powerpoint training aug 09
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How to use powerpoint creatively: These slides are here to remind you how powerpoint can be used creatively to convey your message.TRANSCRIPT
Slide Layout will help you determine what types of slides you want to create
What you will learn today…What you will learn today… First, the basics: Starting on Powerpoint
Pick your slide layout Add Text Add Pictures Add Shapes
Create some magic moments with simple items … Text format & colours Pictures Shapes Sound (if the laptop has a sound card) Picture effects Text effects Use Animations Slide transitions
Text
• Getting familiar with the pp layout• Add slide content• Choose new layouts• Insert slides• Format text• Autofit for text• Aligning• Bullets, fonts, paragraphs• Insert slides from other presentations• • Speaker notes• View
Getting familiar with the navigational ribbon
• Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review, View, ‘Format’
Using Smart Art• Diagrams, concepts ->
Convert text to smart art
• Training– Examples– Applications– Practice
• Real world presentations– Impact– Knowledge sharing– Feedback
Themes and backgrounds
• Why themes– Colour, font– Consistency– Positioning
Pictures and sound
Creating Dynamic presentations
• Up to now, you’ve been learning the static side of powerpoint.
• Now it’s time to turn up the heat with your presentations.
Slide Transition and Animation
• Slide transition – sound, speed, single or multiple slides
• Slide advancement – auto or mouse click
• Animation effects – on text, pictures, with or without sound
• Entry, emphasis, exit, motion paths• Animation order sequence and timings
What about What about these these effects?effects?
• How do the text boxes How do the text boxes appear and drop away all appear and drop away all by themselves?by themselves?– Custom animation!Custom animation!– Effects on Entrance and ExitEffects on Entrance and Exit
Trees…Trees…and and
your lifeyour life
Save the world!
Hug a tree!
Philosophy session?
Gardening?
Botany?
Recycling
The next page is slightly more conventional
A clean, quiet format can convey A clean, quiet format can convey your messageyour message
Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:
• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going
• You meet lots of You meet lots of fun folk aroundfun folk around
• Great exercise Great exercise all roundall round
A clean, quiet format can convey A clean, quiet format can convey your messageyour message
Tell me Tell me what you what you noticed.noticed.
Commands used: Insert Picture, Slide Transition, Custom Animation
(Entrance)
Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:
• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going
• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk around folk around
• Great exerciseGreat exercise all roundall round
You can jazz it up a bit moreYou can jazz it up a bit more
What do you
think?
Commands used: Insert Picture/Sound, Slide Transition, Custom Animation (Entrance and Exit), Format text, AutoShape, Add text into shape
PicturePicture
2 pictures used here, one on top of the other
(Command: Insert – Picture – From File)
Use the Picture toolbar:
Back picture: Colour – Washout
Front picture: Crop
Picture effects – Picture effects – Layering: Here’s howLayering: Here’s how
1. Insert Picture from file (2 identical pictures)
2. On Picture Toolbar, select Washout for 2nd picture
3. Brighten or Darken as desired
4. Place 1st picture directly on top of 2nd picture
5. Use the Crop Tool to crop the picture to size
6. This reveals the picture at the back
Practical demonstration
TextTextHighlight key words in colour
Slide Show - Custom animation
Add effect – Entrance – select your preference
Start: On click / after previous or with previous animation
Do this for all bullet points
To have the text move away at the end:
Add effect – Exit – select your preference
For advance commands (eg. Timings, you can play around ‘Start, Timings, Effects options etc)
Let’s scrutinize Let’s scrutinize these bullet pointsthese bullet points
Wakeboarding can be Wakeboarding can be really fun because:really fun because:
• Gets your Gets your adrenalin adrenalin goinggoing
• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk aroundfolk around
• Great exerciseGreat exercise all all roundround
1. Slide Show -> Custom Animation
2. Add Effect -> Entrance1. Start: with Previous2. Effect: Strips3. Effect Options -> With
Previous, 3 seconds4. Effects Options -> By
First Level Paragraphs3. Add Effect -> Exit
1. With Previous2. Effect: Fly Out3. Effect Options ->
With Previous, Timing Delay = 1 second
4. Effect options – Text animations -> by first level paragraphs
SoundSound
Notice the tiny icon
Sound file
(Command: Insert – Movies and Sounds – Sound from Clip Organizer or File)
Select Start with Previous (picture) to have the sound and picture coming in together
Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:
• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going
• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk around folk around
• Great exerciseGreat exercise all roundall round
See it all togetherSee it all together
Commands used: Insert Picture/Sound, Slide Transition, Custom Animation (Entrance and Exit), Format text, AutoShape, Add text into shape
Trees…Trees…and and
your lifeyour life
Save the world!
Hug a tree!
Philosophy session?
Gardening?
Botany?Recycling
Hence now you can see it applied Hence now you can see it applied in all sorts of waysin all sorts of ways
What are 2 key motion features covered today?
S_ _D_ TR_ _S_ _ _ _N
_ _ST_M AN_ _AT_ _ _.
In Custom Animation, which 2 effects were demonstrated today?
Ent_ _ _ _ e_x_t
Name some elements that you can include in a slide:
1)Text2)_______________3)_______________4)_______________
Videos and music• Treat this like pictures and sound• Single or multiple movies• With or without sound (double click on video to change
volume settings above in the navigational ribbon)
Powerpoint areas of focus in this section• Slide orientation and size• Slide Master – reduces file size with
images/logos, page numbers, etc• Create tables• Create charts and diagrams
• Shapes, pictures and formats– Home – Drawing, Arrangement, Styles and
Effects– Rotation and grouping
• Smart art familiarization
Alignment of research strategies and resources with client business objectives
Business goals & Objectives Business strategies Research strategies (aligned with business goals)
Commercial
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Profitability
Creativity with text, pictures, sound and animation
• Use layers• Mix and match• Create depth and tone • Use a style appropriate to your message• Engage your audience
More tricks beyond Powerpoint in the boardroom• Conversions – photos and slides• Turning powerpoint slides into pictures/images to use in other
applications• Pdfs• Saving as ....(save powerpoint slides as Images/Pictures/Jpeg files)• Sharing powerpoint on the web with others around the world
At the end of the day it is about ...• Intention and expectations•Audience•Creativity•Having fun•Constant curiosity, learning•Practice, practice, practice