Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create effective slideshows with animation effects, transitions between slides, and hyperlinks. It provides various views for designing, editing, and presenting slides including Normal, Outline, and Slide Sorter views. PowerPoint enables adding animation and motion paths to objects to make presentations more engaging. Hyperlinks can be used to link to other slides, files, webpages or email addresses to easily navigate within and between presentations.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create effective slideshows with animation effects, transitions between slides, and hyperlinks. It provides various views for designing, editing, and presenting slides including Normal, Outline, and Slide Sorter views. PowerPoint enables adding animation and motion paths to objects to make presentations more engaging. Hyperlinks can be used to link to other slides, files, webpages or email addresses to easily navigate within and between presentations.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create effective slideshows with animation effects, transitions between slides, and hyperlinks. It provides various views for designing, editing, and presenting slides including Normal, Outline, and Slide Sorter views. PowerPoint enables adding animation and motion paths to objects to make presentations more engaging. Hyperlinks can be used to link to other slides, files, webpages or email addresses to easily navigate within and between presentations.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create effective slideshows with animation effects, transitions between slides, and hyperlinks. It provides various views for designing, editing, and presenting slides including Normal, Outline, and Slide Sorter views. PowerPoint enables adding animation and motion paths to objects to make presentations more engaging. Hyperlinks can be used to link to other slides, files, webpages or email addresses to easily navigate within and between presentations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful presentation software that helps you produce an
effective presentation in the form of on-screen slides. It provides hyperlinks and several animation styles such as Entrance, Emphasis, Exit and Motion Paths. Animation and hyperlinks are great tools in making a presentation more dynamic.
Terms, Views and Functions in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Slide - is a single page of a presentation collectively, a group of slides may be
known as a slide deck. The shortcut key to insert a new slide is Ctrl+M
• Design Templates – are pre-designed graphic styles that you can apply to your slides.
• Slide Show Button - a collection of pages arranged in sequence that contain
text and images for presenting to an audience. You may press F5 if you want to start your presentation from the beginning of the slides or you may click the slide show button to display the current slide in the presentation. • Animation - is a set of effects which can be applied to text or graphics within a slide.
• Transitions - are motion effects that when in Slide Show view add movement to your slides as you advance from one slide to another.
• Presentation Views – These are the buttons that you use to change views into normal, outline, slide sorter, notes page, and reading views
• Normal View – a simplified layout of the page so you can quickly key, edit, and format the text.
• Notes Page View - displays your slides on the top portion of the page, with the speaker notes for each slide in the notes pane on the bottom of the pane. • Outline View - displays all of the text in a PowerPoint slide show in outline form regardless of the design, objects and animations.
• Slide Sorter View – allows you to see thumbnails of all the slides in your presentation to easily rearrange them.
Tips in Creating an Effective Presentation
1. Minimize - Keep slide counts to a minimum to maintain a clear message
and to keep the audience attentive 2. Clarity - Use a font style that is easy to read 3. Simplicity - Use bullets or short sentences 4. Visuals - Use graphics to help in your presentation but not too many to distract the audience 5. Consistency - Make your design uniform 6. Contrast - Use light font on dark background or vice versa
Sample Animation Create an animation where one person wants to pass the ball to another person.
To add animation, do the following:
1. On the first slide of your presentation, change the layout into a blank layout. To do this, follow the steps below:
– Click the Home tab.
– On the Slides group, click Layout. – Click Blank. 2. Draw two objects in the form of a man using PowerPoint’s shapes. To do this, follow the steps below: – Click the Insert tab. – Click Shapes and select the appropriate shapes as shown on the figure using a black fill color for the two men, dark red for the ball and green for the rectangular ground.
3. Right-click the slide thumbnail on the Slides pane and click Duplicate Slide. 4. Move the right hand of the first man a little backward as shown below 5. Right-click the first slide thumbnail on the Slides pane and click Copy. 6. Paste the slide after the second slide on the Slides pane. 7. On the third slide, click the ball. 8. Click the Animations tab. 9. Click Add Animation and then select More Motion Paths. Add Motion Path dialog box will appear.
10.Click Arc Up and then click OK. The motion path will look similar to the one below. Adjust the motion path such that the arrow is extended up to the hands of the second man.
11.Make sure the motion path is still selected. Click Animation Pane on the Advanced Animation group. 12.On the Animation pane, click the drop-down arrow on the Oval animation and then select Effect Options.
To integrate timing, do the following:
1. Click the Timing tab.
2. On the Start drop-down arrow, click With Previous. 3. Click OK. 4. Click the first slide thumbnail. 5. Click the Transitions tab. On the Timing group under Advance Slide, click After and select 00:01:00 (1 second). Make sure that the same timing is selected to the other two slides. To check your output > Go to the first slide and click Slide Show view button. Hyperlinks in a Presentation Hyperlink allows you to easily navigate your slides during your presentation. It allows you to link to another slide in the current presentation, another slide in a different presentation, another file or webpage, or email address.
Hyperlinks are usually activated by clicking on the text or image. Text
hyperlinks are usually in color blue and underlined. When you use hyperlinks only the location of the source file is stored in the destination file, the linked data or file remains in the source file. The data in the destination file is updated whenever the source file is updated. To insert hyperlink, do the following: 1. Select the text or object you want to insert a hyperlink to. 2. Click the Insert tab. 3. On the Links group, click Hyperlink. Insert Hyperlink dialog box will appear. To insert a hyperlink to another slide in the current presentation, do the following:
a. Click Place in This Document.
b. You may also add a text to display when you hover your pointer by clicking the ScreenTip button. Set Hyperlink Screen Tip dialog box will appear. To insert a hyperlink to another slide in the current presentation, do the following:
a. Enter text to the ScreenTip text box.
b. Click the slide where you want to link to under the Select a place in this document. c. Click OK. To insert a hyperlink to another slide in a different presentation, do the following:
a. Click Existing File or Webpage.
b. Browse and select for the PowerPoint file. c. Click the Bookmark button. To insert a hyperlink to another slide in a different presentation, do the following:
a. Click the slide where you want to link to under the Select an existing place in the document. b. Click OK. To insert a hyperlink to another file, do the following:
a. Click Existing File or Webpage.
b. Browse and select for the PowerPoint file. c. Click OK. To insert a hyperlink to a webpage, do the following:
a. Click Existing File or Webpage.
b. Enter the complete URL in the address text box. c. Click OK. To insert a hyperlink to an email address, do the following:
a. Click E-mail Address.
b. Enter the complete email address in the E-mail address text box. c. Enter the subject in the Subject text box. d. Click OK.
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