Shawna,
If you want to preserve the animations one way would be to select all the
animations in the custom animation task pane. Then click on with previous in
the list next to begin. That would mean all the objects appearing in one
shot without clicking using the animation they were created with. Another
click would bring you to the next slide. If you want to have one click to
make the objects appear, select all but the first animation and choose with
previous.

If you want no animation at all, then delete all the entries in the taskpane
and the objects will appear automically when you reach the slide. Not much
fun, and depending on what you want to achieve in relation to your public,
not always the way you want to go.