Creating Dynamic Multimedia Presentations Using Microsoft PowerPoint

by Lehman, Carol M.

Edition: 1st

ISBN13: 9780324025378

ISBN10: 0324025378

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1999-10-08

Publisher(s): South-Western College Pub

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Summary

This brief book focuses on creating dynamic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. It goes beyond the traditional step-by-step manual by exploring specific design techniques that lead to superior PowerPoint presentations. Lessons and exercises are built around Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, to allow students the full benefit of the latest PowerPoint functionality and features, but will also include explanations compatible with PowerPoint '97.

Getting Started with PowerPoint	p. 1
Understanding PowerPoint	p. 1
Starting PowerPoint	p. 1
Understanding the PowerPoint Window	p. 2
Understanding Templates	p. 3
Selecting and Applying a Template to a New Presentation	p. 3
Selecting and Applying a Template to an Existing Presentation	p. 3
Creating a Title Slide and a Simple Bulleted List	p. 4
Creating a Title Slide	p. 4
Working with New Placeholders	p. 4
Creating a Bulleted List	p. 7
Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint	p. 8
Saving a Presentation	p. 8
Closing a Presentation	p. 8
Exiting PowerPoint	p. 8
Opening an Existing Presentation	p. 8
Opening an Existing Presentation when Starting PowerPoint	p. 8
Opening an Existing Presentation with PowerPoint Started	p. 8
Viewing a Presentation	p. 9
Normal View	p. 9
Slide View	p. 9
Outline View	p. 11
Slide Sorter View	p. 11
Slide Show View	p. 12
Creating a Basic Presentation	p. 15
Choosing an Appropriate Slide Layout	p. 15
Changing the Slide Layout	p. 15
Adding Clip Art to a Slide	p. 16
Adding Clip Art in a Clip Art Placeholder	p. 16
Using the Find Function to Locate Clip Art in the Clip Art Gallery	p. 16
Inserting Clip Art Without a Clip Art Placeholder	p. 17
Importing Clip Art from Microsoft's Web Site	p. 17
Creating Bulleted Lists with Multiple-Levels	p. 18
Promoting and Demoting Text in a Bulleted List	p. 18
Creating a Two-Column Bulleted List	p. 18
Adding Slide Transitions	p. 19
Adding Transition Effects to Slides	p. 19
Enhancing With Custom Animation	p. 21
Inserting Custom Animation	p. 21
Printing a Presentation	p. 24
Delivering a Presentation	p. 25
Moving Within a Presentation	p. 26
Additional Techniques to Ensure Professional Delivery	p. 27
Using Drawing Tools, Clip Art, WordArt, Photographs, and Sound to Enhance a Basic Presentation	p. 29
Using Drawing Tools to Enhance a Presentation	p. 29
Enhancing a Title Slide	p. 29
Using an AutoShape to Enhance Clip Art	p. 32
Adding an AutoShape to Enhance a Bulleted List Slide	p. 34
Working with Clip Art	p. 34
Recoloring Clip Art	p. 34
Ungrouping Clip Art	p. 35
Rotating Clip Art	p. 38
Inserting WordArt	p. 40
Creating Screen Captures	p. 41
Cropping Images	p. 41
Using Photographs to Enhance a Presentation	p. 42
Inserting a Photograph as a Slide Object	p. 42
Inserting a Photograph as the Slide Background	p. 44
Inserting a Slide Transition	p. 46
Printing a Presentation	p. 46
Designing a Custom Template	p. 47
Customizing PowerPoint	p. 47
Editing the Master Slide	p. 47
Modifying the Color Scheme of a Presentation Design	p. 50
Designing a Custom Presentation Design	p. 52
Converting Slides to Overheads	p. 54
Adding Creative Animation Techniques	p. 57
Creative Animation Techniques	p. 57
Using Automatic Timings	p. 57
Using the Hide After Mouse Click Animation Technique	p. 59
Using the Hide After Animation Technique	p. 63
Printing the Presentation	p. 64
Creating Compelling Tables and Graphs	p. 65
Creating Tables	p. 65
Creating Graphs	p. 66
Creating a Column Chart	p. 67
Creating a Pie Chart	p. 73
Editing a Presentation and Rehearsing for Effective Delivery	p. 79
Designing Coherence Devices	p. 79
Creating an Agenda Slide	p. 79
Creating a Summary Slide	p. 80
Creating Divider Slides	p. 81
Proofreading a Slide Show	p. 82
Using the Speller	p. 82
Rehearsing a Presentation	p. 84
Setting Rehearsal Timings	p. 84
Running a Slide Show with Rehearsal Timings	p. 85
Completing Slides 17-20	p. 86
Developing Useful Speaker's Notes and Professional Audience Handouts	p. 87
Constructing Useful Speaker's Notes	p. 87
Adding Speaker's Notes While Rehearsing	p. 87
Adding Speaker's Notes in the Notes Pane	p. 88
Adding a Header and a Footer to the Notes Pages	p. 89
Creating Professional Audience Handouts	p. 89
Editing the Handout Master	p. 89
Creating Audience Handouts Using the Send to Word Feature	p. 91
Inputting Supplementary Notes to a Send to Word Handout	p. 93
Adding a Header and a Footer to a Send to Word Handout	p. 93
Making a Presentation Interactive	p. 95
Hiding a Slide	p. 95
Creating Hyperlinks	p. 96
Adding a Hyperlink to a Web Site	p. 96
Hyperlinking Using the Mouse Over Technique	p. 97
Creating Hyperlinks on a Summary Slide	p. 98
Linking a Graph Created in Excel to a PowerPoint Slide	p. 102
Creating a Notebook File	p. 102
Copy the Chart from Excel into PowerPoint	p. 104
Other Techniques for Adding Interactivity to Slides	p. 106
Interactive Technique 1	p. 106
Interactive Technique 2	p. 107
Interactive Technique 3	p. 108
Printing the Presentation	p. 108
Using the Pack and Go Wizard	p. 109
Packing a Presentation	p. 109
Unpacking a Presentation	p. 110
Index	p. 111
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