide with the same image.
• Using a shape, we’ll outline the zoom area to create a zoom shape—the area we want to draw attention to by making it larger. This is a term I made up; you won’t find it as a shape option or setting.
• We’ll merge the image and the zoom shape to remove everything but the zoom shape.
• Finally, we’ll move the zoom shape to the original slide and add the grow animation.

I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use earlier versions. You can work with your own image or download the demonstration .pptx and .ppt file s. This article assumes you have basic PowerPoint skills, such as inserting shapes and applying settings.

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How to create the zoom shape

We’re going to need two copies of the map image shown in Figure A . One will be the actual slide; the second will supply the zoom shape. To create a duplicate slide, right-click the original map slide in the Navigation pane and choose Duplicate Slide from the resulting submenu ( Figure A ). PowerPoint will add the second slide, which you’ll see in the Navigation pane just below the original.

Now we’re ready to create the zoom shape by covering that area with an oval shape and then merging the map image and the shape. Move to the second slide (if necessary) and then click the Insert tab. Grab the oval shape (in the Basic Shapes section) and while dragging it over the southern tip of South America hold down the Shift key to get a perfect circle, as shown in Figure B .

With the shape still selected, use the Shape Outline option on the contextual Shape Format tab to set the outline color to red and the weight to 3 points (or anything you like).

The next step is to merge the map and the zoom shape. To do so, select both objects by selecting one, holding down the Shift key and clicking the other. With both the map and the shape selected, click the Merge Shapes dropdown (in the Insert Shapes group), and choose Intersect. Figure C shows the results; PowerPoint hides everything but the image in the zoom shape. If the Merge Shapes option is dimmed, make sure to select both the map and the shape; this feature doesn’t work with only one selected object.

At this point, I want to mention that this effect won’t always be easy to apply if the zoom area has lots of surrounding or overlapping content. In Figure C , you can see that the zoom shape includes the longitude and latitude lines on the map. I did this on purpose; a picture is worth a thousand words. If those lines distract from the zoom shape, you can look for a new map that doesn’t include those lines. Or you can continue—that’s what we’re going to do. With the zoom shape created, it’s time to move it to the original slide and add the animation.

How to animate the zoom shape

We’re ready to add the zoom shape (in the duplicate slide) to the original slide and add the animation that “zooms in.” To do so, simply paste the zoom shape to the original slide and drag it until it’s a perfect match, as shown in Figure D . In this case, those lines we talked about are helpful! If you can’t line it up perfectly, use the Nudge feature to move the zoom shape a tad. To do so, hold down the Ctrl key and click the appropriate arrow key.

With the zoom shape in place, we’re ready to move on to the last step. Before applying the animation, let’s determine how we want to trigger it. Most likely, you’ll want to use a click event; that way you can trigger the animation when you’re ready. When applying this to your own work, you can choose any event you like.

With the zoom shape selected, click the Animations tab and then click the gallery’s More button (circled in Figure E ) to expose all the animations. In the Emphasis section, click Grow/Shrink. Next, from the Effect Options dropdown, choose Huge.

You’re done! To see the effect, run the show by pressing F5. When you’re ready to see the zoom effect, as shown in Figure F , click the slide.

This zoom technique requires a few steps and as shown, a bit of thought when selecting the best image, but it’s easy to implement considering the results.

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How To Zoom Into Your Picture in PowerPoint

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Learn to create a focused zoom for photos in PowerPoint. Follow our simple step by step instructions to get more out of your graphics in business presentations.

Here is the focused zoom effect in PowerPoint you will learn today:

You can use the effect to focus on…

• A certain part of a map
• Certain steps in a process
• A certain person in a group photo etc.

Let us see how to achieve the effect in a step-by-step way…

Step 1: Decide the part you want to focus on

The first step after sticking a picture on your slide is to decide the area you want to focus on. Draw a circle around the area. To make it easier to identify the outline, remove the shape's fill and color it white.

In the Custom Animation Pane add an entrance animation called ‘Wheel’ to the white circle. In the animation effect setting, change the number of spokes to 1. This will be the first part of the animation we want to create.

Step 2: Make a copy of the part you want to focus on

The main idea in this step is to make a copy of the flower and place it right on top of the flower picture in the background. For this, make a copy of the photo. Using the ‘crop’ tool crop the photo till the four sides touch the edge of the white circle.

We don’t want this cropped image to be a square. We want it to be a circle. For this, we need to make a copy of the white circle, remove the animation and fill it with the picture of the flower.

So, first ‘copy’ the cropped photo. By doing this, the piece is stored in the clipboard.

Select the copied white circle and right click to go to the ‘Format shape’ dialog box. Go to Fill -> Picture or texture fill -> Clipboard. This fills the shape with the cropped photo. Remove the outline.

Increase the transparency of the circular flower image to position it in the right place on top of the background picture. Transparency should be restored to 0%.

Now, we have a picture in the background, a hollow white circle with a ‘wheel’ animation. In addition, we have a circle with the photo of the flower placed on top of the flower picture in the background.

Related:  Transparent PowerPoint Sphere tutorial

Step 3: Apply ‘Grow/ Shrink’ animation

Click on the circle with the flower image. Apply the entrance effect 'Appear', and let the start be ‘After Previous’. Click on the flower image once again and add the ‘Grow/Shrink’ animation to make it grow to 150%. Set the speed to 'fast'. The animation should start 'After Previous’.

Now you can play the animation. Here is the sequence of what will happen:

• First, the hollow white circle appears with wheel animation to mark the area being zoomed in
• The picture of the flower ‘appears’ and ‘grows’ to 150%
• This creates the zoom effect in PowerPoint you saw at the start of this tutorial.

Isn’t the effect interesting? By learning the base technique, you can customize it to suit your needs.

If you have an issue with the quality of photos when using the 'grow' animation, you can find a solution in this tutorial .

Variations of the Zoom Effect in PowerPoint

It takes a lot of time and effort to create professional quality custom animated slides for your business slides. Most business presenters don’t have the time to create such high-quality slides for themselves. This is the reason we came up with a collection of 750+ Advanced Animated Templates for PowerPoint .

Here is a variation of the picture animation from the pack…

Here is a variation where we have used a ‘snapshot’ effect to showcase images.

Source: Graphics from Advance Animated Templates for PowerPoint

You can browse through the various animations in the Advance Animated Pack by clicking right here .

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Tired of navigating your slides in a chronological order? Looking for ways to spice up the way you interact with your presentation and engage your audience?

Transform your boring presentations into something more engaging and captivating with PowerPoint’s Zoom feature. PowerPoint Zoom allows you to create dynamic, non-linear presentations. Think of it as building a Prezi inside PowerPoint. Jump from one point in your presentation to the next seamlessly by creating links to the different sections of your presentation.

By utilizing PowerPoint’s Slide Zoom, Section Zoom, and Summary Zoom, you can easily create an entertaining and engaging presentation for your audience. There are many different ways to add these to your presentation, so read on to learn how to use PowerPoint Zoom and implement it in the best ways!

Table of Contents

What is powerpoint zoom.

PowerPoint’s Zoom feature is a tool that allows you to create interactive PowerPoint presentations . It enables you to zoom in and out of specific sections or slides, creating a more dynamic and immersive experience for your audience. With PowerPoint Zoom , you can easily create links or “zoom areas” on your slides such that when clicked during a presentation, can allow you to navigate to specific slides or sections and focus on the content that is most relevant at any given time—there’s no need to be stuck with whatever slide is chronologically next.

Why Use PowerPoint Zoom?

PowerPoint Zoom lets you present in a more flexible and interactive way. For instance, you can create a dynamic menu that allows your audience to help you choose which topics to cover first. With just a click, you can jump to that slide or section and relay that information.

PowerPoint Zoom is also particularly useful for storytelling , guiding your audience through a series of complex information without being restricted to a traditional linear slide progression.

No need for hyperlinks, tedious work, or coding—PowerPoint Zoom allows for a seamless setup and flow of your presentation.

Let’s dive right in and discover how to make a zoom effect in PowerPoint!

How to Make a Zoom Effect in PowerPoint?

PowerPoint’s Zoom feature consists of three different options: Slide Zoom, Section Zoom, and Summary Zoom. While their setups are similar, the reasons for using each one vary.

Below we will delve into each of these PowerPoint Zoom options in depth.

Download our FREE PowerPoint Zoom template to follow along! 👇

Slide Zoom PowerPoint Templates

Turn your PowerPoint into an interactive experience today with this Slide Zoom template!

When to use Slide Zoom? ⏲️

Slide Zoom, as the name suggests, allows you to create links and “zoom in” on the content of another slide without following the traditional slide-to-slide progression. This comes in especially handy when you want to direct your audience’s attention to a particular image, chart, or piece of information on a slide instantly.

How to use Slide Zoom? 💻

1. Select the Main Starting Slide : To use PowerPoint Slide Zoom, first select the starting slide where you intend to apply the Zoom effect. In our example, we are using the Iceberg Model illustration as our starting slide. We want to zoom into the different description slides from our Iceberg Model slide.

2. Access the Slide Zoom Feature : Next, click Insert > Zoom > Slide Zoom . From here, choose the slide, or slides, that you want to zoom into. Click Insert and a thumbnail or thumbnails of the slides will appear on your current slide.

3. Rearrange the Thumbnails : Rearrange the thumbnails on your slide to match your design and layout.

4. Test the Slide Zoom: Now, in presentation mode, when you click on the slide thumbnails, you can zoom into the particular slides!

With a smooth Slide Zoom effect, you will notice that transitioning from slide to slide has become significantly more engaging!

Zoom Option: Zoom Background

Notice the thick outline of each slide you added to Zoom? Let’s remove that for a cleaner, more professional look on your slides. 

To do that, click on the added Zoom slide thumbnail , then click the Zoom tab in the PowerPoint ribbon. Now, click on the Zoom Background option to hide the default background and match the background of the thumbnail to the background of your current slide.

Zoom Option: Return to Zoom

Another customizable option is the Return to Zoom feature.

With the current setup of Slide Zoom, once you click on the Zoom thumbnail and navigate to the zoomed in slide, you cannot return to the main starting slide. In other words, you will move on to the next slide in a linear order, with essentially an added zoom transition.

On the other hand, by applying Return to Zoom, you will be brought back to your main starting slide every time instead. This way you can click change the order of your slides. For example, with Return to Zoom enabled, when I can click on next slide after clicking on the “Phase #3 The Structure” slide, I will be brought back to the main starting slide instead of the “Phase #4 Mental Models” slide.

To make this happen, after selecting each of your Zoom slide thumbnails, simply click on the Return to Zoom option from the Zoom tab. 

Section Zoom

When to use section zoom ⏲️.

While Slide Zoom allows you to zoom into one slide at a time, Section Zoom allows you to zoom into a specific section containing multiple related slides of your presentation. This is especially helpful for longer presentations or presentations with multiple topics. 

How to use Section Zoom? 💻

Here, we have a deck about the Solar System. Each planet has its own section with a couple slides underneath each section. Our main slide has an overview of the whole Solar System. In this case, I would like to be able to click on a planet, then be able to learn more about that planet. You can easily do this with Section Zoom!

1. Select the Main Starting Slide : Similar to PowerPoint Slide Zoom, you have to select a starting slide where you intend to apply the Zoom effect for Section Zoom. Here we are using the Solar System slide as our main starting slide where we can zoom into the different planet sections.

2. Access the Section Zoom Feature : On the overview slide, click Insert > Zoom > Section Zoom . Then choose the sections you would like to Zoom into and click Insert . The thumbnails of the first slide of each section will appear in your current slide.

Zoom Option: Change the Image

Don’t like how the different thumbnails are making your slide looks cluttered, fret not, you can change the thumbnail image of your slides for easier viewing. 

To do this, right-click on the zoom slide thumbnail and select Change Image . Then, substitute it with an image or screenshot from your device. For instance, you can take screenshots of the different segments in your slide to “hide” the zoom slide thumbnails underneath these screenshots.

Now, when you enter presentation mode, instead of clicking z zoom slide thumbnail, you can click on a planet to zoom into a desired section! Watch this video to learn exactly how to do it! 

Summary Zoom

When to use summary zoom ⏲️.

The third and final PowerPoint Zoom feature is Summary Zoom. It lets you create a summary or overview slide that acts as a hub for your presentation. It is perfect for those times when you want to give your audience a quick recap or provide them with a visual roadmap of your presentation.

Similar to Section Zoom, Summary Zoom contains links to specific sections or slides in your presentation, allowing you to navigate to the most relevant parts of your presentation. The main distinction lies in the fact that the Summary Zoom feature will automatically generate a summary slide containing thumbnails of each section or slide for your convenience.

How to use Summary Zoom? 💻

1. Select the Main Starting Slide : Similar to both PowerPoint Slide Zoom and Section Zoom, you have to select a starting slide where you intend to apply the Zoom effect for Summary

2. Access the Summary Soon Feature : To use PowerPoint Summary Zoom, click Insert > Zoom > Summary Zoom . This will create a new slide that displays a summary of your presentation, with thumbnails of each slide.

3. Customize Appearance : You can customize the appearance of the Summary Zoom slide by selecting the Format tab. Here, you can choose from various layouts, fonts, and colors to make the slide visually appealing and aligned with your presentation’s theme.

During your presentation, easily navigate to any slide by clicking on the different Zoom slide thumbnails. It’s a great way to give your audience an easy-to-follow roadmap and ensure they stay engaged and focused throughout your presentation.

Real-World PowerPoint Zoom Examples to Engage Your Audience

Here are some real-life examples of how to use PowerPoint Zoom to create engaging and immersive presentations: 

• Sales Pitch

Create interactive slides with zoomed-in images and key features for your products or services. By allowing the audience to explore products in detail, you can generate more interest and engagement during a pitch.

• Educational Lecture with Organised Sections

Similar to our Solar System deck, you can organize your presentation into sections so that students can go through the presentations at their own pace starting with what interests them the most.

Add interactive questions to the presentation using ClassPoint , to make it even more engaging. 

• Team Meeting Roadmap

Create an engaging team meeting with Summary Zoom. Highlight key milestones and deliverables in a visual and clear roadmap to help the team stay focused and engaged throughout the meeting.

• Interactive Visuals 

Use maps and charts as your overview slide and add zoom slide thumbnails of added information to showcase further data, information, and analytics. 

• Virtual Tours or Walkthroughs

Simulate a virtual tour or walkthrough using images on your slides. Add the Zoom feature to replicate “moving” from one “location” to another.

PowerPoint Zoom FAQ

Here are some common FAQ’s about this powerful tool:

What are the differences between the PowerPoint Zoom Options? 

Slide Zoom zooms from one slide to the next while Section Zoom zooms into a whole section of your presentation before bringing you back to the overview slide. The Summary Zoom option provides you with a Table-of-Contents-like slide for an easy overview of your whole presentation. 

How to make Prezi in PowerPoint? 

You can make a PowerPoint that looks similar to Prezi with PowerPoint’s Zoom feature. With your selected slide to Zoom into, click on the Insert tab, Zoom, and select Slide, Section, or Summary Zoom.

Can I use PowerPoint Zoom on any version of PowerPoint?

PowerPoint Zoom is available on PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016, and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. Make sure you have the latest version to take advantage of this feature.

Will my audience need any special software to view the Zoom features?

No, your audience does not need any special software. The Zoom features will work seamlessly when you present your PowerPoint file on any device with PowerPoint installed.

Can I use Zoom in combination with other PowerPoint animations and transitions?

Yes, you can! PowerPoint Zoom works well with other animations and transitions, allowing you to create a truly immersive and engaging presentation.

Can I edit or remove Zoom features from my presentation?

Absolutely! You can easily edit or remove Zoom features from your presentation at any time. Just follow the steps outlined in this blog post to make any necessary changes.

Yay! You now can create an even more engaging presentation with PowerPoint’s Zoom feature. 

The versatility and impact of PowerPoint Zoom can be used in various settings. By incorporating this feature into your presentations, you can captivate your audience, enhance information retention, and create a memorable experience for your listeners. 

Experience the power of PowerPoint Slide Zoom firsthand! Begin by exploring our templates and seamlessly integrate this feature into your upcoming presentations.

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Zoom Feature in PowerPoint – How to Use it Correctly!

By: Author Shrot Katewa

It is hard to accept but even the most seasoned PowerPoint users find it hard to create a table of contents that is visually modern-looking and interactive! The “ Zoom ” feature can help not only with the table of contents but much more than that!

The zoom feature in PowerPoint helps create visual links between sections of your presentation. It makes the presentation interactive by adding a clickable thumbnail of a slide or a section in your presentation and allowing you to easily navigate within your presentation with cool effects!

Even if you use PowerPoint regularly, chances are you aren’t fully aware of the “Zoom” feature in PowerPoint.

And, by now if you are thinking about zooming in on the slides using the functions provided at the bottom-right corner of PowerPoint, then you really need to go through this article as you might not be aware of one of the most awesome features in PowerPoint called “ Zoom “.

1. What is Zoom in PowerPoint?

Imagine if you could just click on an image on your slide and it just zooms into that image, opening the section of your presentation that provides more information about that image! The “Zoom” feature in PowerPoint, does exactly that!

The zoom feature in Microsoft PowerPoint is a new feature that makes your presentations interactive and dynamic. Using the zoom feature in PowerPoint, you can create a zoom slide from which you can jump to and from specific slides or sections in any order you may need during the presentation.

Let’s explore this feature by checking out some of the different types of “zoom” that you can add to your presentation –

1a. Summary Zoom

The “Summary Zoom” in Microsoft PowerPoint is a landing page where you can see the summarized slides within a page.

In the summary zoom, you can select which slides to show. You can even create summary slides to show on the summary zoom. During the presentation, you can click on any slide on the summary to proceed according to the need of the audience rather than the preset slide progression.

1b. Section Zoom

In Microsoft PowerPoint, “Section Zoom” is a slide that contains the preview and the link to the sections within the presentation.

You can click on them to jump from one section to another to highlight the important parts of your presentation.

1c. Slide Zoom

The “Slide Zoom” feature in PowerPoint allows you to navigate freely through the slides in a presentation. In the slide zoom, you can add all the slides or a few selected slides.

From this section, you can move freely between slides, emphasize the important slides, and even cut the presentation short without seeming so to the audience.

2. How to Insert Slide Zoom in Microsoft PowerPoint?

To use the “Zoom” feature in PowerPoint, first, click on the “Insert” tab. Then, click on the “Zoom” button from the ribbon. Choose the type of zoom from “Summary”, “Section”, and “Slide” zoom. Next, select the slides from the window that pops up by holding the “Ctrl” key, and click on “Insert”.

Here’s a step-by-step process with visual aids on what you need to do –

Step-1: Click on the “Insert” tab

The first step is to open the “Insert” menu. Click on the “Insert” tab which is located in the menu ribbon at the top of the screen.

Step-2: Click on the “Zoom” button

In the “Links” section of the “Insert” menu, click on the “Zoom” button. This will open a dropdown menu. Click on the “Slide Zoom” option from the dropdown menu.

Step-3: Choose the Slide and Click on “Insert”

Clicking on the “Slide Zoom” option will open the “Insert Slide Zoom” dialog box.

Select the slides you want to include in the slide zoom and then click on the “Insert” button at the bottom of the dialog box. Now all you have to do is arrange the slides in the slide zoom according to your preference.

3. How to Edit Slide Zoom in PowerPoint?

Once you add the slide zoom to your presentation, you can easily edit it. To access the editing pane, all you have to do is click on the slide zoom. Then click on the “Zoom” tab in the menu ribbon.

3a. Change Borders in Slide Zoom

To add or change the border of the slides in slide zoom, click on the “Zoom Border” option. In the dropdown menu, you can click on your preferred color for the border.

You can also click on the “Weight” option and select the border width from the secondary menu. To change the border design, click on the “Dashes” option.

3b. Add Effects in Slide Zoom

You can add various effects in the slide zoom. To do so, you have to first click on a single or multiple slides in the slide zooms where you want to add effects.

Then click on the “Zoom Effects” option. In the dropdown menu, you can click on any effect option to open a secondary pop-up menu. Click on your preferred effect. You can add multiple effects on a single zoom slide.

3c. Remove Background in Slide Zoom

In Microsoft PowerPoint slide zoom, you can remove the slide background of each slide in the slide zoom. Click on the “Zoom Background” option in the “Zoom Styles” section under the “Zoom” tab. This will remove the background of the selected slide.

4. How to Change Picture in Slide Zoom?

In Slide Zoom, the default thumbnail pictures are a screenshot of the slides. However, you can change the pictures if you want. All you have to do is follow the 4 easy steps.

Step-1: Click on the “Zoom” tab

The first step is to click on the slide thumbnail that you want to change. Then click on the “Zoom” tab at which is the last tab in the menu ribbon.

Step-2: Click on the “Change Image” option

The second step is to click on the “Change Image” button which is the first option in the “Zoom Options” section of the “Zoom” menu (as shown in the image in step 1).

Then click on the “Change Image” option from the dropdown menu.

Step-3: Click on “From a File”

When you click on the “Change Image” option, it will open a dialog box. In the “Insert Pictures” dialog box, click on the “From a File” option. This will open another dialog box.

Step-4: Click on the “Insert” button

In the “Insert Picture” dialog box, click on the image which you want to add to the slide thumbnail in the slide zoom.

Then click on the “Insert” button at the bottom of the dialog box. In the slide zoom, the original thumbnail will be changed to the selected image.

4a. How to Reset Picture in Slide Zoom?

Once you change the picture of the slide thumbnail in the PowerPoint slide zoom, you can revert it to the original thumbnail.

All you have to do is click on the “Change Image” button in the “Zoom” menu. Then click on the “Reset Image” option from the dropdown menu.

5. How to Stop Slide Zoom?

In the Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, the presentation will return to the slide zoom, after each slide. To stop this, select the slide in the slide zoom and then click on the “Zoom” tab in the menu bar.

In the “Zoom” menu, click on the “Return to Zoom” option. The checkmark in the box next to it will disappear. This will stop the slides from returning to the slide zoom screen.

5a. How to Return to Slide Zoom?

Once you stop the slide zoom on Microsoft PowerPoint, you can turn on the feature again. All you have to do is select the slide again and click on the “Zoom” tab. Then click on the box next to the “Return to Zoom” option.

The checkmark will appear again. Now the screen will return to the slide zoom after the selected slide during the presentation.

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Create pan and zoom effects in PowerPoint

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By Glenna R. Shaw , Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, and owner of Glenna Shaw Visual Communications  site

You can add action to your digital images through the use of panning and zooming effects made famous by the documentary photographer Ken Burns. Wikipedia states, "In his documentaries, Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. For example, in a photograph of a baseball team, he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to a rest on the player the narrator is discussing."

The examples below are made by using PowerPoint 2007, but the basic instructions are the same for other versions of PowerPoint. This article also assumes knowledge of applying animations and their settings.

Begin by turning on grids and guides. These will help you with placement of several items as we work and more easily help you identify the center of the slide which is very important. (On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange , point to Align , and then click Grid Settings , and the dialog box pictured below shows. I choose not to snap any objects because I like a little more control, but you may find snapping objects easier for you.

Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions.

Create a panorama

The advantage of a panoramic picture is that it shows so much more than a traditional photograph. For example, I have a new swimming pool that I want to send pictures of to my family, but regular pictures just don't convey the overall effect very well. My solution is to create a panoramic shot of the entire pool. To do this, I stood in one location and took my first picture, turned slightly to the left, took the second picture, and so on. I then stitched these photos together on my slide by aligning and grouping them. I've shown the pictures in my example with green lines to highlight the concept. You will not want lines on your photos.

I then right-clicked on the grouped object, clicked Save as Picture , and saved my new panorama picture as PoolPanorama.jpg file.

I next deleted this grouped object and inserted the PoolPanorama.jpg file on my slide and used the cropping tool under Picture Tools , on the Format tab, in the Size group, to make the top and bottom of my panorama picture even. (To display the Picture Tools and Format tabs, make sure that you've selected the picture.)

Finally, I formatted the picture to be the same height as my slide (7.5 inches) and changed the size of the viewing window to 30% in order to see the entire picture (using the slider in the lower right corner). I then aligned the picture with the left side of the slide. For best results, the width of your panorama should be a multiple of 10 (since the slide is 10 inches wide) so you don't end with white space when the picture "moves." In my example, the width is 30 inches.

Now I use the options in the Custom Animation task pane to add a motion path of left to the panorama picture and used my mouse to extend the end point all the way to the left of the picture. (To open the Custom Animation task pane, on the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation .) I set timings on the motion path to a Speed of 30 seconds and clear the check boxes on the Effect tab for Smooth start , Smooth end , and select the check box for Auto-reverse .

Now, when I run the slide show, the picture of the pool will slowly pan left and then slowly pan back, allowing my audience to more fully experience the effect. Selecting the Smooth start and Smooth end check boxes will slightly slow down the animation at the beginning and end of the motion path, so that's a matter of preference.

Pan across a photograph

Adding a panning effect to a group photo allows you showcase both the group and the individuals.

I'll begin by inserting my picture on my slide. Higher resolution photos will look better, but you may have some issues with them truncating. If this happens to you, decrease the resolution of the picture. You'll want your picture to be as high quality as possible, because (when zoomed) it will lose some of the quality. See this PowerPoint MVP site for additional information: PowerPoint FAQ: Scans, Resolution, DPI section .

I resize the picture to fit the slide. To do this, I right-click on my picture, click Size and Position , and then format the picture to a height of 7.5 inches (the standard slide height). Make sure to lock your picture’s Aspect Ratio or they’ll look distorted by selecting the Lock aspect ratio check box.

I now have a photo centered on the slide.

For this example, I want to pan across my family's faces, so the first thing I'll want to do is decide where I want to start and where I want to end. To do this, I need a rectangle that's proportional to the slide. For my example, I'll use a 3-by-4-inch rectangle shown in bright yellow.

Now I copy and paste a duplicate rectangle and move it to where I want the panning to end.

I align the rectangles top and bottom and use the rectangles as a guide to crop my photo .

Finally, I delete the yellow rectangles, resize my photo to the height of my slide, align it on the left side, and then use the same steps to create the left motion path that I did in the panorama example above.

Note:  Once again, you'll want the width to be a multiple of 10, so you may need to adjust the clipping. I made my photo 20 inches wide.

Now my photo pans across my family's faces.

Zoom in and out

If you'd like to emphasize a single object in your photo, zooming in and out is very effective and easily accomplished.

In my example I'll spotlight my little grandson. I begin with the same photo on my slide and copy and paste a duplicate exactly over the top of the first photo. Then I clip the second photo around my little grandson. I've added a yellow line to show the clipped area. You'll want your clipped photo to be proportional to the slide. I made mine 3-by-4 inches.

Now I resize the clipped photo to fit the entire slide and add an entrance animation of Faded Zoom , After Previous , Delay set to 2 seconds , and Medium speed. I also add an exit animation of Faded Zoom , After Previous , Delay set to 2 seconds, and Medium speed.

My photo will now display the entire family photo, wait 2 seconds, zoom in on my little grandson, wait 2 seconds, and zoom back out to my entire family photo.

Unfortunately, the zooming only occurs from the center of the slide, so the effect still isn't quite what I'm looking for, and I'll have to add a motion path to give the impression of zooming in on the lower-left quadrant where my grandson is located. To do this, I move the clipped photo so that it's fairly centered over where my grandson is in the original photo. I now click Draw Custom Path (after clicking Motion Paths ) and draw a custom motion path from the center of my clipped picture to the center of the slide. Finally, I move the sequence of the custom motion path line in my animations to Start With Previous with my Faded Zoom entrance animation, and make sure the speed is set for Medium to match my Faded Zoom entrance. You can reorder the sequence of any animation by dragging it up or down in the Custom Animation task pane. I also lock my custom animation path (select Locked in the Path drop-down list, Custom Animation task pane) so I can move my picture around while I'm editing and keep the path the way I want it.

My last step is to add a custom animation to my clipped picture to go from the center of the slide to the start point of the other custom motion path. To do this, I have to move the picture to the center and middle of the slide and add a custom motion path to go from the center of the slide to the center of where my grandson is sitting in the original picture. I then apply the same settings to this custom motion path as I did in the first: With Previous , Medium speed and Locked .

My picture now zooms in from the appropriate location and zooms back out again to the appropriate location.

Combine zooming and panning

In my previous examples, I was able to spotlight different family members, but not all of them in a cohesive sequence. What I would really like to do is zoom in and pan across my family's faces, ending with a close-up of my little grandson.

To do this, I add an enlarged copy of my photo over the top of the original and use this to create my zoom effect. You may be tempted to use the Grow/Shrink animation effect, but the degraded resolution makes this a poor choice if you’re working with photos.

I copied and pasted a duplicate of my picture on the slide and resized it as desired. Remember some large pictures may get truncated when you run the slideshow, so take that into consideration when you resize yours. I made mine 15 inches wide. This makes it difficult to view the entire slide, so I change the window size to 40% (using the slider in the lower right corner) and align this larger picture to the Middle and Center of the slide.

I then Add shapes under Flowchart that has no fill , and I set the line color to contrast with my picture and make it a heavy line so I can easily see it. I place this crosshair shape over my first zoom and pan point. I then copy and paste two more crosshairs and place them over my other pan points.

The end result is a large image of my picture and three guides that I'll use to set up my custom animations and delete when my effects are finished.

Finally, I ensure my grouped object keeps the proper aspect ratio by right clicking it, clicking Size and Position , and then under Scale , selecting the Lock aspect ratio check box.

I add a faded zoom entrance effect for my large picture. I set it to start After Previous , Delay is set to 2 seconds (so audiences can see my original picture), and speed is set to Medium .

I then add a custom motion path to the large picture that goes from the first pan point crosshair to the center of the slide.

I set this custom motion path to With Previous , Very Slow speed, and Locked . I clear the Smooth start and Smooth end check boxes. Make sure you apply your custom motion path to the large picture and not the crosshairs shape.

The motion path may not be where you expect it, but it is correct. Now I hold down the SHIFT key and click the large picture and all the crosshairs to select them. I move all the selected items so that the starting point crosshairs are in the center of the slide.

Note:  Having the guides and rulers turned on helps me do this, and since the motion path is locked, it stays where it belongs. If the ruler does not appear, on the View tab, in the Show/Hide group, select Ruler .

I click the gray area to clear the selection of all my objects and then click the picture to select it. Now I add another custom motion path to go from the center of the second pan point to the center of the slide. I set this custom motion path to After Previous and Delay to 1 second. I select Locked and Very Slow speed and clear the check boxes for Smooth start and Smooth end .

I repeat this step to create my final pan stop. I select the picture and move it so the second crosshairs are now in the center of the slide. I add my final custom motion path going from the crosshair center of my final pan stop to the center of the slide and set it to After Previous , Delay 2 seconds, Locked , and Very Slow speed, and I clear the Smooth start and Smooth end check boxes.

And finally I hide all my reference crosshairs by setting the shape outline to None and align the large picture with the middle and center of the slide.

I then “tweaked” the start and end points of my custom motion paths to avoid having the picture edge show on screen. I could see this by using the Play button in the Custom Animation task pane.

When I run my slide show, it zooms in, pans left to right across my family's faces, and ends with a close-up of my little grandson.

As always, I encourage you to experiment, experiment, experiment for yourself.

About the author

Glenna Shaw is a Certified Project Management Professional with the federal government and an active member of the PowerPoint Community. She is Microsoft Certified in PowerPoint and Word and holds a Certificate in Accessible Information Technology.

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PowerPoint Zoom Animation Effect [Pro Trick]

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• November 21, 2017

You remember those Where’s Waldo books? Well this effect would be PERFECT for zooming in on his location and pointing him out in the crowd.

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And it’s one of those  “I can’t believe that was made in PowerPoint!”  effects.

You can use this trick for things like zooming in on a section of a map to highlight a certain area, zooming in on a diagram to show some special features – like if you have lots of engine parts and want to highlight each part, one by one…or anything else you dream up!

I’ve also seen this animation used a lot in a series of static pictures, as well as in educational videos.

To overall process for creating this cool PowerPoint zoom animation effect (all detailed below), is to:

• Create your picture layers
• Add your zoom lines
• Add PowerPoint animations

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Step #1: Create your picture layers

So, the first thing we do is, of course, we paste the picture that we want to use in here.

So let’s paste in this picture of a woman’s face that I’ll be working with – and just stretch that out to be the full slide size (though you can do this trick with whatever size picture you want).

Now that we have done that, we have to choose which area of the picture we want to zoom in on – in my case, I have chosen the eye and the eyebrow.

We now duplicate the image by hitting Ctrl + D (or Control C and Control V, essentially copy and paste) if you are on a PC.

So, now we put the second image exactly on top of the first image. So we align them up exactly like that.

Now we go to Format > Crop > and we crop out exactly the area that we want to zoom in on.

Crop around that eye here like this:

For more help with cropping your images in PowerPoint,  see our how to guide here .

Now we have to decide how much we want to zoom in on this eye.

To play around with some zooming options we go to the Animations tab and go to the Grow/Shrink effect here:

This gives you an automatic 150%, but to see other options, we go to the Effect Options box.

From here, you can play around with different settings for the zoom. However, for this image, I actually like the default 150%, just the way it is. For this project, it gives just the right level of zoom – anything bigger looks kind of odd.

So find the right zoom level for your needs – you can keep testing and changing it in the Effect Options box.

Ok, now here comes the tricky part.

For the next step, we have to duplicate this eye, so we go to the Format tab and resize this with the same amount of zoom as we just choose in the Effect Options.  Since I had 150% for mine, that is what I’ll go with.  To begin, we go to the Size and Position box under the Format tab:

Then, we take out “Relative to original picture size.” Now you scale the height of this to 150.

Great.  Now the next step here is very important. You actually have to align up this bigger eye exactly with the other, normal sized eye, that you had here – until it looks exactly like the below.

The center points of both images have to match perfectly (you can use PowerPoint’s built in guidelines for this).

ow that we’re done with that, I want to show you one last layering option here. If you saw the original example that I did, the image actually faded to gray after the zoom happened.  If you want the same thing for your picture, follow the next step.

First, we duplicate the original picture again (CTRL +D as a shortcut). Then, under the Format Tab, we go to Color.

Then we can make it one of the gray tones. I chose this one here:

Again, we align this up to exactly match the original – use the guides if needed.

What we do now is we right click and mouse over Send to Back, then choose  Send Backward because you want it to go just one layer down. This will help us make the picture fade to gray when we want to do that.

Ok, now that we have this; we are ready to add the Zoom Lines.

Step #2: Add your zoom lines

To add the Zoom Lines we just go to Insert, Shape and we select one of the lines here.

You just want two vertical lines and two horizontal lines.

To make sure the line is straight you hold down the Shift key while you are dragging it down or sideways.  Recolor the line to black and feel free to change the thickness.

Note:  It really doesn’t matter if the line goes off of the screen like this one does.

Your final result with all 4 lines should look like the below.

I recommend zooming in to make sure that lines are pretty close to exact – it looks like it.

Now that we have the lines done, let’s just bring them all to the front.

Select all of them by holding down Shift and then right click, then select Bring to Front.

Great, now we’re ready to animate these.

Step #3: Add your PowerPoint animations

To add animations, we go to the Animations tab and we open the Animation Pane so we can see what we’re working with.

First, make sure that there aren’t any animations on the top eye (the larger one in the front).

I had a grow animation still on it from duplicating the smaller eye (since animations also get copied with duplicated images). I just need to remove this first.

In simpler terms, it’s the formatting backbone of your PowerPoint presentation. It’s what ensures formatting consistency across your entire presentation as you build your slides.

The key is, making sure that your template is set up correctly, which a lot of template don’t have. They are instead what we call fake PowerPoint template.

To learn how to create your own PowerPoint template, read our guide here .

The idea here will be that the small eye gets bigger, then when it’s done, the large eye will fade on top of it. The reason we’ll do it this way is because PowerPoint currently has a glitch that when you use animations to make things larger, they don’t retain quality and become pixelated.

This workaround ensures the eye (or the zoomed part of whatever picture you use) still looks good.

At this point, we’re not going to worry about the timings, as will adjust those in a little bit.

For now, let’s work with the lines. To do that we first select the lines (as we did before) by holding Control or Shift while we click on them.

Once the lines are selected, we’ll add a Fly In animation under the Entrance effects to all of them.

Of course, we’ll change the settings on it. Let’s make the lines fly in from opposite directions (top flies in from bottom, right flies in from left, etc.).

So, this top one is fine already because it is already coming from the bottom as the default.

For the bottom one, we’ll make it start from the top, the right line from the left, and the left line from the right.

Great – we have the lines done. One thing you may want to do as this point (depending on your picture) is to give the zoomed picture (the large eye in my case) a black outline.  This often makes the effect more polished (but not always – so check your own work).

Let’s go to Format and Picture Border and then just add a black border here.

Now the trick here is going to be lining up the zoom animation so that matches the animation of the lines, finishing right at the end along with them.

Let’s clean up the timing here a little bit.

Let’s select all the lines and drag them to the top here so they’re first in the sequence.

Now the zoom effect is going to be on the small eyeball that’s behind the large one.

However, in order to be able to work with it to adjust the timings, we need to send that black and white picture backwards so the small eye is visible – so let’s do that here… select the black and white picture and send it backward.

To summarize, the small eye is called Picture 7 and the large eye is called Picture 15 in the animation pane. As I mentioned earlier, what we need is for the small eye to grow, then right at the end, the big eye will fade in to replace it.

The tricky part now comes from trying to line up the timings so that the lines go across the small eye just as it zooms – so it looks like the lines are creating the zoom. You have to just test out the best combination of timing and duration for both the lines and the eye on your picture.

For example, I’m going to start by giving the eye zoom (Picture 7) a duration of .1 first. Nice round number and looks good with the size of the picture.

PowerPoint-Zoom-Step-3.14-lining-up-the-animations

Now I’ll give it a delay of .9. This is because we want the lines to start moving a bit before the zoom begins.

I also want the total of the delay and the duration for the eye zoom to equal the total duration of the lines (.9+.1 = 1 second).

Now we go to the large eye (Picture 15) and change that animation to start After Previous so it appears right when the small eye ball finishes its zoom. Also give it also a duration of .1 to make it blend in with the rest of the effect.

With this timing, we are close – it looks ok, but the small eyeball doesn’t zoom quite fast enough to keep up with the lines.

So, what that means is we actually have to make it start earlier and be a little bit slower so that it ends up finishing right when the lines do.

So, let’s make it .13 in duration and make the delay .87. 

This still adds up to 1 but is slightly adjusted.

This looks much, much better.  Small adjustments can really make a difference.  Settling on this timing / delay combination has actually taken a lot of experimentation – so try various timings and delays on the Grow animation to match the lines (and/or change the timing of the lines too).

Once you get it, it’s magic.

Ok, the hard part is over.

To polish this further, let’s make the black and white picture come in right after the zoom effect happens. So make it start With Previous, and give it a .25 second duration.

Finally, let’s make the lines fade out after they come in (this part is optional, if you like the way it looks).

So, let’s select them again (by clicking and holding down SHIFT). Then, click on “add animation,” then go to Exit animation and select Fade.

Set these to also start With Previous so they fade out with the black and white picture.

Now just preview your work in Presentation mode and see what it looks like. Make any final adjustments you like.

And cool – you are all done!

Adding this effect to your presentation will instantly increase its level of professionalism and add some SERIOUS spice.

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The Zoom PowerPoint Templates are predesigned and ready-to-use pictorial designs that depict the zoom-in effect of your presentation content to your audiences. It is available in a variety of layouts and sizes. These templates are adaptable and can be used in various industries and organizations, and you can download and modify any of these templates to suit your needs.

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A Zoom Template is an informative template that gives your audience a close-up view of your presentation contents. The idea of zooming began in filmmaking as a technique to take a close-up shot of the scene. This technique helps focus on an important part of the scene.

It is used to depict cogent points and help your audience to understand them. You can use any of these templates for informal or formal presentations. They help save time, energy, and resources. Using these templates makes your presentation visually appealing and communicates efficiently to your audience without hassle.

Browse through our collection of Zoom Powerpoint Templates to select the one suitable for your next presentation. Also, our Zoom PowerPoint Templates are Mac and Windows-supported. You can also run them on Keynotes, Office365, and Google Slides. You can edit the templates’ placeholder content, color, fonts, and font size. It makes the slides personal, and your audience will pay attention.

What is the purpose of the Zoom PowerPoint Template?

Zoom PowerPoint Templates are used to return to sections of your presentation that you want to emphasize or to highlight how different parts of your presentation connect. It is significant because it depicts essential points and allows your audience to understand them quickly at a glance.

What Powerpoint Format Is Best For Zoom?

When giving a presentation, the best slide size for your PowerPoint is 16:9 or a widescreen layout. By default, PowerPoint presentations display content in a widescreen layout. On an iPad and other mobile devices, you can use the 4:3 format.

What should a Zoom PowerPoint Template include?

These templates should include the title of the presentation as well as the presenter’s title, organization, and department. The final slide should include contact information such as an address, phone number, website, email, and social media links.

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How To Highlight Certain Parts Of Your PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint includes several wonderful features that will make your presentation stand out and leave an impression on your audience. One such function is PowerPoint’s Zoom Effect.

You can use the Zoom feature to draw your audience’s attention to any part of your presentation. This is an excellent approach to direct your audience’s attention to the most crucial element of your presentation.

This is what a zoom effect looks like in a presentation: 

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What is Zoom Effect?

The Zoom feature in PowerPoint, which was introduced in 2016, enables you to show your slides in whatever sequence you desire. Traditionally, PowerPoint presentations have followed a tight linear style. They begin at the beginning and terminate at the conclusion, and if you need to return to an earlier slide, your viewers will simply have to wait as you cycle through them.

Not any longer. PowerPoint will construct a menu slide and all the hyperlinks for you with just a few clicks, allowing you to arrange your slides in whichever order you or your audience like.

Why use the Zoom Effect?

Interactivity can make the difference between a good presentation and a great one. Interactivity places your audience at the center of your story, gives them control, and fosters trust between viewer and speaker. It dismantles imagined barriers between people on and off the stage. When it comes to relationships, walls are never a good thing.

You can let your audience select where they want to go next by installing a menu system in PowerPoint, and you’ll be able to go to the slide that supports the conversation with only one click.

While menu systems have always been available in PowerPoint, they required a lot of human effort, duplicated slides, invisible triggers, and hyperlinks galore prior to Zoom. PowerPoint now handles all of the physical work for you.

Learn How To Create A Zoom Effect In Your PowerPoint Presentation

Here is a step-by-step tutorial that will help you in creating a zoom effect in your PowerPoint presentations.

Step 1: Firstly, open a blank slide in PowerPoint.

Step 2: Now, go to ‘Insert’ in the menu bar and click on ‘Zoom.’

Step 3: After this, select the ‘Slide Zoom’ option.

Step 4: This will open a window containing all the slides of your presentation. Now, you have to select the slides on which you wish to create a zoom animation.

Step 5: After selecting all the desired slides, click on ‘Insert’ at the bottom of the window.

Step 6: Now, you will get all your selected slides on the blank one. Just arrange them as per your requirement with proper alignment.

Step 7: Once you are done till here, click on ‘Zoom’ and then select the ‘Zoom Style’ as per your desire.

Step 8: Now, select each slide and click on the ‘Return to Zoom’ option. Repeat this step for all the slides.

Step 9: Lastly, click on the ‘Slide Show’ option, and you’re all done!  

So, this was a super simple tutorial for creating a zoom effect in PowerPoint. Adding a zoom effect in your presentations is not a compulsion, but it gives you an extra edge for engaging with your audience in a better way.

In case you feel stuck in any step, you can check out our zoom effect tutorial video.

Wrapping It Up

The zoom effect can be a very powerful tool in a PowerPoint presentation. It can help to focus the audience’s attention on a particular element of the slide and can also be used to create a sense of movement or flow throughout the presentation. When used effectively, the zoom effect can really add to the overall impact of the presentation. Check out the additional variety of animated PowerPoint templates for your reference. In addition to these PowerPoint animations, you can also check out different types of engaging PowerPoint templates and Google slides templates to make world-class presentations.

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How to zoom in and out on part of a powerpoint presentation.

Magnify parts of your presentation by taking advantage of PowerPoint's different zoom features.

Microsoft PowerPoint lets you zoom in and out on a specific part of your PowerPoint slideshow, which can be handy both while editing and for drawing attention to important objects or ideas during the presentation. Here’s how to do it.

Whether you’re in normal view or slideshow view, PowerPoint lets you zoom in and out as the need arises. There are a few ways you can do this, depending on which view you're in.

The first method is by using the zoom bar at the bottom-right of the window (which isn’t available in the slideshow view). This method is convenient as the zoom bar is immediately accessible. To use the zoom bar,  click and drag the bar left or right to zoom out or in, respectively. You can also resize the slide to fit your current window by clicking the box to the right of the zoom bar.

Another method is using the “Zoom” tool, found on the “View” tab.

In the “Zoom” window, you can select a zoom percentage from the list of available options or enter a precise percentage into the “Percent” box. Once ready, click “OK,” and your slide will zoom to the selected amount.

Those two methods are great for when you're editing and need to take a closer look at something. But if you’re in the middle of giving your presentation and want to zoom in on a specific part for emphasis, you can do that too.

Select the magnifying glass from the presenter view and then click the part of the slide you want to zoom. Once zoomed in, you can click and drag to move the slide around. When you’re finished, click the magnifying glass again to zoom back out.

One last tip: In both normal and slideshow view, you can hold the Ctrl key while scrolling your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. This also works if you want to resize your slide thumbnails .

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Michigan man driving during viral Zoom court hearing had license suspension lifted in 2022

A Michigan man who went viral after a judge noticed him driving while he attended a virtual Zoom court hearing with a "suspended license" is being vindicated by an apparent clerical error.

Corey Harris , 44, attended the virtual hearing May 15 for charges related to an October traffic stop in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. A clip from the hearing spread like wildfire across the internet last week, with many in disbelief that Harris would drive with a suspended license right in front of Judge Cedric Simpson.

After noticing what Harris was doing, Simpson revoked his bond and ordered him to turn himself in at the Washtenaw County Jail by 6 p.m. that day. What Simpson and no one in the courtroom apparently knew was that another judge had rescinded Harris' license suspension in January 2022, according to Saginaw County court records obtained by USA TODAY on Monday.

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Why didn't court know Harris' license had been reinstated?

Harris' license had been suspended during a now-settled child support case with Saginaw County Friend of the Court before it was ordered reinstated, court records show.

The reason Simpson and no one in the courtroom knew about the reinstatement is because the Michigan Secretary of State's office never received a clearance from the Saginaw County Friend of the Court, reported WXYZ-TV , which was the first outlet to track down the clerical error in court records.

Without clearance, the lift on Harris' license never officially went into effect, according to the Detroit-based TV station.

USA TODAY contacted the Michigan Secretary of State's office and Simpson's chambers but did not receive a response. The Washtenaw County Public Defender's Office, which represents Harris in the ongoing case, was closed when USA TODAY called.

'I don't even know why he would do that'

Simpson's ruling came as Harris was driving his wife to the doctor due to a worsening medical condition, WXYZ-TV reported.

"I don't even know why he would do that," Simpson can be heard saying about Harris in the now-viral video clip.

When Harris heard Simpson order him to jail, his mouth fell open.

WXYZ-TV interviewed Harris , asking him what was going through his mind during the now-viral hearing.

"What was I thinking? I was thinking about getting my wife medical help. That's what I was thinking," Harris told the TV station. "I wasn't thinking about the fact that I got a suspended license. I don't care about all that."

'It's very embarrassing'

Harris spent two days in jail after the hearing, abiding by Simpson's order and turning himself in. Although Harris did the time, he told WXYZ-TV that the license suspension was "supposed to have been lifted two years ago, but they didn't."

"It's very embarrassing," Harris said about the whole situation.

Khyla Craine, deputy legal director for the Michigan Secretary of State, told the station that the process to get a driver's license reinstated "can be complicated."

"Sometimes it is simple as we at the Secretary of State's office did not get a clearance from the court that everything was done, but something happened in the wires, and we needed to talk to the court to get the clearance and clean it up for the resident," Craine said.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Michigan man driving during viral Zoom court hearing had license suspension lifted in 2022