PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT PDM9L6
MS POWERPOINT 1
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this practical students should be able to: 
Understand the purpose and make use of different views of a presentation. 
Identify various parts of the PowerPoint interface and understand their uses. 
Create a simple presentation using a wizard. 
Change the design and layout of a presentation using the Slide Master. 
Animate slide transitions and builds. 
Run a slide show. Transferable Skills
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Creating and formatting documents with an industry standard presentation package. Remember to register your attendance.
Remember to check your student email.
Remember to check out the PDM9L6 web pages for any news and
announcements.
Getting Started with PowerPoint
Why use PowerPoint? Certainly when you’re giving a presentation you can just use note cards, but nowadays everyone is expected to be familiar with electronic presentation tools. Using the computer to prepare your presentation brings the usual benefits (you might have horrible handwriting, or not be very good at drawing, and you can easily modify your presentation). If the presentation is to be run directly from the computer then Microsoft PowerPoint allows you to use animation and sound too. PowerPoint gives you different views of your presentation, so you can also prepare handouts for your audience and notes pages for yourself. There’s a spell checker so no more embarrassing typos. There are built in layouts so you can guarantee a uniform look for your slides. You’ll probably find more as you use it, so let’s get started! COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 1 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT We’ll create a simple presentation extolling the many virtues of PDM9L6 . Don’t forget to save as you go along. Start PowerPoint!
Select New from the File Tab An easy way to create a new presentation is to use the New Presentation Dialogue. This dialogue allows you to create a new presentation based upon existing templates and categories. Let’s use a template available from the online Microsoft library, called “Student Presentation”. Type in “student presentation” in the search box. Then press the little arrow icon to search office.com for this presentation style. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 2 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Once the style is found, select Download to download the style to your computer. You presentation template will now display for you. The presentation contains dummy slides which you can either edit or delete as your develop your presentation. This presentation is based upon a student‐orientated template, hence the project‐based slides. Save your work so far! Remember to check where PowerPoint suggests you save – make sure you’re saving in your home folder on the H: drive. You should have something like this: COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 3 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT We could have chosen a different template, which would have given different slides (both in style and in outline content).This worksheet will cover how to modify the presentation to include the information you want, and o change its style, but first...
Screen Layout and Presentation Views
As with every office application, PowerPoint has its own window and set of tabs and panels. Remember, if you want to find out what a button does, position the mouse pointer over the button and a little description will appear underneath (called a ToolTip). PowerPoint provides a few different ways of viewing a presentation. The different views can be accessed from the little toolbar at the bottom right of the window or from the View tab on the Document Views panel.
We are just viewing the same file in different ways, facilitating different sets of functions. Each view has its own function although some of these functions are available in more than one view. As we create the presentation we’ll examine each of these in more detail. What follows is a brief description of each view. We’ll see how to use them all later in the worksheet. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 4 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Presentation Views
Normal View. This is really several views for the price of one, shown in three panes. The main pane allows you to look at any individual slide and edit the text and/or pictures in it. You will find this view very useful because you can see the results as you edit the slide (remember WYSIWYG?). In the left pane you can view an outline of the document contents. In the bottom pane you can view and edit notes (see below). Slide Sorter View. This looks a bit like ‘Print Preview’ for Word documents. You see small versions (thumbnails) of the slides and you can rearrange the sequence and create animations between them. This is the best place to think about (and change) the overall design of the slide show, ordering of slides, and so on. Notes Page View. This is available as a separate view from the view menu and as part of the Normal View. In addition to the actual slide show, you may want to attach some notes to each slide for the speaker to use. A version of the slide show with these notes can be printed out for the speaker and could contain the additional commentary to be used during the presentation. In Normal View there is a window at the bottom in which you can click to add notes.
Slide Show. This is the view that the audience will see: just the slides, complete with animations, filling the whole screen. Reading View. This is very similar to Slide Show but you will also see the PowerPoint title band at the top of the screen and the PowerPoint status bar and the Windows task bar displayed at the bottom of the screen. Outline View (the left pane in Normal View)
Go to normal view. When in normal view, the left hand side of the window will contain two tabs offering different outline views of your presentation. The Outline tab presents the text of the whole presentation as a nested and bulleted list. The outline view is handy when you’re just starting out. You can plan the major topics you want to cover and add some of the subsidiary points you want to talk about. Note you can resize the different panes by dragging the dividers around; try it! COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 5 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT The New Presentation Dialogue has provided you with 9 slides in this show and has inserted some dummy text and diagrams suggesting the kind of thing you might want to talk about in each slide. Down the left side are numbers and little icons; each one corresponds to a slide in your presentation. The title of a slide is shown in large bold text and the rest of the items on the slide are shown as a bulleted list. A list is good for presentations because it’s better to just put a little reminder on the screen of what you want to say and then talk round the subject. It’s usually very bad to put down exactly the same thing you say – either the presentation is boring or you’ve got too much information on the slide. Text in this view can be edited in the same way as you edit text in Word – just click the cursor where you want to add the text and type. You will immediately see the change in the slide view pane. Of course, presentations can have more than just text; you can add pictures and sounds too. In fact, you could have a presentation of only pictures if you want, with no text. Edit the title slide of the presentation. Edit the first title to read “Information Technology Skills” Edit the subtitle to read “Computing Science and Mathematics” Edit the Student Name to your own name Edit the class name to read “PDM9L6” Our presentation now has a title slide! Let’s go about adding some meaningful content to our presentation. Change the title of slide two to Introduction Use the outline pane to change the bullet points on slide two to the following: 
In the University, we need to: 
Introduce students to computer use 
Provide them with basic Information Technology skills 
PDM9L6 is the answer 
No prior knowledge assumed 
Work at your own pace COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 6 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT To obtain the proper list/sub list effect, firstly type in all the lines above, then select the text of the second and third bullet points and click the increase or decrease indent buttons within the Paragraph panel in the Home tab. Ensure your slide overview looks like the image given. Adding and Removing Text
When creating a presentation, you’ll often need to add or delete slides from your presentation. It is easiest to do this when using the Outline view. ›
Try adding a slide between slides 2 and 3. Place the cursor at the position that you wish to enter a new slide and then click the New Slide button, found within the Slides panel in the Home tab. A new slide is added blank, with one text box for a title, and another text box for content. ›
Try deleting the slide you have just created. Click on the slide you wish to delete in the Outline list. Press the Delete key on your keyboard. You’ll be prompted to confirm this action. Press OK. If you delete a slide by accident, try using the Undo action. Slide View (the right pane in Normal view)
You can see each slide individually. Close or resize the outline pane to make the slide pane occupy most of the screen. To move to the next slide just click in the scrollbar on the right‐hand side or use the Page Down key. To edit a slide in slide view, just click where you want to insert the text and type. Not only does the cursor appear where you clicked, but also a text box appears (that’s what the grey line indicates) surrounding that chunk of text. This is the main difference between Word documents and presentations. Typically, a slide consists of two text boxes, one for the title and one for the body text. Depending on which slide layout you’ve chosen (more on this later), there could be more text boxes and, of course, you can add your own! The purpose of a text box is to allow you to treat chunks of text as a single object that you can move around like a graphic. This comes in particularly useful when you add other objects to your slide such as pictures. The Slide Pane is good for fine‐tuning your text. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 7 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Continue editing your presentation from slide 3 onwards by entering the content listed below. Use either the slide pane or the outline pane to do the editing, whichever you prefer. Actually, use both to get a feel for it. At this point you just need to enter text and use promote or demote indent: don’t change the size or font of the text directly. It’s usually a bad idea to change the size and font of the text in individual slides. These are part of the design of the presentation. More on this later… Here is the text to enter: Slide 3 Topics Covered Using Excel Using the Internet Making Charts Text and Graphics Calculating with Formulas Presentations PowerPoint Making web pages Animations Introduction to Windows Multimedia Files and Folders Saving your work Slide 6 Slide 8 Presentations Getting started Slide 5 Spreadsheets Introduction to Windows Spreadsheets Slide 4 Slide 7 Slide 9 Making Web Pages Using MS Word (again) Slide 10 Assessment Using the Internet One assignment Surfing and searching One Test Email Zero Exams Text and Graphics MS Word documents MS Paint Image Editing with GIMP You will need to add another slide for slide 10. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 8 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Slide Show
When you have finished entering the text, move back to slide 1 in the slide pane. Now switch to Slide Show by clicking the Slide Show button at the bottom right or by choosing Slide Show from Presentation panel on the View tab. Alternatively, just press the F5 key on the keyboard. The slide show starts! It takes up the whole screen. Click the mouse button or press Enter to advance to the next slide. When you’re on the last slide the show automatically stops and you return to whichever view you were in before you started the show. Sometimes you need to have more control over the slides, for example, you might want to go back to a previous slide. A menu is hidden in the bottom left hand corner. It appears when you move the mouse. The Reading View also has some of these controls at the bottom of the screen. The most useful features you will find here are: 
Going back to the previous slide – maybe you’re trembling so much that you accidentally jumped forward two slides at once! Click the left arrow. 
Going forward to the next slide –click the right arrow. 
Jumping to another slide in the presentation. Choose Go to Slide and then pick the slide that you want to view. This is useful sometimes when you want to refer back to a previous slide maybe containing a chart or diagram. When you want to continue from where you left off, you will need to jump back to where you were using the menu again. 
Drawing on the slide. Choose the Pen (there are different styles to choose from) and then scribble away (it’s not permanent)! When you are done, choose Arrow to return to normal mouse operation. 
Ending the slide show early – maybe your audience is sleeping peacefully and you want to make a quick getaway! Anyway, choose End Show. You can also do this by pressing the Esc key.
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How do you make the presentation more exciting (well OK, less tedious)? One way is to choose a different layout and design. Change to Slide Sorter View. Click the slide sorter view button at the bottom left of the screen or choose Slide Sorter from the Presentation panel on the View tab. This is where you can control aspects of the overall look and feel of your presentation. You cannot change the slide content here
The display now shows miniatures of all the slides in the show in the correct order. Move slides about: click on a slide and drag it to its new position. You’ll see a vertical line appearing between the slides whenever you drag the chosen slide to a different location. Releasing the mouse will cause the slide to be moved to this position. Try it! Move slide 1 between slides 2 and 3. Did it work? Now move it back again! Alternatively, you can move among the slides using the arrow keys and just cut and paste to change the order. Add new slides: select slide 4 (just click on it). Now click on the new slide button in the Slide panel on the Home tab. A new slide should appear after the one that was selected. Delete unwanted slides – select the slide that you just created (it’s probably still selected) and press Delete. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 10 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Design
Now we’re going to change the design and layout of the whole presentation. A slide is made up of various elements. In our standard slide there’s a background, title text and body text. This is the layout of the slide. The design of the presentation is concerned with the font style and size, the kind of bullets and so on. It’s important to apply the same sort of layout and design to all slides because if
you change design part way through a presentation it can be very distracting for
the audience. The design is something you should plan out for the whole
presentation. This is also why you shouldn’t make changes to the font or size in
individual slides. As with styles in Word, sticking to Powerpoint layout and design
means that you can change something once, instead of having to change it in all
slides. Note that Powerpoint will often resize text automatically to make
everything fit nicely on the slide. Only as a last resort should you tailor
individual slides: do it after you have applied an overall design and layout.
Switch to the Design tab. Locate the Themes panel. The Themes panel contains a number of preset designs for your perusal. To try any of them out, just click on the thumbnail image of the one you like the look of. ™ Try some out! Pick a design, switch to Normal View to have a good look at it. When you’ve finished saying ‘Wow!’ try another one or switch back to Slide Sorter View. Layout: the Master Slide
The layout of each slide is determined by a master slide. This is a pattern or template for the general layout of the slides in your presentation. Therefore, every slide should conform to the same master slide. Normally you shouldn’t really have to change the master if you stick with one of PowerPoint’s own template designs; however, you may occasionally find that the layout is not to your liking, or you might want to add some special footers with your name and a company logo. Let's have a go! COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 11 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT ›
Select the View tab and the Slide Master view in the Presentation Views panel. Here you can change the position of items yourself by moving the text boxes, changing fonts, and add headers or footers, which will appear on each slide. ›
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Position the cursor in the title area and change the font to Arial Black size 36. You can edit the font by using the Font panel in the Home tab. Try resizing the title area box using the handles to make a tighter fit to the text. Edit the second and third level fonts. Select Header & Footer from the Text panel on the Insert tab. Include the date and slide number on the slide (note that the title slide is different and not included in this slide master), select a format for the date, and make the footer text include your name followed by 'University of Stirling'. When you go back to the slide view all the slides should have changed. Changing the Master slide is therefore much better than changing each slide individually. It’s quicker, and it means that all the slides have the same look. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 12 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT There are other kinds of master too; one each for the title slide (which is usually different from all the other slides because it has different kinds of information on it), the notes slide and the handout slide. To exit the Master Slide View click on the Slide Master tab and then select Close Master View from the Close panel. Colour Scheme
If you’re planning to give the presentation on screen then it’s best to have a colour scheme with a dark background and light text, although this may not be effective if there is a lot of ambient light in the room. If you’re planning to print out the slides to use on an overhead projector it’s better to have dark text on a light/white background. The colour scheme is easily changed. Again, it is part of the overall layout of the presentation. It is important, above all however, to maintain good contrast and readability
whatever colour scheme you choose. You need to take into account the
conditions that your presentation will viewed under and adapt your colour
scheme to suit. As you have just demonstrated, changing the entire colour
scheme can be achieved with a couple of button clicks so, if you find that the
conditions in the lecture theatre don’t suit your existing presentation, well, you
can do something about it there and then. Useful…
In Slide Sorter View, choose Colors on the Themes panel in the Design tab. You’ll be offered a number of different colour schemes. Some are suitable for black and white slides some for colour slides on an OHP and some for online presentations. All of them should provide a sensible combination of colours for the different parts of the slide (e.g. title, body text, background images etc.). As before with the slide designs, try a few out and pick a suitable one for an on screen presentation. The colour scheme can be customized after it has been applied to the presentation by choosing Create New Theme Colors from the Colors menu. This will bring up a dialog window, which will allow you to change any of the eight colours that form the colour scheme. Slide Background
We can make changes separately to the slide background to make it more interesting. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 13 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT ›
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Select Background Styles from the Background panel on the Design tab. Note that this menu has a number of suggested backgrounds which will suit your current theme. If you wish to customise your background with a non‐standard background, choose Format Background from the menu.
Inserting Graphics
Just as in Word, you can add pictures to PowerPoint slides to improve the visual appeal of your presentation. These could be your own photos or drawings (see below), or even pictures or graphics from the Internet (remember, you may need to get permission to use someone else's images). In the Text and Graphics classes, we used a selection of graphics called Clip Art, which contains lots of useful images. This feature is available in PowerPoint as well. Let's investigate! ›
Move to Normal View and navigate to the title slide. Switch to the Home tab and click on the Layout button on the Slides button. ›
Choose the layout called Title and Content (it should be the first one). The slide content should be rearranged to conform to the new layout. › Select the content textbox in the title slide. You’ll know if you are in the right place if the text box becomes highlighted. › Next, switch to the Insert tab, and locate the Clip Art tab within the Illustrations panel. In the Search text box type in screen beans (trust me!). This should result in a selection of … well screen beans! Choose the one which most accurately depicts your feelings about starting PDM9L6! If there are problems waiting for the clip art images, you will find a couple of suitable pictures in the PDM9L6/PowerPoint folder on the Groups (V:) drive. Do the same for the last slide in the presentation to illustrate the before‐and‐after effect of doing PDM9L6! I hope that you will feel that you have benefited from the experience! When you get back to the slide view you can select, move and resize the image using the handles. You can also insert pictures from files, for example, ones that you’ve downloaded from the web. Choose Picture from the Illustrations panel of the Insert tab. Powerpoint has lots of built in picture effects so that the picture you add can look professional. Find these on the Format tab, Picture Styles panel. You can draw your own with the simple drawing tools available, or import pictures from other applications (e.g. charts that you’ve created in Excel).
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PowerPoint also allows you to draw diagrams using drawing tools common to most Microsoft applications. These drawing tools appear on the Home tab within the Drawing panel. Try to draw something like the diagram on the right in slide 3 (Topics Covered). This one is pretty simple – you should try to make yours look more stylish. To make some space for it, change the slide layout first. Try using the Title and Content layout. Then, you can rearrange the title and text areas freely. I recommend using text boxes and lines. Remember you can format any graphic object (text box etc.), after you have inserted it, by right clicking on it and choosing Format Object (or Format whatever). Background pictures
Pictures don’t only belong on individual slides. You can add pictures to the master slide and they’ll appear on all slides. The next two pictures can be found in Groups on Wide V:\PDM9L6\PowerPoint. Find the file crest.gif (may just be called crest). Copy it onto the clipboard (Right click and choose Copy) Go to the master slide (View: Master: Slide Master). Paste the picture into the Master Slide and drag it from wherever it appears down to the bottom of the slide between the footer and the slide number. You may need to make it a bit smaller. Switch to Normal View. The image should be visible on all slides ‐ check it out! We can use an image as the slide background. Go back to the Master Slide. ›
Open up the Background Styles menu and choose Format Background. From the Fill selection, choose Picture or Texture Fill. ›
Select Insert From File and then navigate to the sunrise.jpg picture in the Groups folder where you found the crest picture. Or you could choose campus.jpg COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 15 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT ›
Press OK. Fantastic! Of course, it may not look quite right with the design you choose, but you know how to change that stuff. ›
Another useful feature for picture is Recolor, which you’ll find on the Format tab: Adjust panel. This has lots of preset options to fade out the picture, or make it monochrome. Try them out. Using a background image like this, as a novelty, is one thing but unless you choose the image very carefully, you could easily end up with a very distracting slide show so it’s probably best to stick with a plain or finely textured background. However, we don’t want to be sensible, do we? There will be plenty of time for that in the future so let’s jazz things up even more… Special Effects - Animation
When you move to the next slide in your slide show, all that happens is that the next slide just appears. While this may have impressed you in the past, you now want more, and PowerPoint can supply it! There are two main kinds of animation available. We can: 1. Animate the transition from slide to slide. 2. Animate the way that the contents of each slide build or appear during the presentation. Transitions
To see what kind of transition effects are available: Go to Slide Sorter View. Select the Animation tab and locate the Transitions to this Slide panel. The Transition panel offers you more transition effects than you will ever need. Make sure one of the slides is selected (the first one will probably be selected already ‐ look for the thick line around it). For a smooth, sophisticated transition effect, take a look at, for example, Fade Smoothly or Fade Through Black. For something a bit more in your face, try, for example, Wedge Uncover Down. Just clicking on the effect name will cause it to be applied to the selected slide and also gives a thumb nailed preview. Notice that you can also vary the speed of the transition. You can even add sound to really wind your audience up. You might need your headphones to hear it in the labs, though! Choose a number of different kinds of transition and you will see the effects in the preview panel. When you’ve found one you like click Apply to All Slides if you want the transition COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 16 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT between every slide to be the same (this is generally a good idea) and press the Slide Show button to reveal the full majesty of your creation! You can even vary the transition animation between slides but you don’t want to do that! There’s even a Random Transition option tucked away at the bottom of the list (where it should be). Stylistically this is bad: pretty distracting for the audience. You want them to pay attention to your content not your fancy animations. Build (the scary stuff)
The other kind of animation is a build. You can have all the bullet points on the slide arriving at the beginning, or each bullet arriving on a mouse click. This can be good if you don’t want the audience to see the whole text at once. Of course there are lots of different ways for each bullet point to arrive. To begin to create a build, switch back to Normal View. Select one of your slides, and then select the slide content (in other words, the textbox containing your content). Note that the Animations panel within the Animations tab becomes available. This panel contains options for animating your text. The drop down menu contains a few pre‐configured options which can be applied to groups of text. Typically, this animation is applied to paragraphs. Each paragraph then appears in an animated manner. You can check out these animations by applying moving the mouse over a style and watch the screen … You can also select one and then click Preview (from the Preview panel of the Animations tab), or click on the wee star below the slide miniature. Try out some of the pre‐defined options. You can of course view the animation using slide show too. If you want to apply your own personal animation style, you have to go back to Normal View (as if you were editing the slide contents) and this time select Custom Animation from the Animations panel. Then you can control the way and order in which each ‘chunk’ appears. This can be useful if, for example, you have a complex diagram which you want to build up piece by piece. Exercise
You can customize your own slide builds on a per slide basis by selecting any object on the slide (e.g.title, body text, graphic) and using Custom Animation from the Slide Show menu to adjust the behaviour of the object. Investigate this for yourselves. You may have to remove any previously applied animation from the slide. ›
Animate the diagram on slide 3. You may find group useful so you can make a number of objects appear together in an animation. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 17 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Action Buttons
If you want to give the viewer some control over the slide show or just make it a bit more interactive, you can add Action buttons, which allow the user to select a predefined task, for example, to go forward to the next slide or back to the previous one. To illustrate this, move to slide 2 in Normal View. Inserting an action button is a two stage process: ›
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Insert an action button Attach a link between the button and a slide. First let’s choose a button from some inbuilt buttons provided by PowerPoint. ›
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Switch to the Insert tab. Select the Shapes menu (on the Illustrations panel) and scroll down to the bottom of the list where the Action Buttons are presented Choose a Back or Previous button. Your cursor now changes to a crosshair. Draw your button on your slide. Click and hold the mouse to draw the button. When you let go of the mouse button, a dialog pops up asking where this button should link to. From the drop down menu, choose First Slide This action results in your button linking to the first slide. During a presentation, when you click on the button, you should return to the title slide. Try this for yourselves. Notes View
You might want to add extra notes to the text on the slides to remind yourself of what you want to say during the presentation. Switch to notes page either using the shortcut in the bottom right of the window, or from the View tab. On each page you get a miniature of the slide, and some space to write your comments. These don’t show up in the presentation on screen. COMPUTING SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS PAGE 18 OF 19 PDM9L6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS POWERPOINT Checkpoint
Demonstrate your fully functioning presentation to a tutor by giving a slide
show. Your presentation should include all of the information about PDM9L6,
suitable graphics, a design and colour different from the default, an animated
diagram on slide 3, an action button on slide 2, and examples of builds and
transitions on at least some of your slides.
Now is also a good time to make sure that you are up to date with your
checkpoints. Have you done them all? Are you marked on the sheet as having
done them all? Ask the tutor/demonstrator.
AND FINALLY…
You might want to save your presentation as a template so that you can use the design again. If you do: Open the Office menu and choose Save As: Save as Other and then choose type Presentation Template (*.potx). Give it a suitable name and save it in a sensible place in your home file store. WHAT WE'VE COVERED
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How to create a basic slide presentation using the Auto Content Wizard. 
How to access various views of the presentation and what each of them is used for. 
Designing the layout of slides both individually and from the master slide. 
Formatting the content and background of the slides. 
Adding graphics and animating the slide show Quite a lot really! Warning: It is quite possible to go seriously overboard with all the fancy
features that PowerPoint provides. This can lead to the audience becoming so
distracted by the presentation that they miss the contents. I call this
PowerPointitis. Try to avoid catching it!
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