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PowerPoint Presentations
Computer TechMr. Harkness
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Introduction PowerPoint Electronic
Presentations
Purpose
The State Board of Education found that colleges and businesses want students and employees to be able to make and present an electronic presentation.•Colleges use presentations for:
•Reports
•Projects
•Businesses use presentations for:
•Training
•Reports
Your Assignment Learn to Use Power Point Create a Presentation Print Note Pages Give Your Presentation to the Class
Project: All About Me! Preparation Start PowerPoint Wizard Backgrounds, Themes, and Clip Art Animations Transitions Saving and Printing
Preparation You Will Use All Nine of the Following Topics
for Your Presentation: Where I Live How Many People Are in My Family My Hobbies My Favorite Foods What I Want to Do When I Finish School The Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me My Favorite Music My Favorite Sports Conclusion
Think about each of the topics and write down on some scratch paper, some of the most important things that you think other people should know about you.
Include some things that would help make the presentation interesting and informative.
Preparation
Open the Program Click on Start > All Programs >
Microsoft Office > PowerPoint
Auto Content Wizard When you open the program the
following screen appears:
Click on Create a new
presentation
To start this assignment click on “From
AutoContent wizard…
Auto Content Wizard When the AutoContent wizard
starts it will look like this:
Click on Next
Make sure General and Generic are
chosen
Click on NextClick on Next
Type in: All About Me!
For the presentation title
Click on NextClick on Finish
Making the Title Page The following screen will appear:
Highlight the text and type
your own name here
Or you may Highlight the line in the outline
view at the left and type it in
Using the Wizard Template The Wizard Template gives you an
outline structure to follow Each presentation should have:
Title Page Introduction Topics of Discussion Topics Conclusion
These lines on the wizard suggest what content should be on each
slide.
•Now you type a sentence that states that you’re presenting yourself to the class so they can get to know you better.
•Then type your name on the line that says Identify yourself
Introduction Highlight and replace the text with your information
Topics of Discussion Now type in the nine topics
mentioned at the first as a bulleted list
Where I Live How Many People Are in My Family My Hobbies My Favorite Foods What I Want to Do When I Finish School The Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me My Favorite Music My Favorite Sports Conclusion
Topic Slides You will now take each of the
topics of discussion and make a slide for each
Replace with Where I Live
Put the main idea here like “I Live in Ogden”
Now down in the note section put all the details you can about your
main idea: “Our house is green, we have alligators in a pond etc…….”
New Topic Slide When you need a new topic slide
you can click on Insert > New Slide
Click on InsertThen New Slide
In this new slide continue placing the topic in the title box, the main idea in the next box, and the details in the note area.
Themes, Backgrounds, and Clipart
You have two kinds of slides in your presentation so far, a Title slide and regular slides with one bulleted text box.
To apply a design template for your presentation do the following:
Click on Format > Slide DesignA new tool window appears on the right. Use the scroll bar to view and then choose a new
design
Backgrounds If you don’t want a theme you can
make a custom background by right-clicking on the slide
The following box will appear:Click on Background
This window
will appear,
now click on the expand button
Backgrounds From the custom background
dialog box you can choose: Colors More Colors Fill Effects
Click a color here to change the
background color
Click here to choose more colors
Click here to choose effects like pictures, textures, and
gradients
Custom Backgrounds cont.
When you click on
gradient you can choose from these options to
change the entire
backgroundThis shows a preview of
the background
Choosing this tab allows you to choose from the
textures
This tab allows you to choose patterns for the background. You can choose the two colors
also.
Be careful using patterns because they sometimes
make it hard to read the screen
You can use a photo for the background. Click on Select picture >My
Computer > busdir (G:) > photohm and there
are 326 different photos to choose from
Title and Slide Masters When you chose a custom
background the extra graphics in the theme remained
To take these out so that your background has just what you want in it choose View > Master > Title Master
You might not want this blue shape on your
slide now so click on View
Click on Master > Slide Master
From here you can click on the blue shape and then press the Delete
key
You probably want to delete the red line also by clicking
on it and pressing the Delete key. Then Close
Master Slide
Changed Slide Master Here is the slide after changing the
Slide Master.
Clip Art For your assignment you need one
clip art for each slide. Do not download any; just use the
clip art that is provided by Microsoft Office Professional
Click on Insert > Picture > Clip Art
To insert clip art click on Insert > Picture >
Clip ArtWhen this box appears type a subject in the
search for box and click on GO
Click on the Picture to insert it in your
slide
You can resize the clip-art by clicking on one of the corner handles and
dragging to be larger or smaller.
Click on the clip-art and
hold the button down to drag an
place it where you want it on your slide
Transitions A transition is how you get from
one slide to the next Choose a transition by clicking on
Slide Show > Slide Transition
From this box you choose the
effect and timing. For this presentation
choose Automatically
after and put in 6 seconds
You can choose a transition for each slide, but for now click on Apply to
All
Printing You need to print your note pages You will use the note pages to give
your presentation Click on File > Print
To print note pages click on File > Print
Click on the expand menu
button and then on Note Pages in the
Print What box
Then click on OK
Rehearse Timings To view your presentation and set
the timing duration for each slide click on Slide Show > Rehearse Timings
The timing box appears in the upper left hand corner. You click on the right arrow when you are ready for the next slide. Use your
note pages to give your presentation, click on the right
arrow to move ahead to the next slide.
When you are finished save the timings and rehearse it again by pressing F5.
You may go back and change the timings by running Rehearse timings again or going to the individual slide and clicking on Slide Show > Slide Timings and adjusting the seconds.