ms office powertips: powerpoint
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Created for the RWU Law Library Appy Hour/Prepare for Practice technology series.TRANSCRIPT
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MS Office PowerTips:PowerPoint
Appy Hour/Prepare for Practice
Fall 2014
Raquel M. Ortiz
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MS PowerPoint
Principles for effective presentations Record & Share Customize Beyond PowerPoint: Prezi
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Five Principles for Effective Presentations
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Principle #1
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DO NOT! <wait for cue>
Good afternoon <pause>
This is a special report from your audience.
Treating your PowerPoint as a teleprompter is a sure way to lose your audience interest, FAST.
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Principle #2
Text from: Lorem Ipsum – All the Facts, http://www.lipsum.com
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Instead….
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Or better yet…
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Text “rules”: 4 by 4 & 8H
Four or fewer bullets (per slide)
Four or fewer words (per line)
EXCEPTION: Setting the agenda
Screen height * 8 = Good font size
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Principle #3
“Dumptruck” by Peder Hanson. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0, modified by R. Ortiz with images from Microsoft.
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DO NOT!
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Instead….
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Or, maybe…
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Principle #4
DO
NOT!
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Better!
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Principle #5
Show me, don’t tell me!
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Pictures Tell The Story
Drab!
West’s Regional Reporters
State cases 7 regions Not geographically accurate Different sizes
Fab!
Image source: https://lawschool.westlaw.com/userguides/nationalreporter/ west_map_reg_v6/reg_reporters_map.html
West’s Regional Reporters
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Choose Wisely
Drab! Fab!
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Search for Images Search Engines with post search filters
Bing Image Search Google Image Search
Microsoft Office – free for non-commercial use License (under “Additional Terms”)
Creative Commons search Licenses explained
See also: Carli Spina, Images, in Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media, http://guides.library.harvard.edu/Finding_Images
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Give proper attribution! A Straightforward Guide to Creative Commons
Types of licenses How to choose CC licensed photos How to give proper attribution
Non-creative Commons* [Author], [Title], [Year], [Medium], [URL for location – NOT Google!],
Retrieved [Date Retrieved]
* Emilie Mathews, Attribution Best Practices, in Art Research, at http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/art_attribution
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Recording and Sharing Presentations
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Record Your Presentation Record Slide Show (Slide Show > Record Slide Show)
Panopto
Jing
Screencast-o-matic
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Share Your Presentation Slideshare (slides only)
Google Drive or OneDrive
Screencast.com (Jing recording)
Screencast-o-matic (recording)
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Customizing PowerPoint Presentations
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Five Easy Ways Templates
Manipulating Graphics
Slide Master
Automatic footers/slide numbering
PowerPoint Other Formats
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Templates
New presentations File > New > [Search]
Existing presentations Design > Themes > [Choose a Template]
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Editing Your Template Design > Variants
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Manipulating Graphics
Make clip art and photos work for you!
Clip Art: Picture Tools > Adjust
Photos: Picture Tools > Picture Style
All: Picture Tools > Size
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Examples: Manipulating Graphics
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Slide Master Manipulate the entire look and feel of your PowerPoint
View > Slide Master
Master Slide = changes to the entire presentation Subsidiary slides = changes to specific types of slides
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Automatic Slide Numbering/Footers Set Footer & Numbering Style in the Slide Master
Then: Insert > Header & Footer
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Exporting PowerPoint to Other Formats
Template (.potx)
PowerPoint Show (.ppsx)
JPEG
Video (MP4 or WMV)
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A cool alternative to PowerPoint
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Lynda.com = Self-paced video tutorials https://lyndalog.rwu.edu/ Log in with your RWU username and password.
PowerPoint in One Hour for LawyersLaw Practice: KF 322.5 .M53 U54 2014
Learn more about PowerPoint…
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