Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

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Creating a PowerPoint Presentation
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What is it?

• Program designed to create mixed text and
  graphics.
• Usually organized by slides.
• More graphic oriented that a Word Processor.
• Typical uses
• Computer Slide Shows
• Free running presentations (open house)
• Overheads

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Why use this?

• Easy to use
• Professional looking presentation
• Text based presentations are quickly created
• Presentations can be easily created
• Presentations can be rearranged for other
  audiences
• Presentations easily converted from one media to
  another

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Presentation Guidelines

• Consider your output device (color)
• Use large type font
• Dont use lots of text
• One topic per slide
• Use colors that have high contrast
• Use a simple consistent color scheme

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Presentation Guidelines

• Pace your presentation for the audience
• If the audience is taking notes, spend more time
  per slide.
• If audience is not taking notes, then use more
  graphics and less notes.
• Use graphics to illustrate a point when possible
• Always use a chart to show data
• Data can be imported

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Advantages of PowerPoint's

• Quick
• Easy to change
• Can contain animations
• Easy to include graphics
• Using windows it is easy to change between
  applications.

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Terms

• Slide-single screen or page
• Transition-Blending from one slide to another
• Build-Adding one bullet at a time
• View-Methods of looks and working with a slide
  show.

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PowerPoint Views

• Outline View-Fastest way to create a presentation
• Sorter view-Used to sort slides, add transitions,
  and animations
• Notes view-Add notes for the presenter
• Notes can be printed to create a presenters
  notebook
• Slide show-Runs a presentation

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Outline View

• Use to see the slide in a text format
• Insert or paste from other texts

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Slide View

• Use to see the slide graphically
• Add graphics and drawing
• Insert or paste graphics
• Take care to maintain aspect ratio
• Animations

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Sorter View

• Used for setting transitions
• Used to move slides
• Cut and paste

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Master Slides and Wizards

• The master slide is the underlying format
• Wizards can create presentations with canned
  topics.
• Templates are used to create the look of a new
  presentation.
• You can save a look as a template.
• Useful for creating a series of presentations

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Templates

• Similar to word templates
• PPT provides many stock designs
• Create your own
• Creating a Master slide
• Save as template
• Use existing presentations