Power Point

UNIT 4 POWER POINT

Structure Page No.

4.0 Introduction 135

4.1 Objectives 135
4.2 Basic Operations 135
4.3 Lab Exercises 150
4.4 Summary 151
4.5 Further Readings 151

4.0 INTRODUCTION

Office Automation Products are used all over the industry for performing all kinds
of tasks like word Processing, mathematical calculations, documents
management, Emails, making presentations, creating catalogues and brochures
and websites management. Microsoft office products are the most popular for
Office Automation.

PowerPoint is the most widely used software for making presentations and slide
shows. Now we will learn the Basic features of PowerPoint 2007 which will help
us to create a professional presentations, brochures, graphs and charts.

4.1 OBJECTIVES

After studying this unit, you will be able to :

the basics operations of PowerPoint;

using Templates and Themes;
working with animation and movies; and
working with charts and clip arts.

4.2 BASIC OPERATIONS

PowerPoint is used to create, view and present slide shows that combine text,
shapes, pictures, graphs, animation, charts and videos.

Creating a Presentation

This is the first view which one gets when Power Point is opened. This called the
Normal View of the workspace. There are three main areas in the Normal view:

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Figure 4.1 : Normal View

a) Slide Pane: This is the big area in the middle where the slide is made. This
has boxes with dotted lines called the placeholders. Placeholders contain text
items or non-text items like pictures, charts etc.

b) Slides Tab: On the left is the area which has thumbnail versions of the slides
in the presentation and the slide which is currently being edited is
highlighted.

c) Notes Pane: In the bottom area is the Notes Pane where the notes needed to
be referred during the presentation are written.

Inserting a new slide

Each Presentation opens with a single slide. New slide can be added to the
presentation by selecting New Slide option on the Home Tab in the menu. This
way new Slide gets inserted below the slide selected in the Slides Tab.

The Layout of the slide can also be selected from the gallery of layouts. Once the
layout is selected that kind of Slide will get inserted. If no layout is selected the
default layout slide will be inserted.

A Slide Layout arranges the content of the slide for e.g., One may want the slide
to have a Title and a picture with text or a Title with two pictures with text for
comparison or a slide with just a Title placeholder.

The title and subtitle can be written in the Title placeholder. The Content
placeholder will contain the text or graphic elements like charts, pictures, movie
files etc.

Some of the layouts have two of these content placeholders so that one can put the
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Add a new slide to the new presentation and choose the Layout for the same: Power Point

Click New slide Option on the Home Tab in the menu.

Click the Layout Option on the Home Tab. The List of Layouts is displayed.

Figure 4.2 : Layout Gallery

Select the layout for the slide. Every slide can have a separate layout.
Select two different layouts for the two slides as shown in Figure 4.3.

Figure 4.3 : Graphic Layout

Click on the placeholder to write the title and add text.

The default formatting of the text is bulleted list. Use the different levels of
text within the bulleted list to write major and minor points.
Select the various commands in the Font group on the Home Tab menu to
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Figure 4.4 : Formatting Text

Notes can be referred to at the time of presentation can be written in the Notes
pane at the bottom area of the Normal View. These notes will help to keep the
matter in the presentation slides precise and to the point. These can be printed and
used by the presenter at the time of giving the presentation.

Figure 4.5 : Notes Pane

Click on the Notes Pane and write notes for the presentation
To print these notes, select the Print Option from the Microsoft Office
button. Choose the Notes Page option from the Print What list.

Opening and Saving a Presentation

One can open a New Presentation or open an existing one using the Microsoft
Office menu button.
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Select New option to open a new presentation. Power Point

Lists of templates available are displayed as shown in Figure 4.6. Choose any
one to open the new presentation in the selected template.

Figure 4.6 : New Presentation

To open an existing presentation choose Open option and select the

presentation to be opened.

Figure 4.7 (a) : Open an existing Presentation

To save the Presentation, choose Save option from the Microsoft office
button and give the name for the presentation.

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Figure 4.7 (b) : Save a Presentation

Applying a Theme to the Presentation

Every Presentation can be based on a Theme which determines the look and color
of the slides and gives the presentation a constant look to all the slides.

A Theme includes the following elements:

Background design
Colour scheme
Font types and sizes
Placeholder positions

The colour scheme will include the background colours, font colours, fill colours
or the shapes, borders and table colours etc. The theme will not affect the layout
chosen for the presentation and basic layout will remain the same but will be
implemented with the theme.

To choose a Theme for the presentation:

Click the Design Tab on the menu.

The Theme samples are shown as thumbnails in the Themes group.
When any theme thumbnail is chosen, a preview of the same is shown on the
slide
When the theme is selected by clicking on the thumbnail, it is applied to all
the slides in the presentation

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Figure 4.8 : Theme Selection

Every new Presentation is by default opened with the Office Theme. New Theme
can be chosen and applied as and when required.

Working with Pictures and Clipart

The Presentation can be given bright and colourful appearance by adding Pictures
and Clip Arts. There are two different methods of inserting pictures and non-text
items into the slides.

Inserting a Picture

When a new slide is added, different icons appear on the Placeholder. These icons
are used to insert the non-text items like pictures, clip arts, animation files etc.

Click on the Clip Art icon in the placeholder.

The Clip Art pane will open as shown in Figure 4.9. Search for the kind of
clip needed.

Figure 4.9 : Select Clip art 141

Lab Course Select the Clip that is to be inserted into the slide. The picture will
automatically get sized and inserted in the placeholder as shown in Figure
4.10.
The position and size can be modified as required.

Figure 4. 10 : Clip Art added

Another way is to use the Insert tab in the menu. All non-text items like pictures,
sound files, animation files, text boxes, hyperlinks etc. can be added from this
menu option.

Figure 4.11 : Adding Picture

Once the file is selected, it gets inserted into the slide. The position and size can
be modified as required.

Please note that when a picture is added into the presentation it can increase the
size of the presentation.

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Formatting the Picture Power Point

The Picture or Clip Art can be formatted to change the picture brightness,
compress the picture, change its contrast, or give new picture styles.

Figure 4.12 : Picture Format

Click on the Picture or Clip Art to be formatted.

The Picture Tools -> Format menu appears with various options like Picture
Brightness, Contrast, Resize, Border, Styles, and Effects etc.
Any of these can be applied to the selected picture or Clip Art.

Figure 4.13 : Picture Effects

Arrange the Pictures & Clip Art

After the Picture or Clip Art has been selected and formatted, all the objects on
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Lab Course Choose all the place holders that have to be aligned.
Then use the Arrange option in the Format Tab to Order, Group and position
the objects.

Figure 4.14 : Arrange Objects

Working with Animation and Videos

The Text and objects like charts, graphs, bullets, tables etc can be animated within
a presentation. Special sound effects or visual effects including movement can be
applied to the objects to control the flow of information or to focus on important
points as well as give a better look to the presentation.

There are built-in animation effects within PowerPoint which can be used on the
individual slides within the presentation or the layout can be customized. Also,
custom animation effects can be created if required.

Apply built-in Animation effect to an object

To apply a built-in animation effect:

Select the text or object that has to be animated

On the Animation Tab, in the Animation group, choose the Animation effect
from the Animate list.

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Figure 4.15 : Animate Object

Custom effects can be added by to the objects by choosing the Custom

Animation option from the Animation Tab.

Figure 4.16 : Custom Animation

Adding Slide Transition

PowerPoint provides various types of slide transitions like Blinds Horizontal, Box
in, Box out Blinds Vertical, Checkerboard Across, Checkerboard Down etc.

The same transition can be added to all slides or different transition can be applied
to different slides.

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applied
On the Animation Tab, in the Transition to this Slide group, choose any of
the transition effect option.
The transition speed between the current slide and the next slide can also be
set.
To apply the same effect to all the Slides, Click Apply to All option.

Figure 4.17 : Slide Transition

The sound effect for the Slide transition can also be chosen from the Transition
Sound List.

Add and Play Movie in a Presentation

Movies are video files with formats such as AVI or MPEG. Animated GIF files
which include motion can also be included. Unlike the pictures, clipart drawings
etc which are embedded in the presentation, the movie files are linked to the
presentation. If the location of the file is modified, the movie file cannot be
located.

To add a Movie to the slide:

In Normal View, click the slide to which the movie has to be added.
On the Insert Tab, in the Media Clips group, select the Movie option.
Choose the option Movie from File, locate the folder that contains the file and
then select the file to be inserted.
Choose from the option to play the movie Automatically or When Clicked.
This will allow the movie to be played either automatically when the slide
appears or has to be started explicitly by clicking on the movie button.
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Figure 4.18 : Movie from File

When a movie is inserted, a pause trigger is added called Trigger. This is added
because the movie frame has to be clicked within the slide to play the movie. The
movie can be played Full Screen also by choosing the Play Full Screen option.

Viewing and Printing the Presentation

Once the Presentation is ready, one has to prepare to present it. It can be viewed
as slide show on the computer first. Spell check utility can be used to run spelling
cheeked. Notes can be viewed in Print Preview mode to see how they would look
when printed.

Rearranging and adding or deleting slides

The order of the Sides can be changed at any point of time.

To rearrange the slides, Choose View tab from the menu and select the Slide
Sorter option.
Here all the slides are shown as thumbnails. Any slide can be selected and
moved around to re-arrange the order of the slides.

Figure 4.19 : Slide Sorter 147

Lab Course In the Slide Sorter view mode, any slide may be deleted by choosing the Delete
Slide option on the Home Menu. And new slide can be added by choosing the
New Side option on the Home tab.

Viewing the Presentation

After the Presentation is prepared, it can be viewed in Slide Show mode which
will give an idea as to how the slides will appear during the presentation display.

To open Slide Show mode, Click Slide Show tab and click Start Slide Show
to start from first slide or current slide. It can also be started by clicking on
the Slide Show button on the lower right part of the PowerPoint window.
The Slides will start appearing on the computer screen.
Once can navigate through the slides either by using the Slide show toolbar
at bottom of screen or simply by clicking the mouse button.
To come out of this mode simple press ESC key at any point. This will return
the view to Normal mode.

Figure 4.20 : Customizing Slide Show

Once can also set up a Custom Slide show to display only a selected list of slides.
This feature helps to create a 30-minute show or a 60-minute show from the same
presentation as and when required.

Spell Check, Print Handouts and Notes

To remove any spelling errors, the Spell check option can be used.
On the Review tab, in Proofing group, click Spelling and then choose the correct
options as the spell checker moves from one slide to another.

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Figure 4.21 : Spell Check

The Handouts for the audience or the Notes for the speaker can be printed using
Print Preview option on the Microsoft Office button.

Select the Print Preview option on the Microsoft Office button.

Select Handouts from the Print What list.
Choose one of the Handout types from the list
As the Handout type is selected, the same is displayed in the preview mode to
show it will look when printed in the selected format.

Figure 4.22 : Print Handouts

To Print the Notes for the Speaker, select the Notes Page option from the Print
What List as shown in Figure 4.23.

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Figure 4.23 : Print Notes

4.3 LAB EXERCISES

1. Take any consumer product of your choice. Make a marketing presentation

with at least 10 slides. Use different customized Animation Effects on Pictures
and Clip Art on any four of the ten slides?

2. How can a Presentation be reviewed by another person and how are comments
added to it?

3. Create a Presentation on “Advantages of Fast Communication in Today’s

world” with three different Slide Transitions with Sound effect?

4. How can a Power Point presentation be saved as a RTF file?

5. Create a Photo Album in PowerPoint?

6. Suppose you have already created a presentation for photo album and now
you want to do the following:
Add slides to this presentation? How will you add slides to this
presentation?
After creating the photo album, you realized that one of the slides will
look better if it had different layout, how do you change the slide layout?
Before printing, you want to preview the slides to check the album.
Print the copies of your photo album.

7. Create a Presentation for sales presentation with following features:

1. All the slides should follow common design i.e. same title style, same
footer with confidential clause, page numbers.
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2. All slides should have slides notes.
8. Make a short presentation on Cloud Computing technology describing the Power Point
evolution of the Operating systems?
For each of the slide you should have Timer based Transition
Write Speaker Notes for each slide
Add a video to at least two slides which can be run in Play Full Screen
option

4.4 SUMMARY

In this Lab Session, you have learnt how to do the Basic operations on
PowerPoint application. You have also seen how a presentation can be made
interesting and more exciting using different layouts, various themes, and
applying animation and sound effects.
There are lot more features which can be explored further to make your
Presentation better and attractive.

4.5 FURTHER READINGS

Microsoft Office Online Support

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Dummies by Doug Lowe

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