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Inserting Illustrations, Objects, and
Media Clips
Objectives
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Create custom tables
Design a SmartArt graphic
Format a SmartArt graphic
Insert an animation
Insert a sound
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Objectives
• Uses macros
• Add action buttons
• Insert a hyperlink
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Create Custom Tables
• Use a table to display related
information
• Tables display the styles and colors of
the design theme
• Customize tables to fit your information
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Create Custom Tables (cont.)
Custom column style
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Create Custom Tables (cont.)
• Draw a custom table
• When you have limited space
• When the table needs to be a specific
size
• Click the Table button on the Insert
tab
• Pencil pointer appears
• Drag to create the boundaries of the
table
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Designing a SmartArt graphic
• The SmartArt graphic combines content
with illustrations
Text pane
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Designing a SmartArt graphic
(cont.)
• Each shape in the SmartArt graphic
can be individually formatted
• Each shape has sizing handles and a
rotate handle
• Each shape can be moved within the
boundaries of the SmartArt graphic
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Designing a SmartArt graphic
(cont.)
• Organizational charts
• Illustrate business structure
• Layouts are found in the Hierarchy
group in the SmartArt feature
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Formatting a SmartArt Graphic
• Use the tools on the SmartArt Tools
Format tab to change the following:
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Shape styles
Shape fills
Shape outline
Shape effects
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Formatting a SmartArt Graphic
(cont.)
New shape
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Inserting an Animation
• Use animated GIF’s to illustrate a
point or capture the attention of your
audience
• An animation contains multiple images
that move or stream together when you
run a slide show
• PowerPoint includes a number of GIF’s
• A movie is live action captured in digital
format using a movie camera
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Inserting an Animated GIF file
(cont.)
Animation
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Inserting an Animated GIF file
(cont.)
• Inserting movies
• Insert movies from the Clip Organizer,
the Microsoft Web site, or from other
sources
• To insert a movie, click the Movie
button list arrow on the Insert tab
• Edit the movie using the Picture Tools
Format tab
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Inserting a Sound
• Use sounds to enhance the message
of a presentation
• Insert from the Microsoft Clip Organizer,
the Internet, or other sources
• PowerPoint automatically links sound
files over 100KB
• PowerPoint sounds are Windows Audio
files (.wav)
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Inserting a Sound (cont.)
• Playing music from a CD
• Play an audio track during a slide show
• Click the sound button list arrow on the
Insert tab, then click Play CD Audio
Track
• An audio track can play manually or
automatically during a slide show
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Inserting a Sound (cont.)
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Using Macros
• Macro
• Used to automate tasks
• A recording of an action or set of
actions
• Consists of command codes created in
Visual Basic for Applications language
• Created in Microsoft Visual Basic
• Identified by the file extension .pptm
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Using Macros (cont.)
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Adding Action Buttons
• Action button
• Interactive button used to perform a
specific task
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Play a sound or movie
Hyperlink to another slide
Hyperlink to an Internet address
Open another presentation or file
• Created using shapes from the Shapes
gallery
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Adding Action Buttons (cont.)
Action button
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Inserting a Hyperlink
• Use a hyperlink to “jump to” and view
another document during a slide
show
• A hyperlink is a specially formatted
word, phrase, graphic, or drawn object
that you click to display something else
• Another slide in the same or different
presentation
• Another file in another program
• An address on the Web
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