PowerPoint
Project 1

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

Building a Slide Presentation

Presentation Graphics Program - professional-looking presentations

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

Wizards

AutoContent Wizard - series of prompts
- type of slide show
  - communicating serious news
  - motivating a team
- type of outputs
  - on-screen presentation
  - black and white overheads
Pack and Go Wizard - helps you bundle everything you need, including any objects associated with the presentation

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

3 Main Views

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
Slide Sorter view - thumbnail of slides (rearrange order, add transitions and timings, add and delete slides, preview animations)
Slide Show view - electronic presentation (full screen)

Parts of 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

Slide Design - Design Templates task pane - displays variety of styles
Slide Design - Color Schemes task pane - alter colors used in design templates
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)

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