When animating typography, it can be useful to zoom text in order to change the screen color and act as a scene transition. In Powerpoint 2007, you can do this by using the “Grow/Shrink” animation under the “Emphasis” category. But there’s a trick to making this work. Powerpoint limits the percentage of zoom to 9999%. However, it will let you stack multiple grow/shrink animations, each with a max of 9999%. So to make text grow to fill the hole screen as seen in the video, you just use two grow/shrinks set to their maximum zoom level and set the second one to occur “After previous”.

Note: You may need to then add a motion path to the text so that it finishes its grow on screen, rather than in the gaps between the letters. Set the motion path to occur ” With Previous” and tweak its length and angle until you get full screen coverage.

Note Note: If you’re outputting this to an Articulate Presenter presentation, you will need to preview the slide to make sure the text ens up in the correct place, since Presenter and ppt display motion path animations differently.