1. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 1 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 PowerPoint Lecture to Accompany Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 PowerPoint, Chapter 2 Format a Presentation

2. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 2 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Apply a design that results in dynamic and consistent- looking slides Cypress Executive Hotels Front Desk Employees Cypress Executive Hotels Front Desk Employees Apply a design that results in professional- looking slides

3. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 3 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Introduction In Skills 1–10, you will: –Apply a design that results in dynamic and consistent-looking slides –Apply a design that results in professional-looking slides –Use Live Preview to view the effect of different formatting –Customize your presentation

4. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 4 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 2: Change the Presentation Theme Theme A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your presentation. Themes gallery Live Preview shows Apex theme. Each theme includes background colors, font styles, colors, sizes, and slide layouts specific to the theme.

5. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 5 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 3: Apply Font and Color Themes Themes Each color theme is composed of a set of coordinating colors that are applied to backgrounds, objects, and text in a presentation. Click the Colors buttonto display theTheme Colors gallery. Even when you apply a new color theme, the overall design continues to be formatted with the underlying theme.

6. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 6 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 4: Format the Slide Background Right-click Style 12 to display the shortcut menu to apply background theme. The styles that display coordinate with the color theme applied to the presentation.

7. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 7 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 6: Format Text with WordArt WordArt A text style used to create decorative effects in your presentation. Click the More button in the WordArt Styles group to display the gallery. Selected style

8. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 8 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 7: Change Character Spacing and Font Color Bold formatting contrasts nicely, but characters are too close together. Expand by 1 pt Font dialog box is used to change the spacing in WordArt. Expanded spacing selected

9. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 9 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 10: Use Format Painter and Clear All Formatting Click the Format Painter button to activate the Format Painter. Format Painter pointer Selected text Format Painter Copies formatting from one selection of text to another.

10. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 10 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Skill 10: Use Format Painter and Clear All Formatting Clear All formatting button Reformatted text

11. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall. 11 Skills for Success with Microsoft ® Office 2007 Let’s Get Started Start on Chapter 2 Power Point Text Pages 473 – 495 (~60 min) 1.Need 4 files from the DPR folder or R:\cmcdougall15\Power Point\Chapter 2 folder 2.Send files to your flash drive 3.Move the files to your Power Point Folder Hand in 1.At the end of the chapter, Print Handouts (4 Slides- page)