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Get more done quickly with PowerPoint Jump in wherever you need answers–brisk lessons and colorful screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step. Download Example Code. Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with managers who practice or …. PowerPoint Online displays the contents of a presentation very much like the desktop app does, and offers a limited subset of the commands and content formatting options that are available in the full desktop app.

Identify app window elements The PowerPoint app window contains the elements described in this section. Com- mands for tasks you perform often are readily available, and even those you might use infrequently are easy to find.

Title bar At the top of the app window, this bar displays the name of the active file, identifies the app, and provides tools for managing the app window, ribbon, and content. The title bar elements are always on the left end, in the center, and on the right end of the title bar. The Quick Access Toolbar at the left end of the title bar can be customized to include any commands that you want to have easily available.

You can change the location of the Quick Access Toolbar and customize it to include any command to which you want to have easy access. Four buttons at the right end of the title bar serve the same functions in all Office apps. You control the display of the ribbon by clicking commands on the Ribbon.

Ribbon The ribbon is located below the title bar. Across the top of the ribbon is a set of tabs. Clicking a tab displays an associated set of commands arranged in groups. Commands related to managing PowerPoint and presentations rather than presen- tation content are gathered together in the Backstage view, which you display by clicking the File tab located at the left end of the ribbon. Commands available in the Backstage view are organized on named pages, which you display by clicking the page tabs in the colored left pane.

You redisplay the presentation and the ribbon by clicking the Back arrow located above the page tabs. Commands related to working with presentation content are represented as buttons on the remaining tabs of the ribbon. The Home tab, which is active by default, con- tains the most frequently used commands. When a graphic element such as a picture, table, or chart is selected on a slide, one or more tool tabs might appear at the right end of the ribbon to make commands related to that specific object easily accessible.

Tool tabs are available only when the relevant object is selected. You can make these commands available by adding them to the Quick Access Toolbar or the ribbon. You can point to any button to display a ScreenTip that contains the command name, a description of its function, and its keyboard shortcut if it has one. To determine whether a button and its arrow are integrated, point to the button to activate it. If both the button and its arrow are shaded, clicking the button displays options for refining the action of the button.

If only the button or arrow is shaded when you point to it, clicking the button carries out its default action or applies the current default formatting. Clicking the arrow and then clicking an action carries out the action. Clicking the arrow and then clicking a formatting option applies the formatting and sets it as the default for the button. When a formatting option has several choices available, they are often displayed in a gallery of images, called thumbnails , that provide a visual representation of each choice.

When you point to a thumbnail in a gallery, the Live Preview feature shows you what the active content will look like if you click the thumbnail to apply the asso- ciated formatting.

When a gallery contains more thumbnails than can be shown in the available ribbon space, you can display more content by clicking the scroll arrow or More button located on the right border of the gallery.

Related but less common commands are not represented as buttons in a group. Tell me what you want to do Entering a term in the Tell Me What You Want To Do box located to the right of the ribbon tabs displays a list of related commands and links to additional resources online. Or you can press F1 to open the Help window for the cur- rent app.

Status bar Across the bottom of the app window, the status bar displays information about the current presentation and provides access to certain PowerPoint functions. You can. Some items, such as Docu- ment Updates Available, appear on the status bar only when that condition is true. These tools provide you with con- venient methods for changing the display of presentation content. You can display and hide content, display different content views, and change the magnification from the status bar.

Work with the ribbon and status bar The goal of the ribbon is to make working with presentation content as intuitive as possible. The ribbon is dynamic, meaning that as its width changes, its buttons adapt to the available space.

As a result, a button might be large or small, it might or might not have a label, or it might even change to an entry in a list. For example, when sufficient horizontal space is available, the buttons on the View tab of the PowerPoint app window are spread out, and you can review the commands available in each group. If you decrease the horizontal space available to the ribbon, small button labels disap- pear and entire groups of buttons might hide under one button that represents the entire group.

Clicking the group button displays a list of the commands available in that group. When insufficient horizontal space is available, labels disappear and groups collapse under buttons. When the ribbon becomes too narrow to display all the groups, a scroll arrow appears at its right end. Clicking the scroll arrow displays the hidden groups. The greater the screen resolution, the greater the amount of information that will fit on one screen. Microsoft will use your email address only for this one-time transaction.

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In the NavigateSlides presentation, display the gridlines. Notice that they appear in both open presentations. Notice that this modification affects only the active presentation. Switch to the presentation you created in the first practice task. Display the guides, and then move them so they align with the upper-left corner of the slide content area.

Notice the effect of these actions in the other open presentation. Display and edit presentation properties Maximize the NavigateSlides window, and then complete the following tasks: 1.

Display all the presentation properties. Edit the Subject property, entering Colors as the subject of the presentation. Save and close presentations Complete the following tasks: 1. Save the NavigateSlides presentation as MyPresentation, and then close it.

Close the presentation you created in the first task without saving it. A logical presentation and an overall consistent look, punctuated by variations that add weight exactly where it is needed, Practice files can enhance the likelihood that your intended audience For this chapter, use the practice files will receive the message you want to convey.

For practice file download This chapter guides you through procedures related instructions, see the introduction. Chapters 4 through 8 of this book are about working with the various types of slide content. A slide master could have only one slide layout, but most have unique slide layouts for slides that display the presentation title, section titles, and various combinations of slide titles and content, and a blank slide with only the background.

The slide layouts that are available in a presenta- tion are displayed on the New Slide menu. In a new presentation based on a standard PowerPoint template, a slide you add after the title slide has the Title And Content layout, and a slide added after a slide other than the title slide has the layout of the preceding slide.

To add a slide based on the default slide layout 1. Select the slide after which you want to add the new slide. If you add content to a slide and then realize that the content would work better with a different layout, you can change the slide layout by clicking the Layout arrow in the Slides group, and then clicking the slide layout you want to apply.

In the gallery, click a slide layout thumbnail to add a slide based on that slide layout. Within a presentation, you can duplicate an existing slide to reuse it as the basis for a new slide.

You can then customize the duplicated slide instead of having to create it from scratch. The slide takes on the formatting of its new presenta- tion unless you specify otherwise. For the import process to work smoothly, format the document content that you want to port into the presentation as headings. PowerPoint converts some styles into slide headings, converts some styles into bullet points, and ignores other styles. A slide created from an imported outline The following table illustrates how PowerPoint converts Word document styles to PowerPoint slide elements.

In Outline view, click the slide header in the Outline pane. To select multiple slides 1. In Normal view, Outline view, or Slide Sorter view, click the first slide you want to select. To insert a copy of a slide immediately following the original slide 1. In the Thumbnails pane, right-click the slide that you want to copy, and then click Duplicate Slide. To insert a copy of one or more slides anywhere in a presentation 1. Display the presentation in Normal view or Slide Sorter view.

Repeat step 3 to paste additional copies of the slide or slides into the presentation. To insert a slide from another presentation 1.

Open the source and destination presentations in PowerPoint. Display each presentation in Normal view or Slide Sorter view. Display the two PowerPoint windows side by side. In the source presentation, select the slide or slides you want to copy.

Drag the selection to the destination presentation. A horizontal line between slide thumbnails in Normal view or a vertical line between thumbnails in Slide Sorter view indicates the location at which PowerPoint will insert the slides.

PowerPoint creates copies of the slides and applies the destination theme to the copies. Display the destination presentation in Normal view. On the New Slide menu, below the gallery, click Reuse Slides to open the Reuse Slides pane on the right side of the screen.

Click the Browse button, and then click Browse File. In the Browse dialog box, 3 browse to the folder that contains the presentation you want to use slides from, and then double-click the presentation. In the Select a Slide Library window, browse to the slide library that contains the slide or slides you want to insert. The Reuse Slides pane displays thumbnails of the available slides. In the Reuse Slides pane, click the thumbnail of each slide you want to use to insert that slide into your presentation.

If you want the slide to retain the formatting from the source presenta- tion instead, select the Keep Source Formatting check box at the bottom of the Reuse Slides pane. Close the Reuse Slides pane. Enter the content that you want to appear on the slides and any other content in a document. Review the styles applied to the content you want to include in the presentation.

Save and close the document. To create a presentation by importing a Word document 1. On the Open page of the Backstage view, click Browse. Browse to the folder that contains the Word document that contains the slide title and bullet point information.

Double-click the document to create a new presentation. Select all the slides in the new presentation, and then on the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the Reset button. Apply the design template you want. Select the slide after which you want to insert the new slides. On the New Slide menu, below the gallery, click Slides from Outline to open the Insert Outline dialog box, which resembles the Open dialog box. Use standard Windows techniques to browse to the folder that contains the Word document you want to use for the slide titles and content.

Double-click the document to insert slides based on its content. To store slides in a slide library, follow these steps: 1. In the Publish Slides dialog box, select the check box of each slide you want to publish. Click the Select All button to select the entire presentation. In the Publish To box, enter or paste the URL of the slide library or click the Browse button and browse to the slide library. Each slide is published individually 4. Click Publish. They remain available from the Thumbnails pane, but their thumbnails are dimmed and slide numbers crossed through with a backslash.

You can edit the content of hidden slides When you select a hidden slide, the Hide Slide button on the Slide Show tab is shaded to indicate that the command is in effect. You can unhide a slide to include it in the slide show. To hide or unhide slides 1. Select the slide or slides you want to hide or unhide. Right-click a single slide, and then click Delete Slide. Select the slide or slides you want to delete.

Divide presentations into sections To make it easier to organize and format a longer presentation, you can divide it into sections. In both Normal view and Slide Sorter view, sections are designated by titles above their slides. They do not appear in other views, and they do not create slides or otherwise interrupt the flow of the presentation. Some templates include a slide layout, similar to the title slide layout, that is specifi- cally designed for section divider slides. If you divide a long presentation into sections based on topic, you might want to transfer your section titles to these slides to provide guidance to the audience or to mark logical points in the presentation to take breaks or answer questions.

To create a section 1. In Normal view or Slide Sorter view, select the slide that you want to be first in the new section. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the Section button, and then click Add Section to insert a section title named Untitled Section before the selected slide.

To rename a section 1. In the Section name box, replace or edit the existing section name, and then click the Rename button. To collapse or expand one slide section 1. In Normal view or Slide Sorter view, click the arrow that precedes the section title. To collapse or expand all slide sections 1. Rearrange slides and sections After you have added several slides to a presentation, you might want to rearrange their order so that they more effectively communicate your message.

You can rearrange a presentation by moving individual slides or entire sections of slides. In Normal view or Slide Sorter view, drag the slide thumbnail to its new posi- tion. Notice as you drag that the other thumbnails move to indicate where the selected slide will appear when you release the mouse button.

Right-click the slide thumbnail, and then click Cut. Right-click between the other slide thumbnails where you want to move the slide. To move a section within a presentation 1. Click the title of the section of slides you want to move, to select all the slides in the section. Drag the section to its new location. Right-click the section title, and then click Move Section Up or Move Section Down to move the section and all its slides before the preceding section or after the following section.

Click the title of the section of slides you want to ungroup. Right-click the section title, and then click Remove Section. To merge all sections by removing all section dividers 1. To delete a section of slides 1. Click the title of the section of slides you want to delete, to select all the slides in the section. Press the Delete key. If the selected section is collapsed, PowerPoint prompts you to confirm the deletion 2.

Even a blank presentation has a theme: the Office theme, which has a white slide background, a standard set of text and accent colors, and the Office font set, which uses Calibri Light for headings and Calibri for body text. PowerPoint and the other Office apps share a common set of themes and theme elements. This enables you to easily produce coordinated print and presentation materials.

Approximately 30 of these themes are available to you from the PowerPoint Themes gallery. Many of the themes come with predefined variants, which have a dif- ferent color scheme or background graphic. The built-in Office themes for PowerPoint Each thumbnail in the PowerPoint Themes gallery displays a sample of the font set in the form of an uppercase and lowercase letter A Aa and the color scheme in the form of colored blocks over the default title slide.

Title slides frequently have back- ground graphics that set the tone for the presentation. The standard slides associated with the theme will often have a more-subtle background graphic that coordinates with the title slide background.

You can choose to hide the background graphic and use only a colored background if you want to. You can change the theme that is applied to an entire presentation or to only one sec- tion of the presentation. If you like the colors of one theme, the fonts of another, and the effects of another, you can mix and match theme elements. You can also create your own themes. Simply point to any theme and pause. PowerPoint temporarily applies the selected formatting to the slide 3 in the Slide pane.

This makes it easy to try different themes and theme elements until you find the ones you want. To apply a standard theme to a presentation 1. On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click the More button below the scroll arrows to display the menu that includes the Office theme gallery and any custom templates on your computer.

Point to thumbnails in the gallery to display the theme names in tooltips and preview the effect of applying the themes to your presentation. Choose a theme that enhances the content of your presentation 4. Click a theme thumbnail to apply that theme to the entire presentation. On the Design tab, in the Variants group, click a variant thumbnail. On the Design tab, in the Variants group, click the More button below the scroll arrows to expand the Variants menu.

On the Variants menu, click Colors, and then click the color set you want to apply. To change the font set of the presentation 1. On the Variants menu, click Fonts, and then click the font set you want to apply.

On the Variants menu, click Effects, and then click the effect style you want to apply. Create a section that contains the slides you want to have a different theme. Click the section header to select the section. Apply the theme or theme element. Change slide backgrounds The presentation theme includes a standard background.

The background might be a color or it might include a background graphic. You make these changes in the Format Background pane. A solid color background is a good choice for readability, but if you want to add some interest without a lot of distraction, you can use a color gradient in which a solid color gradually changes to another.

PowerPoint offers several light-to-dark and dark-to-light gradient patterns based on the color scheme. Each change in color within a gradient is controlled by a gradient stop. For each gradient stop, you can specify the location and specific color including the transparency and brightness of the color.

A color gradient can have from 2 to 10 gradient stops. PowerPoint comes with several built-in textures that you can easily apply to the background of slides. For a dramatic effect, you can even incorporate a picture of your own, although these are best reserved for small areas of the slide rather than the entire background.

Click any pattern to preview it on the slide To display the Format Background pane 1. On the Design tab, in the Customize group, click the Format Background button.

To close the Format Background pane 1. To apply a background change to all slides 1. In the Format Background pane, configure the slide background formatting you want. At the bottom of the pane, click the Apply to All button. Display the Format Background pane. In the Format Background pane, select the Hide background graphics check box.

To apply a solid background color to one or more slides 3 1. In the Format Background pane, click Solid fill. Click the Color button to display the color palette. Click a theme color variant, a solid color, or a recent color, or click More Colors and select a custom color.

Move the Transparency slider to adjust the background color transparency, or set a specific transparency percentage. In the Format Background pane, click Gradient fill. Click the Preset gradients button, and then click a gradient option based on the current color palette.

Preset color gradients offer linear and radial variants of the theme accent color Or 1. In the Direction list, click the direction you want the gradient to flow. If you chose the Linear type, you can specify the angle you want the gradient to move along. Enter the angle in the Angle box. Then click the Remove gradient stop button. In the Gradient stops area, set the color, position, transparency, and brightness for each color in the gradient.

To apply a textured background to one or more slides 1. In the Format Background pane, click Picture or texture fill. Click the Texture button to display the texture gallery. You can select from a variety of textures, including fabric, marble, granite, wood grain, and Formica- like textures in various colors. In the texture gallery, click the texture you want to apply.

In the Format Background pane, click Pattern fill. In the Pattern palette, click one of the 48 pattern swatches. Click the Foreground button, and then select the primary pattern color. Click the Background button, and then select the secondary pattern color. Add two slides after the title slide. First, add a slide that has the default Title and Content layout. Then add a slide that has the Two Content layout. Add 7 more slides, so you have a total of 10 slides. Use each slide layout at least once.

In Normal view, delete slide 3. Switch to Slide Sorter view, and then delete slides 5 through 8. The presentation now contains five slides. Add seven slides to the end of the presentation by inserting the content of the ImportOutline document. Use the Reuse Slides feature to insert the first slide from the ReuseSlides presentation as slide 2 in the AddRemoveSlides presentation.

Then close the Reuse Slides pane. Insert a duplicate copy of slide 2 as slide 3. Hide slide 2, and then delete slide 8. Save and close the presentation. Change the name of the first section to Introduction. Switch to Slide Sorter view, and then change the name of the second section to Process. Collapse both sections, and then expand only the Process section. Move the first slide in the Step 1 section so that it is the third slide in the Intro- duction section.

Then delete the last slide in the Introduction section. Switch to Slide Sorter view and scroll through the presentation, noticing the sections. Collapse the sections, and then rearrange them so that the sections for steps 1 through 7 are in order and the End section is at the end of the presentation. Merge the End section into the Step 7 section. On slide 1, click the slide title. On the Home tab, in the Font group, notice that the title font is blue-gray, point, Times New Roman.

Apply the Ion theme to the presentation. On the Home tab, in the Font group, notice that the title font is now white, point, Century Gothic. Switch to Slide Sorter view, and adjust the magnification to display all the slides.

Apply the Circuit theme to the presentation. Notice that the slide background is blue. Apply the gray variant of the Circuit theme to the Past section of the presentation. Apply the red variant of the Circuit theme to the Present section of the presentation. Apply the green variant of the Circuit theme to the Future section of the presentation. Apply a gradient fill background to slide 1. Apply the custom gradient fill to all slides in the presentation.

For practice file download is best to err on the conservative side. As you gain more instructions, see the introduction. This chapter guides you through procedures related to animating text and pictures on slides, customizing anima- tion effects, adding audio and video content to slides, compressing media to decrease file size, and adding and managing slide transitions.

You can animate any individual objects on a slide, including text containers, pictures, and shapes. Thoughtfully designed animations can be very informative, particularly for audience members who are more receptive to visual input than to auditory input. Animations have the added benefit of providing a consistent message with or without a presenter to discuss or externally illustrate a process.

 
 

 

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