My colleague Laura Den produces wonderful powerpoints but I find them a bit heavy on the animations. I run the following macro over them to remove all animations and I add back just a few.
Sub RemoveAllAnimations()
Dim sld As Slide
Dim x As Long
Dim Counter As Long
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For x = sld.TimeLine.MainSequence.Count To 1 Step -1
sld.TimeLine.MainSequence.Item(x).Delete
Counter = Counter + 1
Next x
Next sld
End Sub