Making a Great Power Point Presentation Lacey Campbell CINS 101

To make a great presentation you should know these terms: Normal View: 3 areas of specific information 1.Slide pane: The largest area that shows your full layout of each slide. 2.Slides tab/outline tab: Allows the editor to look through slides easy and quick. Thumbnails: Smaller slides that allow you to see many slides at once vertically organized. 3.Notes pane: located at the bottom of the window and allows editor to add text not shown in the PowerPoint (Perfect for presenting).

Terms to Making a great presentation: . Slide Sorter View: Thumbnails of entire presentation. Very useful when Editor wants to delete, find, edit, or view all of the power points at the same time. Slide Show View: Allows editor to present their presentation. These 3 views will come in handy and will keep the editor organized!

Before starting: Know that there is HELP! At anytime during the creation of the PowerPoint the editor gets confused press the question mark encircled on the ribbon. Ribbon: near the top of screen where the tabs occur. This is the control center for the program. Includes: Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review, View, Add-Ins, Acrobat, and Format.

Knowing What Tabs are and how can they help me? Tab one is Home This tab includes the most frequent used commands. Allows you to cut and past information between slides so the editor doesn’t have to rewrite information. Allows editor to choose a number of layout views. Allows change in size, color, and changing font of text. Coordinates where paragraphs are arranged. Examples: Present Number letter change Write Hello

Home Tab Allows the Editor to Add great shapes and Arrangements. This makes for great presentation We Hello lacey

Insert Tab This will help the editor Insert anything wanted into the slide. Tables: helps organize what is presented. Clip art lacey Sister Older Brown brown patty Younger Blonde blue

Clip Art Makes presentations more visual and exciting!

Insert Tab Smart art Tables Illustrations Links Text Media Clips Media sound Text Text box, header, word art Date & time, symbol Object & slide # Links action hyperlink Illustrations Clip art, pictures, shapes Smart art, charts, albums Tables

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Design Tab (this would be great for a lumbar presentation, haha!) This tab actually allows editor to control what the slides look like. Allows editor to change orientation of slide, size, theme, colors, and effects. When choosing the theme it should coordinate with what type of presentation it will be and who it will be presented to.

Welcome Flow You will want to use this theme if you are: Presenting for an aquarium Presenting a speech on aquatics Want to save the whales Want to present swimming with the dolphins! You want to save the seahorses from extinction in Asia.

Design Tab You may want to change where your style of viewing. You can do this by changing the page setup to landscape. You may want to change the background to only one of your slides. Click background styles Right click on the background you like Press selected slide

Animation Design Animate No animation Allows an awesome introduction. Click animation Choose in the transition to this slide and choose your entrance. No animation Lose points on presentation Looks boring Is not very interesting No one will listen to your presentation

Animation will give editor a great entrance like this. To make this entrance. Change the transition sound to wind. Check the box: automatically after Change to 00:03 allows teacher to hear first and feel the breeze from the lilies! Choose dissolve For Picture: Go to insert Click on folder and press open Click on the choice of 4 pictures To make these bullets: Highlight sentences Right click on mouse Bullets are automatic or editor can choose. You can preview under this tab too

Slide Show Tab This tab has the commands editor will use to finalize presentation. This tab allow you to preview work when finished Set up finishing touches Allows editor to change resolution

Review tab Allows editor to check for misspelled grammer. Presenter can find in the thesaurus words that mean the something so presenter doesn’t have to say the same boring word through out the presentation, over and over again. Example: bored uninteresting rigid jaded

View Tab This allows presenter to view their data in different ways such as: Full screen mode Multiple sections of worksheets side by side Placement of page breaks Show or hide different worksheet features You can zoom in or zoom out to see the presentation more clear. You align the can objects gridlines Also with icon .

Add-Ins tab Use snagIt to perform a snagIt capture Select the capture type with the window This allows the editor to auto scroll Allow Flash to be inserted

Acrobat and format tab Acrobat: Creates and prepares to send for review Starts the meeting Attaches for email Creates PDF file Acrobat: