Create the Star Wars Opening Crawl/Text Scrolling Effect in PowerPoint | Bring The Force to Slides!

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

The opening crawl of Star Wars is undeniably epic! Have you ever wanted to recreate it in PowerPoint? Well, in this hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you how! All it takes is an image, a textbox and a couple animations.

You might also enjoy these videos with more cool effects:

00:00 – Previewing the completed Star Wars text
00:12 – Getting a background image for the starry sky
00:42 – Inserting and formatting the text
01:50 – Changing the perspective of the textbox
02:26 – Repositioning the textbox
03:01 – Adding animation to the textbox for the Star Wars scroll effect
06:02 – Previewing our progress and how we can improve upon it
06:27 – Making our text fade into the Universe
07:42 – Our final masterpiece!

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What else do you want to learn in PowerPoint? Let me know below in the comments!

[garrettchambers]

This is, hands down, one of the best tutorials I have seen.

[HarrySalvini]

So this was VERY helpful! Been using PP for years, but just now learning some pretty cool projects! Thank you for sharing this!

[dannyrosler]

This is by far the best tutorial that I've found on this topic. And it works better than others with a lot of text. Thank you!

I've learned that if the text is too long or too large, the animation may not work or not fly out as expected. As suggested by TTT in other comments, you will need to reduce the amount of text or reduce its size.

[shaunypie]

No way this is super-cool! I am going to use this for an intro on a technically dry presentation to try and warm up the audience! Do keep them coming 🥰

[HP-bqyc]

Happy Star Wars Day! I incorporated this effect into my work presentation today that had NOTHING to do with Star Wars, but boy did it get cheers and applause. Thanks for the great tutorial!!

[BrieGenevieve]

OUT OF ALL THE VIDEOS URS WAS THE BEST ONE THAT ACTUALLY WORKED THAT WAS MORE SIMPLE AND DIDNT REQUIRE STEPS LIKE THE OTHERS thank you

[theoldman]

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for posting this tutorial! It helped me to develop a GREAT intro for a parody video that Im currently working on. Keep up the GREAT work! 😀

[p.g.]

Not sure how many 'comments' I've ever posted online, but it's single figures. But I wanted to thank you for this. I'd consider myself 'Advanced' on PPT, but as others have said, this is tremendous. Thank you, and congratulations for such a simply created tutorial.

[cebarillas]

WOOT WOOT! Worked like magic, thanks!!

[srex]

Outstanding tutorial! Concise and incredibly informative. Thanks

[foijcbl]

Neat. I have some very dry training to deliver and this will help jazz up the presentation and hopefully stop my colleagues from falling asleep!

[bryandorschel]

this was incredible and I can use it for a project, thank you truly

[rkinnett]

Just what I needed for my space presentation to a pack of cub scouts. Thanks for the tutorial :)

[katef]

Thank you sooo much! I am creating a fun project and, though I have not tried this yet, seems easyyy. Thanks again!

[uucf-unitarianuniversalist]

I am so grateful to you! This helped me so much.

[runningruvies]

This is so cool... I created my own intro within 5 minutes. Thx! ❤

[scribtz]

thanks, I will be using this for my upcoming history presentation where I link my sources and I'll also put movie credits but all the roles will have my name

[andrewconte]

You are a genius. So many videos are filled with personal crap and presented by dry, monotone people. Thank you for your concise explanation of how to do this. I have liked and subscribed. You are a genius

[jup]

ok, i lied...i saw your "credit" scrolling of text tutorial and thought that was what i wanted....but no....THIS is what I wanted. THANK YOU!