MS Power Point
One way to make a PowerPoint slide display animations is to:

PowerPoint does not have an animation feature
Select the slide in normal view; and click Format, Animation
Select the slide in slide sorter view, right click and choose preset animations from the shortcut menu
Click the PowerPoint window and move it around vigorously with the mouse for a manual animation effect

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MS Power Point
How do you add degrees of transparency to shapes such as arrows, so that the slide background shows though?

Use #D style 4 button on the drawing toolbar
All of above
Use the Transparency slider in the Format AutoShapes dialog box
Use the Set Transparent Color button on the Picture toolbar

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