Is there a way to change the default animation speed in PowerPoint?

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Solution 1

It looks like this option is not available.

However, I found this post which uses VBA code to loop through your slides and change the speed.

Solution 2

As best I've been able to determine, you can't change the default settings for animations, which is complete nonsense on Microsoft's part. There is a solution in your case though. In Powerpoint 2010 the default animation speed for fade-ins is very fast (0.5 seconds), so if you upgrade that particular problem will be solved.

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Tim Pietzcker

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Updated on September 17, 2022

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Tim Pietzcker over 1 year

I do a lot of PowerPoint (2007) presentations, and some of those involve some rather complex diagrams that I like to build step by step, using PowerPoint's animation feature.

I prefer using the "fade in" style, but I find the default medium speed setting too low, so every time I'm adding an element to my animation, I have to go to the Speed dropdown box and select "Very fast". This is getting annoying, so I wonder if there is a way to tell PowerPoint that I'd like my standard animation speed (at least for fade-ins) to be "very fast"?
Tim Pietzcker over 13 years

Hm, OK, thanks. Not really what I was looking for, but if it's not there, there's not much I can do...