How to Combine Motion Paths in PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 allows you to create motion paths for your objects, making them move across the screen during your presentation. If you create more than one motion path, the object will complete the first one, then jump back to its original position and move along the second one. If you don't want the object to jump back to its original spot, you'll have to combine the two paths into one.
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Instructions
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Open the PowerPoint 2010 presentation where you want to add your animation. Click the slide you want to animate from the list of slides on the left side of the PowerPoint window.
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Click the object you want to animate, and then click the "Animation" tab at the top of the screen. Select the "Add Animation" button, located in the ribbon, then scroll down to "Motion Paths" and choose the type of motion path that you want to use. You can also click "More Motion Paths" to gain access to a more robust list of possible paths. The path will appear on your slide.
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Click on the motion path on your slide. You will see the eight movement points appear, just like they appear around any object you select. Click and drag on the movement points to change the shape of the motion path, or click and drag on the entire path to move it. The motion always begins where the green arrow is located, and end where the red arrow is located.
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Select the object that you are adding motion to and repeat the process to create another motion path. Adjust the second motion path to your desired shape in the same way that you did for the first path.
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Click on the second motion path and drag it across the screen so that the green arrow on the second motion path aligns with the red arrow on the first path. The object will now start the second motion path without jumping back to its original position.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to move both paths as one, click on the first path and then hold "Ctrl" while you click on the second. You can now click and drag both motion paths across the screen without moving them relative to each other.
