INTRODUCTORY MICROSOFT POWERPOINT Lesson 2

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INTRODUCTORY MICROSOFT POWERPOINTLesson 2
Enhancing a PowerPoint Presentation
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Objectives

• Create a new presentation.
• Format slides.
• Work with text on slides.
• Use the slide master.
• Add multimedia to slides.
• Add a slide.
• Add a header or footer.
• Use slide transitions.
• Format a single slide.

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Terms Used in This Lesson

• Animate
• AutoContent Wizard
• Design template
• Effects options
• Hyperlink
• Motion path
• Placeholder
• Show Advanced Timeline
• Slide master
• Slide transitions

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Creating a Presentation

• When you start PowerPoint, the task pane displays
  four choices
• Open a presentation
• New
• Blank Presentation - create a presentation from
  scratch
• From Design Template templates are already
  formatted with colors, fonts, and layouts
• From AutoContent Wizard - guides you through a
  series of questions about the type of
  presentation, output options, presentation style,
  and presentation options
• New from existing presentation
• New from template

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Applying a Design Template

• Design templates are pre-designed graphic styles
  that you can apply to your slides. You can change
  the color scheme, font, formatting, and layout of
  your slides in a design template to create a
  different look.

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Format a Single Slide

• You can use a design template to change the
  appearance of a single slide without changing the
  rest of the slides in the presentation.

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Use the Slide Master

• The slide master controls the formatting for all
  the slides in the presentation.
• You can use the slide master to change such items
  as the font, size, color, style, alignment,
  spacing, and background.
• Changing the slide master affects the appearance
  of all of the slides and gives them a consistent
  look.
• You can add headers and footers to slides and
  also place an object, such as a logo or graphic,
  on every slide by placing the object on the slide
  master.

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Check Spelling and Style

• Automatic spell checking identifies misspellings
  and words that are not in its dictionary by
  underlining them with a wavy red line immediately
  after you key them.
• PowerPoint determines if your presentation
  conforms to the standards of good style. For
  instance, title text size should be at least 36
  points and the number of bullets on a slide
  should not exceed six. It will also alert you to
  problems with visual clarity such as appropriate
  font usage and legibility, and inconsistent
  capitalization, and end punctuation.

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Adding a Slide

• You can add a slide to a presentation by clicking
  the New Slide button on the toolbar. In the
  Normal view, PowerPoint places the new slide
  after the currently displayed slide.
• Another way to add a slide is to copy it from
  another presentation. Choose Slides from Files
  from the Insert menu. Locate the presentation
  from which you want to copy a slide and click
  Display. Select the slide you want to copy and
  click Insert. PowerPoint inserts the slide after
  the one displayed on the screen.

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Formatting Slides

• To change the layout of text or graphics on
  slides, you can use the programs preset layouts.
  
• PowerPoint includes 27 AutoLayouts you can choose
  from to create a new slide or change the layout
  of an existing slide.
• Layouts include placeholders for text, columns,
  bulleted lists, clip art, tables, organization
  charts, objects, graphs, and media clips.

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Using Multimedia

• Working with Clip Art
• Custom Animation
• Insert a Hyperlink
• Adding a Sound

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Adding a Heading or Footer

• You can add a header of footer on the Slide
  Master or by selecting Header and Footer from the
  View menu.
• The AutoContent Wizard automatically creates a
  footer during the setup process.
• You can add the date and time, slide number, and
  any text you want to the footer of the slide.
• When you click the Notes and Handouts tab you
  also have the option of creating a header.

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Use Slide Transitions

• Slide Transitions determine how one slide is
  moved from the screen and how the next one
  appears.
• To set the transitions between slides, choose
  Slide Transition from the Slide Show menu and
  make your choices in the Slide Transition dialog
  box that appears in the task pane.

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Summary

• You can use PowerPoint to create a new
  presentation and apply design templates, color
  schemes, slide animations, and text.
• You can change a presentation in PowerPoint by
  applying slide layouts, adding clip art, and
  custom animation.
• You can add notes to a slide in PowerPoint.

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Summary

• You can change text appearance and bullet
  appearance in PowerPoint.
• You can add a slide to an existing PowerPoint
  presentation.
• You can insert a hyperlink or a header or footer
  in a PowerPoint presentation.