2Part II Enhancing

a Presentation

Changing the Presentation Design

• Design template

• Professionally created slide designs contain– Color schemes– Custom formatting– Over 100 background designs– Styled fonts– Template change occurs throughout the file

SS of Apply Design

preview box shows sample of selected design template

design template file names

folder containing design template files

selected template

Apply Design Screen

Apply Design Screen

Changing the Color Scheme

• Color Schemes are professionally designed to render a pleasing, consistent look

SS of Color Scheme (3 of them)changing color scheme

color scheme changes for this slide

selected scheme

making changes to Color Scheme

color palette

• Drawing objects– Pictures– Clip art

• Inserting clip art

• Inserting new slides

Graphics

Graphics

• Objects such as charts, drawings, pictures and scanned images can be added for additional impact

• Drawing objects - shapes, lines and boxes using Drawing toolbar

Graphics

• Pictures - either compilations of shapes and lines or graphical files

• Clip art - collection of bundled graphical images

Inserting clip art

Drawing Shapes

Arrows

Adding Pictures and Sounds

click for sound

Changing Slide Layout

• Autolayout - 24 predefined slide layouts for controlling placement of objects on a slide

• Layout styles for title and bulleted text; title, bulleted text and clip art; and others

• Easy way to keep slides consistent and professional looking

Inserting a New Slide

• Insert, New Slide

• Autolayout options displayed for user choosing

• Also called graphs

• Visual representation of numerical data

• More effective than simply numbers with most audiences

• PowerPoint has 14 different types, with many formats

Creating Charts

Quarterly Sales

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Calendar Year

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lars East

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X axis

Y axis

Legend

Titles

Some chart elements

• Area

• Bar

• Column

• Line

• Pie

Basic Chart Types

Chart and associated data set

Area Chart

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NorthWestEast

• Shows relative importance of a value over time by emphasizing area underneath the curve

Bar Chart

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NorthWestEast

• Vertical categories and horizontal values. More emphasis on comparisons, less on time

Pie Chart

• Shows the relationship of each value in a data series to the series as a whole. Each slice represents a value

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Column Chart

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EastWestNorth

• Similar to bar chart, with categories and values reversed

Drawing a Box

• Can be used to define chart space

• Click on rectangle tool

• Draw box

• Choose fill and line options as desired