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Slide Layout will help you determine what types of slides you want to create

What you will learn today…What you will learn today… First, the basics: Starting on Powerpoint

Pick your slide layout Add Text Add Pictures Add Shapes

Create some magic moments with simple items … Text format & colours Pictures Shapes Sound (if the laptop has a sound card) Picture effects Text effects Use Animations Slide transitions

Text

• Getting familiar with the pp layout• Add slide content• Choose new layouts• Insert slides• Format text• Autofit for text• Aligning• Bullets, fonts, paragraphs• Insert slides from other presentations• • Speaker notes• View

Getting familiar with the navigational ribbon

• Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review, View, ‘Format’

Using Smart Art• Diagrams, concepts ->

Convert text to smart art

• Training– Examples– Applications– Practice

• Real world presentations– Impact– Knowledge sharing– Feedback

Themes and backgrounds

• Why themes– Colour, font– Consistency– Positioning

Pictures and sound

Creating Dynamic presentations

• Up to now, you’ve been learning the static side of powerpoint.

• Now it’s time to turn up the heat with your presentations.

Slide Transition and Animation

• Slide transition – sound, speed, single or multiple slides

• Slide advancement – auto or mouse click

• Animation effects – on text, pictures, with or without sound

• Entry, emphasis, exit, motion paths• Animation order sequence and timings

What about What about these these effects?effects?

• How do the text boxes How do the text boxes appear and drop away all appear and drop away all by themselves?by themselves?– Custom animation!Custom animation!– Effects on Entrance and ExitEffects on Entrance and Exit

Trees…Trees…and and

your lifeyour life

Save the world!

Hug a tree!

Philosophy session?

Gardening?

Botany?

Recycling

The next page is slightly more conventional

A clean, quiet format can convey A clean, quiet format can convey your messageyour message

Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:

• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going

• You meet lots of You meet lots of fun folk aroundfun folk around

• Great exercise Great exercise all roundall round

A clean, quiet format can convey A clean, quiet format can convey your messageyour message

Tell me Tell me what you what you noticed.noticed.

Commands used: Insert Picture, Slide Transition, Custom Animation

(Entrance)

Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:

• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going

• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk around folk around

• Great exerciseGreat exercise all roundall round

You can jazz it up a bit moreYou can jazz it up a bit more

What do you

think?

Commands used: Insert Picture/Sound, Slide Transition, Custom Animation (Entrance and Exit), Format text, AutoShape, Add text into shape

PicturePicture

2 pictures used here, one on top of the other

(Command: Insert – Picture – From File)

Use the Picture toolbar:

Back picture: Colour – Washout

Front picture: Crop

Picture effects – Picture effects – Layering: Here’s howLayering: Here’s how

1. Insert Picture from file (2 identical pictures)

2. On Picture Toolbar, select Washout for 2nd picture

3. Brighten or Darken as desired

4. Place 1st picture directly on top of 2nd picture

5. Use the Crop Tool to crop the picture to size

6. This reveals the picture at the back

Practical demonstration

TextTextHighlight key words in colour

Slide Show - Custom animation

Add effect – Entrance – select your preference

Start: On click / after previous or with previous animation

Do this for all bullet points

To have the text move away at the end:

Add effect – Exit – select your preference

For advance commands (eg. Timings, you can play around ‘Start, Timings, Effects options etc)

Let’s scrutinize Let’s scrutinize these bullet pointsthese bullet points

Wakeboarding can be Wakeboarding can be really fun because:really fun because:

• Gets your Gets your adrenalin adrenalin goinggoing

• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk aroundfolk around

• Great exerciseGreat exercise all all roundround

1. Slide Show -> Custom Animation

2. Add Effect -> Entrance1. Start: with Previous2. Effect: Strips3. Effect Options -> With

Previous, 3 seconds4. Effects Options -> By

First Level Paragraphs3. Add Effect -> Exit

1. With Previous2. Effect: Fly Out3. Effect Options ->

With Previous, Timing Delay = 1 second

4. Effect options – Text animations -> by first level paragraphs

SoundSound

Notice the tiny icon

Sound file

(Command: Insert – Movies and Sounds – Sound from Clip Organizer or File)

Select Start with Previous (picture) to have the sound and picture coming in together

Wakeboarding can Wakeboarding can be really fun be really fun because:because:

• Gets your Gets your adrenalin goingadrenalin going

• You meet lots of You meet lots of funfun folk around folk around

• Great exerciseGreat exercise all roundall round

See it all togetherSee it all together

Commands used: Insert Picture/Sound, Slide Transition, Custom Animation (Entrance and Exit), Format text, AutoShape, Add text into shape

Trees…Trees…and and

your lifeyour life

Save the world!

Hug a tree!

Philosophy session?

Gardening?

Botany?Recycling

Hence now you can see it applied Hence now you can see it applied in all sorts of waysin all sorts of ways

What are 2 key motion features covered today?

S_ _D_ TR_ _S_ _ _ _N

_ _ST_M AN_ _AT_ _ _.

In Custom Animation, which 2 effects were demonstrated today?

Ent_ _ _ _ e_x_t

Name some elements that you can include in a slide:

1)Text2)_______________3)_______________4)_______________

Videos and music• Treat this like pictures and sound• Single or multiple movies• With or without sound (double click on video to change

volume settings above in the navigational ribbon)

Powerpoint areas of focus in this section• Slide orientation and size• Slide Master – reduces file size with

images/logos, page numbers, etc• Create tables• Create charts and diagrams

• Shapes, pictures and formats– Home – Drawing, Arrangement, Styles and

Effects– Rotation and grouping

• Smart art familiarization

Alignment of research strategies and resources with client business objectives

Business goals & Objectives Business strategies Research strategies (aligned with business goals)

Commercial

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Profitability

Creativity with text, pictures, sound and animation

• Use layers• Mix and match• Create depth and tone • Use a style appropriate to your message• Engage your audience

More tricks beyond Powerpoint in the boardroom• Conversions – photos and slides• Turning powerpoint slides into pictures/images to use in other

applications• Pdfs• Saving as ....(save powerpoint slides as Images/Pictures/Jpeg files)• Sharing powerpoint on the web with others around the world

At the end of the day it is about ...• Intention and expectations•Audience•Creativity•Having fun•Constant curiosity, learning•Practice, practice, practice