CHAPTER 8
PowerPoint
More Skills 11 Create Photo Albums from Templates
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PowerPoint 2010 provides several templates that contain slide layouts designed specifically for
creating electronic photo albums.
To complete this presentation, you will need the following files:
䊏 New, blank PowerPoint presentation
䊏 p08_Vacation1
䊏 p08_Vacation2
䊏 p08_Vacation3
䊏 p08_Vacation4
䊏 p08_Vacation5
You will save your presentation as:
䊏 Lastname_Firstname_p08_Vacation
1.
Start PowerPoint. Click the File tab. Click New. Under Available Templates and Themes,
click Sample Templates. In the Available Templates and Themes gallery, click the Urban
Photo Album thumbnail, and then click the Create button. Compare your screen with
Figure 1.
A new presentation is created from the Urban Photo Album template.
Slides from
Urban Photo
Album template
Figure 1
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2.
Click the File tab, and then click Save As. In the displayed Save As dialog box,
navigate to your PowerPoint Chapter 8 folder, and Save the presentation as
Lastname_Firstname_p08_Vacation
3.
On Slide 1, replace the text Urban Photo Album with Aspen Falls Vacation
4.
View all of the slides, and read the content on each slide to learn about the picture effects
available. In the pane that contains the Slides and Outline tabs, select the Slide 2 thumbnail,
and then press and hold the V key and click the Slide 7 thumbnail. Release the V key,
and with Slides 2 through 7 selected, right-click Slide 7, and then click Delete Slide.
Slide 2 is now the Snapshots slide.
5.
If necessary, display Slide 2. Click the left picture of a gear, and then on the Format tab, in
the Adjust group, click the Change Picture
button. From your student files, insert
p08_Vacation1.
6.
In the photo placeholder, select the text Mechanical Flower, and type Wine Country Tours
Select the text New layouts bring creativity to your presentation, and type Art and Social
Scene Compare your screen with Figure 2.
Image and
text added
Figure 2
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7.
On Slide 3, repeat the technique just practiced to replace the bridge picture with
p08_Vacation2. Change the fence picture in the upper right to p08_Vacation3.
Change the picture in the lower right to p08_Vacation4.
8.
At the top of Slide 3, select the text Slide Film, and type Open-Air Farmers’ Market
Compare your screen with Figure 3.
Images and
text added
Figure 3
9.
10.
Display Slide 4. Replace the text Photo Corners with Catch of the Day
Using the techniques previously practiced, replace the picture on the slide with
p08_Vacation5. Compare your screen with Figure 4.
Image and
text added
Figure 4
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11.
In the pane that contains the Slides and Outline tabs, select the Slide 5 thumbnail, press and
hold the V key, and then click the Slide 8 thumbnail. Release the V key, and with Slides
5 through 8 selected, right-click the Slide 8 thumbnail, and then click Delete Slide.
12.
On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the Layout button to observe all other prebuilt
layouts available with this template. Click the slide to exit the Layout gallery without
inserting a layout.
13.
Add the file name in the footer of the Notes and Handouts pages.
14.
Press 5 to view the slide show from the beginning. Click to advance through the
presentation, observing the transitions that were prebuilt into the presentation.
15.
Save
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your presentation, and submit it as directed by your instructor.
You have completed More Skills 11
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