Post on 20-Nov-2014
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MS Office PowerTips:PowerPoint
Appy Hour/Prepare for Practice
Fall 2014
Raquel M. Ortiz
MS PowerPoint
Principles for effective presentations Record & Share Customize Beyond PowerPoint: Prezi
Five Principles for Effective Presentations
Principle #1
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DO NOT! <wait for cue>
Good afternoon <pause>
This is a special report from your audience.
Treating your PowerPoint as a teleprompter is a sure way to lose your audience interest, FAST.
Principle #2
Text from: Lorem Ipsum – All the Facts, http://www.lipsum.com
Instead….
Or better yet…
Text “rules”: 4 by 4 & 8H
Four or fewer bullets (per slide)
Four or fewer words (per line)
EXCEPTION: Setting the agenda
Screen height * 8 = Good font size
Principle #3
“Dumptruck” by Peder Hanson. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0, modified by R. Ortiz with images from Microsoft.
DO NOT!
Instead….
Or, maybe…
Principle #4
DO
NOT!
Better!
Principle #5
Show me, don’t tell me!
Pictures Tell The Story
Drab!
West’s Regional Reporters
State cases 7 regions Not geographically accurate Different sizes
Fab!
Image source: https://lawschool.westlaw.com/userguides/nationalreporter/ west_map_reg_v6/reg_reporters_map.html
West’s Regional Reporters
Choose Wisely
Drab! Fab!
Search for Images Search Engines with post search filters
Bing Image Search Google Image Search
Microsoft Office – free for non-commercial use License (under “Additional Terms”)
Creative Commons search Licenses explained
See also: Carli Spina, Images, in Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media, http://guides.library.harvard.edu/Finding_Images
Give proper attribution! A Straightforward Guide to Creative Commons
Types of licenses How to choose CC licensed photos How to give proper attribution
Non-creative Commons* [Author], [Title], [Year], [Medium], [URL for location – NOT Google!],
Retrieved [Date Retrieved]
* Emilie Mathews, Attribution Best Practices, in Art Research, at http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/art_attribution
Recording and Sharing Presentations
Record Your Presentation Record Slide Show (Slide Show > Record Slide Show)
Panopto
Jing
Screencast-o-matic
Share Your Presentation Slideshare (slides only)
Google Drive or OneDrive
Screencast.com (Jing recording)
Screencast-o-matic (recording)
Customizing PowerPoint Presentations
Five Easy Ways Templates
Manipulating Graphics
Slide Master
Automatic footers/slide numbering
PowerPoint Other Formats
Templates
New presentations File > New > [Search]
Existing presentations Design > Themes > [Choose a Template]
Editing Your Template Design > Variants
Manipulating Graphics
Make clip art and photos work for you!
Clip Art: Picture Tools > Adjust
Photos: Picture Tools > Picture Style
All: Picture Tools > Size
Examples: Manipulating Graphics
Slide Master Manipulate the entire look and feel of your PowerPoint
View > Slide Master
Master Slide = changes to the entire presentation Subsidiary slides = changes to specific types of slides
Automatic Slide Numbering/Footers Set Footer & Numbering Style in the Slide Master
Then: Insert > Header & Footer
Exporting PowerPoint to Other Formats
Template (.potx)
PowerPoint Show (.ppsx)
JPEG
Video (MP4 or WMV)
A cool alternative to PowerPoint
Lynda.com = Self-paced video tutorials https://lyndalog.rwu.edu/ Log in with your RWU username and password.
PowerPoint in One Hour for LawyersLaw Practice: KF 322.5 .M53 U54 2014
Learn more about PowerPoint…
RWU Law students, faculty, and staff: Contact the RWU law librarians for assistance with PowerPoint and other
Microsoft Office programs.
We will do our best to help you!
For Additional Assistance…