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Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Recap from 1 Creating new presentations. Good practice: save after every slide. You may find this easier with the keyboard shortcuts, [ctrl+s] followed by [ctrl+m]

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Masters In order to take control of the way powerpoint looks, use the view menu. We will consider Slide Master and Handout Master

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Master Views Slide master, use this to define how each slide looks Handout Master, use this to define how handouts look. (Useful if handouts to be distributed to Audience)

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Slide Master Choose Font for Titles Choose fonts and bullet styles for main text

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Actions in Slide Master Move the Title Area Move the Object Area Change Font sizes and faces Insert Images or drawing objects Alter Bullet styles Insert date, footer and slide numbers

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Handout Master Insert Headers footers page numbers dates

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Acrobat PDF Writer Remember that PDF Writer prints. If you set up a presentation and plan to make a pdf of handouts available to students, it would be helpful for them to have Module title, week number and page number on handouts.

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to After altering your masters Save as Presentation Template *.pot You should then be offered the default templates directory. If not, you can save your templates anywhere. You can browse for them in the apply design Dialog Box

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Looking after Templates Locating a Template Start, Search/Find, Files or folders Use the search term *.pot Choose to order results by date All the standard ones are same date

Room 227 Economics & Management Building Open to Looking after Templates 2 Once you have located your templates you can back them up (make a mental note or Back up Schedule) You can share templates, they are generally fairly small files, place them in shared drives, them to colleagues, share them via floppy disks.