Week 4:

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• Week 4
• ?Microsoft PowerPoint (Part 2)

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Week 4 Agenda

• Review basic PPT
• Compressing images
• Hyperlinks
• Merging PPT presentations
• Hooking up a laptop and projector
• Running an effective slide show
• Review of assignments for this week
• Lab time

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Tell me about you

• Tell me about the presentations you work with?
• Create new presentations with images from a
  digital camera
• Fix an existing presentation
• Its too large to email HELP!!
• Its taking HOURS to openHELP!!

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Tools and software available

• Photoshop Elements
• Picture Toolbar
• its FREE
• ViewgtToolbarsgtPicture

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How do YOU add images?

• What image type are you?
• Copy/Paste
• bad in the past, not so bad anymore
• Insert/Image
• just about perfect!
• Squoooosher
• Youre just the one Im looking for, well take
  care of your little problem!

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Different strokes for different folks

• Picture Toolbar
• ViewgtToolbarsgtPicture

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Different strokes for different folks

• Select ImagegtRight Click
• Save as Picture
• Format Picture

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What is a Hyperlink?

• A Hyperlink is a connection from a slide to
  another slide, a custom show, a Web page, or a
  file.
• Hyperlink can be text, picture, graph, shape, or
  WordArt.

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Hyperlink Examples

• Hyperlink as TEXT to a File
• Hyperlink as IMAGE to a Web Page

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Merging PPT Presentations

• Insert entire PPT presentations, or select
  individual slides
• InsertgtSlides from Files
• Select Keep source formatting to keep the
  design template of the slides you are importing

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Did You Know

• you can add personal notes to your presentation?
• Just add your own notes while creating your
  presentation. Your notes can say anything, but
  they wont be included in the finished product.
• if there are certain slides you dont want to
  include in your presentation, you can temporarily
  hide them?
• This trick is handy when using one presentation
  for more than one audience.

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Did You Know

• you can print your slides as handouts for your
  audience?
• This feature is great when using slides as an
  outline for a lecture. The audience can make
  their own notes as they follow along.
• you can add a summary slide or agenda to your
  presentation?
• This feature takes the headings from each slides
  (or select just the few you want) and creates a
  summary slide. Move it to the beginning of your
  presentation and use as an agenda or overview.

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Step 1. Getting to know the back of your computer

• Blue VGA port located on the back of the laptop

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Step 1. Getting to know the back of your
projector

• Computer In port located on the projector

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Step 2.   Making the connectionsNOTE Make all
connections BEFORE turning on laptop or projector

• Connect the Projector VGA cable end to the port
  marked computer in on the projector

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Step 2.   Making the connectionsNOTE Make all
connections BEFORE turning on laptop or projector

• Connect the blue VGA cable end to the blue VGA
  port on the back of the laptop.

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Step 3.   Power up Sequence

1. First, turn the laptop on and let it boot up
   to your desktop

1. Then turn on the projector

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Step 3.   Power up Sequence

• With the laptop connected and powered up, you
  will then press
• Fn and F8 key combo to cycle through a connection
  mode.

• Press once to have the projector show what is on
  your laptop screen.
• Pressing both keys again will black out your
  laptop, but the image will still appear on the
  projector screen.
• Finally pressing both a third time will remove
  the image from the projector screen and display
  the image on the laptop.

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Step 4.   Final Adjustments

• Keystone Adjustment
• If the projector is not directly in line with
  projection surface, the image may appear
  trapezoidal.

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Step 4.   Final Adjustments

• Sync and Sync
• Adjusts the vertical image displayed. Can make
  the display larger or smaller. This is useful if
  the projector is projecting at an angle up or
  down.
• Tracking and Tracking
• Adjusts the horizontal image displayed. Can make
  the display larger or smaller. This is useful if
  the projector is not placed directly in front of
  the projection surface.

Focus Adjust focus by sliding focus lever on
lens.
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Step 5.   When youve finished

• Don't immediately disconnect the
• projector from its power supply.
• Switch off using the projectors on/standby
  button.
• Let the fan run until it stops so the projector
  can cool down properly.

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Running Your PowerPoint Show

• Short-Cut Keys (F1 key during slideshow)
• Short-cuts are an quick and simple way to jump
  around in your show.
• You can change the screen color, go to the
  next/previous slide, and even jump to a
  particular slide out of order.
• See Handout for examples.

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Final Project Ideas

• Looking for a final project related to
  PowerPoint? Consider
• Create a really good PowerPoint presentation you
  can use at work. Make sure it has photos, and
  uses some of the things youve learned, such as a
  master edited template.
• Take a previous presentation and improve it,
  either by fixing the size of the images,
  reviewing the design and layout, or jazzing it up
  a bit.

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Class Critic

• In Centra, take poll to answer
• The BEST thing about today was
• The least relevant thing about today was
• Next week, Id like to learn
• Right now, my biggest concern with this class is

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Housekeeping

• Review changes to the syllabus
• Discuss assignments from last week
• Lab time

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Lab time

• Be sure to review the Lab Assignment document on
  the class website
• Due week after it is assigned (posted so we can
  find it dont email it or hand it in)