Animate several textboxes on the same spot using the Morph transition in PPT 2019

In my previous article  (Animate several text boxes on-same-spot) I discussed the animation of several text boxes on the same spot using animation.

Starting with PPT 2016 you can achieve this without using any animation. The new Morph transition will take care of this. I am using the same presentation as in my previous article.

Create your first slide with the four text boxes you need. Do not worry about the alignment we will do that later.

Copy the slide three times. Right-click the slide and choose Duplicate slide.

Repeat the process for the other slides (you can also use the F4 function key to repeat the last action).

Now delete the superfluous text boxes on the duplicate slides.

Select each text box on the slide and align it horizontally and vertically using the Arrange button on the Home tab. In the Position objects section select the Align option.

Considering that there is no transition for the first slide you will have to add animation. You could avoid this problem by adding a title slide so that the first newspaper title is no longer the first slide.

Select the text box and add the fade animation using the Animation tab. Double click the entry in the animation pane and on the effects tab provide a word by word animation with a delay of 30 % between words. Start with previous and a duration of 3 seconds. After starting the presentation the text box will automatically appear.

Select the remaining slides in the left hand pane and click the transition tab then choose Morph.

Click the Effect options button and choose Characters. Next to Duration increase to 3 seconds.

Start the presentation and click for every transition between the slides.

Here's the result in a video:

Animate several text boxes on the same spot in PPT 2019

Not all the animation effects are suitable to obtain what we are after. The basic and subtle effects give the best result. In the example below we want to animate four newspaper titles to animate one after the other in the middle of the slide.

Create your text boxes and place them beneath one another but centered on the slide. Under Drawing tools, choose Format tab, Align button and Align center. Make sure that the Align to slide option is active.

Select all the text boxes and add an entrance effect. Next to start choose after previous with the exception of the first animation which starts with previous.
With the entrance animations still selected apply a delay of two seconds for all the animations, you can do that in the timing group next to Delay. If necessary adjust the duration which is half a second by default. In the example below I used the fade animation with a duration of 1 second and a delay of 2 seconds.

Reselect all of the textboxes and add an exit animation. Next to start choose with previous except for the last animation which starts after previous. Next to duration apply the same timing as in the entrance effect.

Drag each exit animation under the next entrance animation.

Now drag the exit animations in the animation pane till they are positioned parallel to the entrance effect.

Drag the last exit animation till you reach a delay of 2 seconds.

Select all of the text boxes and align in the middle relative to each other. Go to Drawing tools, Format tab, choose Align button, select Align middle.

This is how it looks on screen:

Here's a video demonstrating the result. You can see the animations described in this article and two other animations as a bonus.

Start your presentation, all of the text boxes appear one after the other in the desired spot.