Revision Notes Making a Powerful Presentation - Computer Science - Class 5

Introduction

To start PowerPoint 2007 from the Start Menu

• Click on the Start button, point to All Programs then Microsoft Office and click on Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
• The first screen that you will see a new blank presentation begins automatically with one slide.

Design Menu
Sometimes we need to design your presentation slides and make them look nice. You may present slides’ theme, such as change its color, font, and effect. Sometimes you may need to changes slides’ background, page setup, and more. So you need to find out those slide designing features before your modifying.

Slide Designs
Design tab is set and groups all slide design features. In Design tab, you can easily modify and customize your slides’ theme, background, and more:

Transition Menu
The Transitions allow you to get creative with your slides. Adding transitions allows you to add a little flair between the slides. Transitions are visual effects when moving from one slide to the next slide. For example, you can make one slide dissolve slowly away as the next slide appears. You can get more creative and make one slide push the old slide out or even use an effect that looks like doors opening to your next slide.

Different Effects on Slides
If you click on the Animation tab, on the top of the ribbon, you will see that there are many different transitions you can apply to one slide or to all slides at the same time. Just select the slide for your transition and click on the transition effect. You even get a preview of what it will look like. Click on Apply to All to add the transition to all slides at once.

Animation Menu
Animations will allow you to add visual effects and movement to text, Objects and graphics.

Different Effects on Object
To apply a built-in animation effect in Office PowerPoint 2007, do the following:
(i) Select the text or object that you want to animate.
(ii) On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, select the animation effect that you want from the Animate list.

Create and apply a custom animation effect to text or objects
You create custom animations in the Custom Animation task pane. The Custom Animation task pane shows important information about an animation effect, including the type of effect, the order of multiple effects in relation to each other, and a portion of the text of the effect.

Viewing Presentation in Different ways
Managing Slides in the Slide Sorter View
In the Slide Sorter view, you see a miniature of each slide. The Slide Sorter view not only gives you a great view of your presentation as a whole, but it also lets you rearrange and hide your slides. If you wish to increase or decrease the size of the slides you are reviewing, you can adjust the view by zooming in and out as necessary.

Running a Presentation in the Slide Show View
After making your complete presentation, you need to present it/run it.it can be easily done by Slide show Menu.
You can click on “From Beginning” for running the slide show from first slide or you can click on
“From Current Slide” if you want to run the slide show from current slide.

Previewing and Printing a Presentation
Previewing a Presentation
The Print Preview feature lets you see how your PowerPoint slides will appear before you print them. To use the PowerPoint Print Preview feature, choose Office— Print — Print Preview.
From the Print Preview screen, you can zoom in to examine the preview more closely by clicking anywhere in the preview area.

Selecting Page Setup Options
The PowerPoint 2007 Page Setup group consists of a Slide Orientation control so you can display your PowerPoint presentation in Landscape mode (the default) or Portrait mode. You should use Portrait mode only if you intend to print the slides on transparency masters and project them with an overhead projector, or present the slide show on a computer screen with a portrait orientation.
Click the Page Setup button in the Page Setup group to display the Page Setup dialog box. This dialog box gives you extra control over your presentation’s page setup.