For those who create numerous PowerPoint presentations and apply animation to either entire slides or to objects on slides, PowerPoint 2010 offers a real treat to you - the Animation Painter. Very similar in nature and function to the Format Painter found in most of the Microsoft Office applications, Animation Painter copies all of the animation from one object to other objects.
To use PowerPoint's Animation Painter, simply click on the object containing the Animation you wish to copy. Then, click Animation Painter on the Animation tab of the Ribbon to copy the animation, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Copying Animation with PowerPoint's Animation Painter
Finally, navigate to the object on which you wish to paste the previously-copied animation and click that object. Upon doing so, Animation Painter will paste all of the previously-copied animation effects onto the currently-selected object.
Like its counterpart Format Painter, if you wish to paste the animation to multiple objects, instead of performing a single mouse click to copy the animation, execute a double mouse click. Doing so will allow you to click on multiple objects, pasting the previously copied animation onto each.