PowerPoint
Final Exercises
1. Which of the following would be called an “object” in PowerPoint? (pg 25)
Table Image
Chart Picture
Clipart Text
2. A “placeholder” is (pg 8, 25)
an empty box that appears in an AutoLayout
a place where you can insert text
a box where you can insert an image
an empty space on the slide where nothing can be added
3. Start a new presentation in PowerPoint. Is it possible to apply an AutoLayout other than the Title Slide layout?
Yes – any slide format can be used in any slide position.
No – the first slide in the presentation must always be a title slide.
Create a title slide that reads Final Exercises, by [your name]. Color the background blue, and apply to this slide only. Make the text Yellow. Format the slide as shown. (See below for slide examples.)
4. Insert a new slide into a PowerPoint presentation, and apply the Single Bullet AutoLayout.
Change this to the Text and Clipart layout.
5. Insert a clipart image of an animal into the clipart placeholder.
6. Delete the Textbox from the slide.
7. Create Wordart with the name of the animal you inserted. Change the Wordart text to Comic Sans. (If the font isn’t in your computer, use a different font.)
8. Adjust the size of the clipart and the Wordart. Color the Wordart Red.
9. Animate the Wordart to fly from bottom left. Animate the animal to crawl onto the page. Change the order of animation.
10. Create the slides on page 29 of your textbook.
11. Reformat the second slide (slide B) to reverse the bulleted text and the clipart on the slide.
12. Go to Slide Sorter view. Duplicate slide B. Change the clipart.
13. Remove the bullets. Align the text right.
14. Change the font to a San Serif font.
15. Put a 4 ½ point outline around the bulleted text.
16. Fill the text box with red.
17. Insert a new blank slide. Add a large circle. Color the background of the slide blue. Color the large circle yellow.
18. Add several more circles with various outlines.
Creating a Template
A template is a pattern. When you open a template and use it to create a document, the formatting that has been saved in the template will be applied to the document. The AutoLayouts are templates. So are the Wizard presentations. You can create your own templates.
You would want to create and use a template for your special needs if there were features you repeatedly had to add to your presentations. After your template is created, you only need to open it, and the features you require will already be there.
To create a new template, you open a new presentation and create it exactly the way you want it to appear each time you open it. If there is text that belongs in every presentation you ever make (the date, your company’s name, your company logo) place them in the template. This saves you from having to put them in each time you create a new presentation. (Templates are discussed on page 81 of your text. Read the definition.)
1. Open a new presentation and apply the Ribbons design.
2. Change the color scheme by right-clicking on the background and choosing Slide Color Scheme. Use the Custom tab to fine-tune the colors. Apply to All.
3. Open the Master Slide view. Change the formatting of the various elements. (Make it tasteful this time.) Be sure you change the bullets.
4. Create a small drawing (a beetle, a truck, a flower, a logo) on the Slide Master (not the Title Master.) You may animate it if you like. (Slide and Title Masters are discussed on page 77, Exercise 14, of your text.)
5. Close the Slide Master toolbar. Open it again and use it to close the Slide Master view.
6. Enter the View > Headers and Footers. Add the date, slide number and “your company’s” name.
7. Make any other changes to the template you want. If you add six slides to the template and put text or objects on them, they will be saved with your template. A phone number, or a Thank You slide, for example.)
8. Save as a template. (File > Save As > Save as Type > Design Template (*.pot).) Notice that the template will be saved to your program’s Templates folder. It needs to be in this folder for the program to find it and open it as a template.
9. Close the document. Click File > New. Find your template and open it. While we are in the New Document dialog box, we’ll look at other templates.
10. Use your template to create a presentation from the text on page 75-76. Use Final Exercises by [your name] again for the Title slide. Work in Outline view. Create a summary slide.
Tables
1. Create the presentation from page 87 – 88. Save it as Raft.ppt.
2. Slide E is a Table. Apply the Table slide layout, 5 columns and 4 rows. (Yes, I know that’s wrong, but do it that way so we can fix it.) Type the entries into the cells. Type a title for the slide.
3. To delete the extra column, select the cells in the column, right click, click Delete Column.
4. To add an extra row, press the tab key when you come to the last cell.
5. Resize the table, as you would any other object.
6. The last slide on page 88 (slide F) is a completely blank slide. Place two Text Boxes to hold the text. Format the text. Align the two text boxes to the center of the slide. (Draw > Align or Distribute > Relative to Page.)
7. Go to slide 2 and increase paragraph spacing: Format > Line Spacing > Before Paragraphs > 2 Lines > Preview. If you don’t like the look of that, you decide what the setting should be.
8. Insert slide 4 with the text shown on page 89. Again, increase the paragraph spacing.
9. Apply the Soaring template to the presentation.
10. Change to the slide master view and make the title text bright yellow.
11. Add a footer that says Drift A Bit, in italics, and in a casual font.
12. Change the background on slide 1 to be different from the rest. Try a Gradient fill effect. (Right-click the background, click Background. Click the color-drop-down arrow. Click Fill Effects. Choose black to blue, diagonal gradient, or one of your choosing.)
If you finish all this, you can safely say you are a PowerPoint whiz. If there are features you want more practice with, just let me know. I never run out of things to do.
Christine Frey