PowerPoint 2016 Lesson 02 - Projects

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Presentation Basics 1

Presentation Basics

Projects
Project 2-1: Creating a New Presentation from a Template
As director of the Citywide Business Alliance, one of your jobs is to introduce the guest speaker at the organizations
monthly meeting. To do this, you will create a new presentation from a theme template and then reuse a slide with
information about the speaker from a different presentation.

GET READY. LAUNCH PowerPoint if it is not already running.


1. Click the File tab and then click New to open the New Presentation window.
2. Scroll if necessary and click the Ion template. In the dialog box that appears, click the purple sample and then click Create.
3. In the Click to add title placeholder, type Citywide Business Alliance.
4. In the Click to add subtitle placeholder, type Guest Speaker: Stephanie Bourne.
5. On the Home tab, click the arrow below the New Slide button to open its menu and then click Reuse Slides.
6. In the Reuse Slides task pane, click the Browse drop-down arrow and then click Browse File.
7. Navigate to the location where the sample files for this lesson are stored and open the Bourne.pptx presentation file.
8. In the Reuse Slides task pane, click slide 1. The slide is added to your new presentation. Close the Reuse Slides task pane.
9. Click the File tab and then click Print. Only print if instructed by your instructor. The Print controls appear in Backstage view.
10. Click the Color drop-down arrow, and on the menu that appears, click Grayscale.
11. Click the Full Page Slides drop-down arrow, and on the menu that appears, click 2 Slides under the Handouts section.
12. Click Print to print the handout in grayscale mode. Only print if instructed by your instructor. Otherwise, click the Back
button, or press Esc to leave Backstage view without printing.
13. Click the File tab and click Save As, or click the Save icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. Click Browse and navigate to the
folder where you are storing the solutions for this lesson.
14. Open the Save as type drop-down list and click PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation.
15. Select the text in the File name box, press Delete, and then type Speaker. The file is saved as Speaker.ppt.
16. CLOSE the presentation file.

PAUSE. LEAVE PowerPoint open for use in the next project.

Project 2-2: Creating a Presentation from a Outline


You are the editorial director for Lucerne Publishing, a small publishing house that provides editorial services to other
businesses. Your sales manager has asked you to prepare a simple presentation that lists the services offered by your
editorial staff. You can create this presentation from an outline that was created earlier.

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1. CREATE a new, blank presentation.
2. In the title placeholder, type Lucerne Publishing.
3. In the subtitle placeholder, type Editorial Services and then click outside the placeholder.
4. Use the Slides from Outline command to locate the Microsoft Word document named Editorial Services and then click
Insert.
5. In the Outline pane, click slide 6.
6. Use the Reuse Slides command to locate and open the About Lucerne presentation and then add slide 3 from that
presentation to the end of your new presentation as the final slide.
7. Print one copy of the presentation in a layout that shows nine slides vertically per page.
8. SAVE the presentation as Lucerne Editorial Services and then CLOSE the file.

EXIT PowerPoint.

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