Gary Lam

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PowerPoint 97 for Beginner

• Gary Lam
• Teaching Development Unit
• http//www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/tdu
• tdu_at_cuhk.edu.hk
• Oct 98

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Agenda

• Introduction Basic Concepts
• Create your first presentation
• Edit the presentation
• Run your presentation ? Practice Session I
• Enrich your presentation ? Practice Session II
• More to go
• Scala Demonstration

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Introduction Basic Concepts (2)

• PowerPoint in Market
• ver 4.x MS Office 4.x
• ver 7.0 MS Office 7.0
• ver 97 MS Office 97
• Coming Version
• MS Office 2000

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Introduction Basic Concepts (3)

• A PowerPoint presentation consists of a lists of
  slides.

A typical slide
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Introduction Basic Concepts (4)

• A presentation has different formats
• Slides
• Outlines
• Slide Sorter
• Handouts
• Notes Pages/Speaker Notes
• Different formats controlled by different
  Master.

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Introduction Basic Concepts (5)

• Outline vs Design
• Outline means text content.
• Design means slide background, font, bullet and
  etc.
• Outline and Design are independent in PowerPoint

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Create your first presentation

• Different ways to create presentation
• AutoContent Wizard (Practice 1)
• Template (Practice 2)
• Black Presentation

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Edit the presentation (1)

• Modify the slide background
• menu Format
• item background

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Edit the presentation (2)

• Enter Text Content
• Each point start with a default bullet
• Press ENTER for new points
• Press TAB for sub points
• Press SHIFTENTER for new line but no bullet

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Edit the presentation (3)

• Change the default bullet
• Move the cursor to the interested line
• menu Format,
• item Bullet

? ? ? ? ? ?

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Edit the presentation (4)

• Insert a new slide
• menu Insert,
• item New Slide
• OR, short-cut button

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Run your presentation

• Two ways to run the presentation
• menu View
• item Slide Show
• Or, Short-cut button
• Mouse button /Actions
• Left button ? Next Slide
• Right button ? Pop-up menu

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Practice Session I

• Practice 1
• Practice 2

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Enrich your presentation (1)
Shadow

• Using Shadow
• Applicable to text or graphic objects
• Select the text box
• Click Shadow button ondrawing toolbar

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Enrich your presentation (2)
Shadow

• Using Rotation
• Applicable to text or graphic objects
• Select the text box
• Click Rotation button ondrawing toolbar

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Enrich your presentation (3)

• Using Clip Arts
• menu Insert
• item Picture
• item Clip Arts
• You can also insert your own image files
• BMP, JPG,WMF, GIF and TGA format

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Enrich your presentation (4)

• Using Movie
• menu Insert
• item Movies and Sounds
• item Movie from Gallery
• You can also insert your own movie files
• AVI, MPEG format

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Enrich your presentation (5)

• Using Slide Transition
• menu Slide Show
• item Slide Transition

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Enrich your presentation (6)

• Using Animation Effect
• Applicable to text or graphic objects
• menu Slide Show
• item Custom Animation

Fly from top
Swivel
Spiral
Fly from bottom
Zoom
Split In
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Enrich your presentation (7)

• Using Graph
• Click on the short-cut button

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Enrich your presentation (8)

• Other advance functions in version 97
• AutoSharp
• Presentation Conference
• Internet support
• Action button (link with other presentation)
• Able to exchange information among MS Excel, MS
  Word and MS PowerPoint

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Practice Session II

• Practice 3
• Practice 4

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More to go (1)

• Things to be make sure
• Projector is available at the classroom or
  conference site
• The projectors scanning frequency match with
  your notebook.
• 640x480, 800x600

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More to go (2)

• PowerPoint Central
• Microsoft Web site
• http//www.microsoft.com
• PowerPoint is not our only solution
• Harvard Graphics
• WordPefect Presentation
• Scala