Bring Your Maps to Life with Animated Maps in PowerPoint

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Want to learn how to create animated maps in PowerPoint 365?

You can insert these SVG files into PowerPoint 365 to animate a country map or world map if you like.

Note: Editing SVG images feature is only available to Microsoft 365 Subscribers for Windows desktop clients.

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0:00 Intro
0:12 Download country vector file
0:43 Edit map in PowerPoint
1:45 Highlight first country region
2:23 Add Morph transition
2:42 Add textbox for the region
3:45 Highlight second country region
4:31 Change Morph to include Characters
5:10 Add final slide
5:29 And we're done!

A quick note on the Morph feature
To create Morph transitions, you need PowerPoint for the web, PowerPoint 2019 or PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. Other versions of PowerPoint can play Morph transitions but can't create them.

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Credit for map usage:

MUSIC - Love Aside by Patrick Patrikios

[CrazyGoodPowerPoint]

Hey everyone! In the next video, I'll take this map a bit further and will make it clickable and interactive. So please check that out as well.

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[danilolemoshenriques]

I have watched a tonne of hours of PowerPoint and Keynote tips for years ... your explanation IS by far the clearest, most concise and well explained run-through I have ever come across. And you gave feedback to all your comments. Thank you - like all the others have already expressed. Wonderful work and thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

[sayidhk]

Thank you so much I spent hours trying to find a simple way to animate a map to illustrate time-lapse and most were complicated. THANK YOU!!!

[joannelim]

It's 2024 and this has been a lifesaver for me to map out distribution in different areas. Thank you so much :-) !

[roberthavens]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been trying to figure out a way to get a map in different pieces like this for so long and you've shown the absolute EASIEST way to do it. Thank you! You've saved me countless hours!

[Blockhqd]

Work at home today, Mind-Blown teacher tomorrow. :D (thanks so much!)

[aaronlympanydesign]

Love it! Really clean use of morph transitions here. I’m looking forward to seeing the clickable features you add (you know I love me some responsive slides!) 😄

[jamesreaderhoang]

I'm supposed to find you earlier. Love your videos. Keep up please.

[tlinnh]

Thank you for this!! I’ve looked for it everywhere!! It’s exactly what I want!!

[Hadz]

Completely amazing, very simple and informative. no one could've explain it any better. Thanks a lot man.

[Hvide_S]

Thank you so much for this video! It was very helpful and you seem like such a cool guy. You should have more subs :)

[siena]

For some reason, after duplicating the original map and applied the grouping, animation, etc. the latter didn't work. What did I do wrong?

[saashah]

You are a genius. I will be following all your videos to become a pro

[riziarr]

Keep up the good work, dude!. This is the best and simplest tutorial I've seen for map making animation. I can start youtube career without buy a expensive computer.

[nurainhanisahbintiarahman]

Hye, sorry to disturb you..can i know how can i change the format of the map? because when i tried to put the download world map directly to the ppt, it only appear the svg icon

[upscowl]

Thanks a lot boss. You have unlocked a great tip that could not be found anywhere. I wish more people could watch this.

[andrewmarshall]

Great stuff, looking forward to the next installment!

[rodrigueharakandi]

Merci infiniment! Enfin une bonne solution à ma recherche de quelques jours

[breaintrain]

Amazing, this will come in very handy.
One question, how do i remove unwanted borders, for example, if i want to remove the border between the netherlands and belgium...?
Thanks again!

[ZirothTech]

Love this! Great easy and free way for map animations in videos too!