Available at http://planet.uwc.ac.za/nisl/Eco_people/Presentations/

Use this box for your Title

Use this box for your Name, Address, Email

An Optional Graphiccan go here

Dark green font Arial at least 18 point this colour is 70 70 0

Use animation and the effects of BLINDS for TEXT and DISSOLVE for IMAGES– they are quick and effective and bring in by paragraph and then dim after mouse click to a mid grey colour 150 150 150

Give your presentation a header … there is space in the top and it also uses the colour 150, 150, 150 this uses Word Art and can be stretched. Use VIEW / MASTER/ SLIDE MASTER to access

If you need to hyperlink such as this is the URL for NISL if you use this as a template the colour is already set and is 96 132 113. For a visited Hyperlink use this colour which is 204 102 0

Keep within the frame … this ensures it will not get clipped when projecting.

Use Bullet Points as indicated (Square colour is 128 128 0 )

Colour is 153 0 0 Font is 24~36 point Arial ShadowColour is 153 0 0 Font is 24~36 point Arial Shadow

Title: My TemplateTitle: My Template Starting Point This shadow textThis shadow text This is Hyperlink This is a visited Hyperlink (not activated) Secondary Colour 100 100 0 Tertiary Colour is 128 128 0 Emphasis Colour is 204 153 0 Use the Grey shaded Back drop with text

Annotation: Text and GraphicsAnnotation: Text and Graphics Do each line’s annotation separately Use Blinds and set it to fast (not very fast) Use the Effects Option to dim to grey For Graphics use dissolve annotation Ensure that indenting is not hung to do this first

set the bullets to numbers and then back to bullets. Use Box bullet and this green which is 128, 128, 0

Use Rounded Boxes where possible – use Dissolve annotation

Graphics should use dissolve annotation

Make sure that you use the Header to complete headings for each slide and check that every slides have a proper heading – not just “slide 1” and “slide 2” but a full heading.

Links should automatically have the correct colour e.g. Google (new link, not visited) – if not working properly thecolour is turquoise and is a reserved colour for links and is 96, 132, 113

Google (visited link) 204, 102, 0.

Slide Header and LinksSlide Header and Links

To get the features to work require simply copy and pasting of features

Click on the text box and right click on the mouse and a menu should appear and you select the Copy

The move to the slide you wish to past to and right click on the mouse and a menu should appear and you select the Paste

CTRL C and CTRL V are keystrokes that do the same functions

Copy and PastingCopy and Pasting

In Power Point you can copy the entire slide and paste it complete with the correct formatting

When you copy – you also copy the formatting and the annotation style

To Insert text that has the same format you can copy from your Word document and using Edit and Paste Special and then use unformatted text and this will insert text with no formatting so it will take on the formatting set in the text box..

Copy and Pasting – MoreCopy and Pasting – More

ReferencingReferencing Use a foot-note approach. Example ~The nautilus is

similar in general form to other cephalopods, with a prominent head and tentacles1

When using superscripts make sure than they are chronologically ordered e.g. 1,2 and 3.

http

://en

.wiki

pedi

a.or

g/wi

ki/Im

age:

Naut

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pom

piliu

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For one images, if it is a short URL use grey (150, 150, 150) using Arial Narrow 12 font and turn side-ways – otherwise put in notes.

Colour PaletteColour Palette

Regular Colours

Emphasis Colours – use sparingly

Pastel Colours – useful for transparencies