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Microsoft Office
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PowerPoint 2013
The Art of Presentation
Getting Started
Themes, Slides, and Animations
Templates
• These are frameworks for
the type of presentation
you are creating.
• Photo album
• Quiz show
• Calendar
• Training guide
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Themes
These set the overall look of your
presentation: colors, fonts, etc.
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Theme Variants
 Allows us to customize the
look of a theme.
 Colors
 Fonts
 Backgrounds
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Templates versus Themes
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYdvpjO434c
 “One way to distinguish between a theme and template is that a
theme usually deals with the look and feel of presentation such as
color, fonts, and styling. Also a theme can be applied to an existing
presentation whereas a template is not able to be applied to an
existing presentation. When you think of templates think of a tool
used to lay a foundation for your presentation it automatically
creates slides with design and everything intact for you to build
your concept upon. A template always starts as a new document
and is not applied to an existing presentation.”
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Add a New Slide
Use the prepared slide styles!
You can always change them later.
Use the blank style if you know you
need a custom slide.
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Outline View
• Useful for organizing your
thoughts.
• Top level outline elements
are slides.
• Lower level elements are
bullet points.
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Editing Slide Content
 Add a photo
 Adjust photo to content
box
 Crop photo
 Remove background
 Apply filters
 Make corrections
 Recolor
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Add Notes as Reminders!
 These are only shown to the presenter in two-screen
mode.
 Let’s look at some notes!
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Styles?
 Yes, a simplified version.
 Styles come with themes and templates.
 You can define your own using the slide master.
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Animations
 We can animate…
Box by box
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Slide Sorter
 Lets us quickly re-organize
slides
 Found under “View”
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Transitions
 Move you from slide to slide
 Like animations, can easily be overused!
 Use sparingly for emphasis
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Presentation Design
Titles and text, Formatting, Custom designs, Custom
themes
Adding Text
 Text can be colored.
 We can increase the font
size.
 And decrease it.
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We can make a bulleted list.
• Sub-categories are added by tabbing.
•
Shift-tab brings you back out.
1. Or make a numbered list.
2. With three
3. Items!
We Can Even Play With The Case Of Our Text.
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Adding Text
 We can have subscripts like this.
 And superscripts like this.
 We can change the text
spacing.
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Formatting Text Boxes
 We can format the text boxes themselves.
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Word Art
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Formatting the Whole
Presentation
 Slide master changes every
slide
 Slide layouts change slides
that use that layout
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Structured Elements
Tables, Charts, and SmartArt
Text to SmartArt
 SmartArt from text:
SmartArt from text:
 It is very simple to change
text into SmartArt.
 It may help to convey your
You can even
add shapes!
idea better.
 But choose graphics that
fit the idea!
 Just select the text and Insert
SmartArt!
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It is very simple to
change text into
SmartArt.
It may help to
convey your idea
better.
But choose
graphics that fit the
idea!
Just select the text
and Insert
SmartArt!
SmartArt Editing
 You can work with the
shapes
 Or you can work with your
text.
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SmartArt
But
let’s
not.
all
day!
We
could
with
this
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go
around
Customizing SmartArt
We can customize
shapes
We can set colors
We can format text
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Embedding
The Genesis of Duality in Milton's Paradise Lost
Gene Callahan
St. Joseph’s College
Introduction
'Does one make a present,' she asked, 'of an object that contains, to one's
knowledge, a flaw?'
'Well, if one knows of it one has only to mention it. The good faith,' the
man smiled, 'is always there.'
'And leave the person to whom one gives the thing to discover it?'
'He wouldn't discover it--if you're speaking of a gentleman... He might
know--and he might try. But he wouldn't find.'
'Not even if he should have to say to me, "The Golden Bowl is broken"?'
He was still silent; after which he had his strangest smile. 'Ah, if anyone
should want to smash it--!'
Henry James, The Golden Bowl
Any text may convey to its interpreters a variety of meanings, many of which may not
have been imagined by the author who generated it. For example, the Freudian slip
presents a paradigmatic instance of a text that cogently can be read as having a
significance beyond that intended by its source: when the inebriated gentleman at a
cocktail party tells a female guest that she is "looking her breast tonight," while glancing
toward her cleavage, his audience has good warrant for suspecting that the remark,
besides being a mangled compliment, also reveals something about what else the speaker
had on his mind. Similarly, if a man asserts that he no longer beats his children, he
probably did not mean to tell anyone within earshot that he used to beat them, but
nevertheless he has done so.
This polyvocal character of texts also is exhibited by works of literature, typically to an
even greater degree than it is in everyday conversation. While the creator of a novel,
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Tables
CPU
Monitor
RAM
Smith
12
33
12
Johnson
14
14
27
Jones
23
9
16
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Charts
1000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Monitor
CPU
RAM
Johnson
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Jones
Linking to Live Data
 Let’s try this!
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Multimedia
Pictures, Video, and Sound
Take Me to Amsterdam
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Embedded Video
 I tried try embedding Steve
Jobs, but…
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 This seems to be the
problem!
Delivery
Presenter tools, Automating a presentation, Creating
handouts
Delivery Tips
 Slides are novels, they are paintings!
 Make sure your visuals are visible.
 Themes provide consistency.
 You should favor images over text.
 Don’t read your slides aloud.
 A little flash goes a long way.
 Leave time for revision.
 Leave time for rehearsal.
(Source: Office 2013, Walter Holland, Wiley & Sons.)
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