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PowerPoint
Project 1

Using a Design Template and Text Slide Layout to Create a Presentation

1. Projection Device - connected to personal computer
2. Overhead Transparencies
3. PowerPoint Presentation on WWW

  PowerPoint Features

• Word Processing - all the features
• Outlining - import from other word processors
• Charting - all kinds of graphs
• Drawing - shapes, arcs, arrows, cubes
• Inserting Multimedia - artwork and multimedia effects
  • Microsoft Media Gallery - clip art images, pictures, photos, sounds, and video clips
• Web Support - save presentations in HTML format, viewed in browser (publish slide show to internet or intranet)
  • insert action buttons and hyperlinks to create interactive Web presentation
• E-mailing - send individual slide as an e-mail or entire slide show as an attachment
• Wizards - tutorial approach
• PowerPoint Viewer - allows user without PowerPoint to run a Presentation

•  type of slide show
  • communicating serious news
  • motivating a team
• type of outputs
  • on-screen presentation
  • black and white overheads

 General Terms

• text slide - most common type of presentation (bulleted list)
• Bullet - is a symbol (heavy dot) that precedes the text for emphasis
• bulleted list - list of paragraphs, each preceded by a bullet

PowerPoint Window

• Slide - basic unit of PowerPoint presentation
• title slide - first slide in new presentation
• Objects - building blocks for a PowerPoint slide (title, text, graphics, tables, charts, drawings)
• Default setting - particular value for variable
  • default slide layout - landscape orientation
• Attributes - properties or characteristics of an object

PowerPoint Views

• A view is the mode in which the presentation displays on the screen

3 Main Views

1. Normal view - composed of three working areas
   1. Tabs pane - Outline tab and Slides tab - alternate between outline and slide text views
   2. Slide pane - displays large view of current slide
      • enter text, graphics, animations, and hyperlinks
   3. Notes pane - type notes and additional information
      • notes to yourself or remarks for audience 
2. Slide Sorter view - thumbnail of slides (rearrange order, add transitions and timings, add and delete slides, preview animations)
3. Slide Show view - electronic presentation (full screen)

• Placeholders - boxes that display when a new slide is created (all layouts contain placeholders except the blank slide)
  • slide title, body text, charts, tables, organization charts, media clips, and clip art
  • Text Placeholder - titles, body text, bulleted lists
  • Object - placeholder, single element of slide
• text areas - surrounded by dotted outline

Choosing a Design Template

•  design template provides consistency in design and color throughout entire presentation 
  • PowerPoint uses the Default Design template until a different style is selected

3 Slide Design task panes

1. Slide Design - Design Templates task pane - displays variety of styles
2. Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane - alter colors used in design templates
3. Slide Design - Animation Schemes task pane - animate elements of presentation

Creating Title Slide

• PowerPoint assumes first slide in new presentation is the title slide
• PowerPoint assumes every new slide has a title except for a blank slide
• Any text you type after a new slide displays becomes the title object

Text Attributes

• text attribute - characteristic of text, such as font, font size, font style, or text color
  • can be adjusted at any time, before, during, or after the text is typed
  • design template - determines color scheme, font and font size, and layout of a presentation
  • text may have one or more font styles and effects simultaneously

In the Lab 1 (HOMEWORK #10)

• Pages PPT 69-71

End PowerPoint Project 1

Computer Assignment 10

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