PowerPoint

Introduction

What is PowerPoint• Microsoft Program

• Called a presentation graphics program

• A program that combines word processing with a graphics program

• Purpose is to make a slide show

• A project is called a presentation

How can I work on a Presentation?

• 4 Choices– Blank

• Nothing set up on the slide-do it all from scratch

– Design Template (Installed Templates)

• Design template-your slide elements are already put on the slide for you

• Create on the slide

– Outline View

• Type in words similar to word processing

– Open Existing presentation

Normal View

Slide View

Notes View

LIST OF

SLIDES

OUTLINE VIEW

Slide View

Notes View

OUTLINE VIEW

SLIDE SORTER VIEW

DIFFERENT VIEWS

• Normal

• Outline

• Slide Sorter

Command for Design Template

• Start– File

– New

– Choose your template

• Change or add in the middle of a PP– Use the Design Tab

• Themes (installed themes or download)

• Variants

• Color Schemes

• Font Schemes

Design Template

• Sets up 6 elements on your slide– Background– Font color– Font size– Font face– Placeholder text– Bullets

Look at this font

◼ What do you see?

⚫ Is the color the same?

◼ Black or some other color

⚫ Is the font face the same?

◼ Times New Roman?

◼ Arial?

⚫ Are the bullets the same?

⚫ Are the text boxes in the same

place?

Look at this font

⚫What do you see?

Is the color the same?

⚫Black or some other color

Is the font face the same?

⚫Times New Roman?

⚫Arial?

Are the bullets the same?

Are the text boxes in the same place?

Look at this font

◼ What do you see?

◼ Is the color the same?

◼ Black or some other color

◼ Is the font face the same?

◼ Times New Roman?

◼ Arial?

◼ Are the bullets the same?

◼ Are the text boxes in the same place?

Adding Text to a slide• To add text, you must have a text

box

• To add a text box, – Insert

– Text Box

– Click on slide

– And drag

• Design template sets up text boxes for you

See the text placement

This is a title slide

Here is another title

slide

With a subtitle box

Types of Placeholder Text

– Click and type• Simply click in the placeholder text box

and type your text• If you don’t type anything, nothing

appears in the presentation

– Highlight and type• Text is already in place

• Suggests words for the text• Suggested text will show in the

presentation if not replaced

What’s on my slide?

Slide Formats and Elements

Slide Layout

• Slide layout positions elements on your

slide

• Makes it easier to add elements

• Will appear on outline view

What are types of slide layout?

• Already used:

– Title slide

– Bulleted list

• Look on the next couple of slides for

layouts

2 column bulleted list

• This layout has two

columns

• This is column two

• This layout is good for

lists with short bullets

such as a list of

materials needed for

an experiment

This one just has a title text box

2 column with element shortcuts

• Column one is for

bullets

• Column two for things

like pictures, graphs,

movies etc

• Just click on a short

cut and add the

element

This is what the layout looks like

Here’s the title

• You can add text

• Below you can add elements such as medial

clips

Recap the types of layouts

• Title slide

• Bulleted list

• 2 column bulleted list

• 2 column with bulleted list and element

• Title, text box across slide, and elelment

• Different arrangements of above!

• Blank

The Blank Slide!

• This slide has no text boxes!

• You can do your own thing!

I just added a text box to this blank

slide!

Look Ma! No Bullets!

I don’t like this Layout!

• If you want to add or change the slide

layout

– Home

– Slides--Layout

• You can also reapply a layout

• To find layouts :

– Home Ribbon

• Click on Layout

Slide Sorter View

• This view will show all slides in the presentation

• You can add transitions

• You can preview the slide animation and transition– Click the icon under the slide

• You can move slides – Click and drag

– A line appears where the slide will appear

• You can delete slides

Find Slide Sorter

• In 2007and newer

– Click on View Tab

– Click on Slide Sorter

Selecting Slides

• Selecting slides (or files) next to each other (contiguous):

– Click on the first or last slide

– Hold down the shift key

– Click on the last or first slide

• Selecting slides (or files) not next to each other:

– Click on a slide

– Hold down the CTRL key

– Click on the other slides you want to select

What should you know about

layouts?

• Use Format, Slide layout to get the toolbar

• Generally the different types of slide

layouts

• How to use the layouts

• Know about blank slides

• You can change the layout-format, slide

layout

• You can add the layout to all or one slide

Bet you want to know how to do those hyperlinks! Ha Ha! Find it for yourself!!

What you need to know about

Slide Sorter View• Slide sorter lets you look at the

presentation in one window

• You can do several things in slide sorter:

– Move slide

– Delete slide

– View transition and animation

– Add transition

– Select slides

What you should know about

Selecting Slides• Use Shift to select slides that are

contiguous

• Use CTRL to select slides that are not

contiguous

Remember Hyperlinks?• Last week we made hyperlinks.

– Highlight text

– Right click, Link

– Paste the web address in the dialog box

• You can hyperlink slides

– Highlight text

– Right click, Link

– In dialog box, click on “Place in this

document” found on the left side

– Click on slide to which you want to hyperlink