Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Helpers
Prepared by Nick Griffin (with Jim Hanson)
Microsoft
PowerPoint 2010 Helpers
How to Create a Look for your PowerPoint
How to make an Attention Getter Slide
How To Insert Picture Diagrams (SmartArt)
How To Insert Charts and Graphs
How To Make Transitions from One Slide to
the Next
How To Make your Bullets Appear One at a
Time
How To Make your Pictures Appear One at a
Time
Example of Bullets and Pictures Appearing
at Once
How To Make your Pictures and Bullets
disappear
When you start with a blank PowerPoint, you have an opportunity to create a look that will make your information clear and engaging.
Slide Master is a great place to start because it creates a format that all your slides in the presentation will adopt.
Note
you can change the backgrounds for all the slides by clicking the slide
labeled 1. Or you can change the settings specifically for certain types of
slides like those for graphs or tables which are shown in the subcategories
on the left margin when you are in the Slide Master view
1. Click View à Slide Master
2.
OPTION 1: Use Design Themes
Choose the “Design” Ribbon and then pick the Theme you like.
Note - Directly to the right of the themes you can also choose color, font, and effects for your slide format to make it more customized.
3.
OPTION 2: Use a Custom Background.
A. Right click the white
background of the slide itselfà
Format background.
B. Choose to have a solid fill, gradient fill, picture or texture fill, pattern
fill or the option to hide background graphics.
Here
are some examples of Custom Backgrounds.
This is an example of a solid fill:
There
are multiple options for gradient fill as shown in this example:
Pattern and texture fills often distract attention from your presentation and make some fonts hard to see so use them with great care.
4.
OPTION 3: Picture Background
A. Go online and find a picture to save as a possible background, or use
a picture that you already have on your computer. (Note: Pictures with
resolution less than 600 x 400 typically don’t look very good; you need a
fairly decent quality picture.)
As you can see here I have right clicked an image I would like to save with a
resolution of 1200 x 870
B. Right click your background à Click Format Background à Click on Picture fill à File… à find your picture and double click it/ok.
Make Your Picture Work.
Your picture hopefully looks cool
but your text may not show up well in front of it. So, you need to edit the
picture so that your text can be seen. To
do that, increase the transparency.
A. Right Click the Picture
B. In this “Format Background” dialogue box you can change the picture’s color, brightness, contrast, saturation or give it other effects on the other tabs.
C. To make text more visible, you can give it a shadow, make it bold or change its color by clicking on the Drawing Tools à Format tab in the top ribbon.
Note you are probably still in the
Slide Master view.
To exit on the ribbon, click Slide
Master and there is a red icon “Close Master View.”
1. To inset a new slide, click the Home tab on the ribbon.
2. If you click the top section of the new slide button it will simply bring up a new slide in your presentation.
3. However, if you click the bottom section of the new slide button you will get options for the layout you want your slide to have.
Your PowerPoint presentation should always begin with a strong attention getter.
Note: You usually have a Title
Slide with your topic and your name before the Attention Getter Slide. You do not
show the Title Slide during your presentation; it is just like a “Title Page”
for a paper—for you and the professor, not for your presentation audience.
A good attention getter usually does one of these things to get people’s attention:
· Use a funny title or interesting comment.
· Use a funny or dramatic picture that relates to the theme of your presentation.
· Use a short, engaging video.
For example, if I am doing a presentation on animals I could do something like this for a starting page:
Or If I was doing a presentation on parenting I could do something satirical like this:
You could also use a short
engaging video for your attention getter.
To do this, click the insert
tab on the ribbon, then click the video button, this will open the insert video
window allowing you to choose which video you want in your presentation.
If you do decide to use a video as your attention getter be sure to say 1 to 2 sentences to introduce your video.
WARNING: USING A MAC? You CANNOT copy and paste a
picture in for PowerPoints that you will give to a Windows User or show on
a Windows Machine. WHY? Because the pictures will copy in Quicktime format that
cannot be read by Windows Machines. You must Insert the Picture from your
hard drive.
To insert a picture, click the
picture icon in the slide (or you can click the Clip Art icon for good
symbols).
Windows users: You can also copy and paste pictures from the Internet into your PowerPoint Mac Users should NOT do that; read the warning above.
a. By clicking “Mark Areas to Remove” the program turns the area that will be deleted into the color pink. By clicking “Mark Areas to Keep” you can remove areas of pink that you want to stay.
b. As you go along, there will be plus and minus circles which you can remove by selecting them and clicking “Delete Mark.”
c. If you don’t like the changes you’ve made, click “Discard All Changes”, but if you want to keep your changes click “Keep Changes”
7. Finally there are the usual tools that allow you to
rotate, flip, crop, arrange, or give a border to your image.
Remember you can
click the white dots on the margin of the picture to resize it or click the
green dot to rotate it.
NOTE: Use the
corner dots (red circled above) to adjust the photo; this will avoid skewing
your images.
This is an example of rotating or flipping it.
Videos can add interest and demonstrate key things you are talking about.
1.
1. You can edit the video in the Format tab ie. color, size, frame or change its Play Back length, fading, looping, volume, etc.
a. This is how you change the frame: click the format tab on the ribbon, under this tab you will see options for the frame labeled under video styles
b. This is how you change the color, brightness, and contrast of the video: Format à Adjust
c. This how you play or pause: Format à Play
2. When you right click the video you get a number of options like Trimming which opens a new window allowing you to edit the video and its length.
Sometimes, you can’t get a video on to your computer or it is just easier to connect to the internet. Here is how to do that effectively.
1. Locate the video you want to embed on Youtube.
2. Copy the Emded code from Youtube (it is in the red circled area above)
3. In your PowerPoint, go to Insert à Video à Online Video Site
Note: you must have flash
downloaded and installed on your computer for this to work.
4. In the Insert Video
From Online Video Site dialogue box, paste in the Youtube embed code and
click Insert.
5. It will appear as a black
square but when you watch the slideshow it will start playing.
To organize your information into
flowcharts and clear diagrams, use SmartArt.
1.
Insert a new slide and instead of
adding text, click the SmartArt icon.
2.
Once you select an appropriate
picture model for your information, there will be a special window (text pane
window) to help insert and edit text within the SmartArt shapes.
3.
When you are in the text pane window
you can also add more shapes to the SmartArt by pressing enter below the
various text bullets in the box (as I have done in this chart below the power
shape).
In the same Design ribbon click “Add Shape” to add a new layer or shape with text (i.e. a circle in this case). For example, if you are adding a new concept to a concept map or variable to a ven diagram or box in a tree diagram.
Note: You can go to the Smart Art Tools tab in the ribbon, click design, click the text pane button, this will allow you to insert or edit the information in your SmartArt.
4. It is easy to change the type of diagram.
For example, you can change x to y. When you do, you will not lose the
information you type in nor the flow or organization. To do this, click the
arrow with a line above it under Design à Layouts
And then you can
either change the layout of the current type of SmartArt, in this case a tree diagram
or choose a completely new one by clicking “More Layouts” which is highlighted
in the picture below:
For example here I
have made the tree diagram from above into a funnel diagram:
5.
It is also easy to
change the shape, color, border, style by clicking Shape Styles and choosing
one of their given options in the Format tab – you will also see that there is
a shape fill,outline and effects icons next to this panel (red circle) which
allow for more customized results.
6. In the Design tab you can get more stylized looks by going to “Change Color” as highlighted below or by scrolling through the SmartArt styles panel (red circle indicates the chosen style)
Helpful note: the white box on the side appears if you click the two
arrows on the SmarArt border as shown below in the red circle
Graphs and Charts make a great way to visualize data and statistics to your audiences. To do this:
1. Insert a new slide.
2. Instead of adding text, click the Insert Chart icon.
3. Then a window will show with multiple chart options. Choose the one you want.
4. When you choose the chart you want, it will open to an Excel window on the side.
5. You
can import data from an Excel or other document.
To do this, go to your Excel document, go to the Data tab and click Get
External Data and choose what source you want to get data from.
You can also just copy data from another Excel spreadsheet or Word table.
6.
When you paste in or import Excel data,
PowerPoint will automatically change the appearance of your graph.
After you get the Chart or Graph inserted, now it is time to
edit it.
A. In the Design
tab you can change the chart type, edit the data, and change the chart layout
and style.
Note: you usually need to make changes from
the original graph by adding a title, labeling axis, and in general making the
data presentation effective.
1. Here is what it will look like right after you input data:
2. However now it might
be a good idea to “Switch Row Column” to have a more effective data
presentation especially for bar charts (red above)
3. After the chart or
graph looks suitable, you can edit the layout.
You can change the title, axis labels, legend position and other effects as I
have done below by choosing an option from “Chart Layout” (red circle above)
4. Now you can see where you can edit your title and axis just as you would any other text box (red circles)
B.
In the Layout tab you can change the chart labels, insert objects (picture,
text box, shape), change the axes,
adjust the background, and play with your data in the spreadsheet.
C.
In the Format tab, you can change the shape and word art styles, arrange
objects and change the size of the graph or chart.
Here
are some examples of different styles and looks of graphs:
You can make your PowerPoint move
from one slide to the next with cool effects.
1. Click Transitions in the top
ribbon.
2. Choose from a number of
transitions between slides
TIP: If you do the following to the Master
Slide by clicking on the top slide on the left
and add a transition, it will be applied to all slides. That way, you
don’t have to do this for each slide.
a.
When you scroll your mouse over the transition you are
interested in and pause, it will give you a preview of what it will look like
during the slide show.
b. You can also change the timing of the transition – generally it is good to have them last no longer than 2 seconds.
Note: 2 seconds is the automatic duration time, but this can be changed by clicking the up down arrows on the right of the duration button
c.
Slides with a transition effect will have a little star
icon to their left.
If you
show a slide with all the bullets and pictures on screen at once, people will
read and look at those while ignoring what you are saying.
Instead, you need to have the bullets and pictures appear one at a time—at the moment when you say them.
TIP: Set your Animations on the Master Slide so that the
rest of your slides will do the animations (showing the bullets and pictures
one at a time) without having to animate them over and over again on each
slide.
To
make bullets appear one at a time, do this:
1.
Select the bullets you want to
animate.
You can sequence the animation order of your bullets: while under the animation tab highlight or click your text box, then click the effect options button to choose whether you want your bullets to come in one at a time (by paragraph) or all at once.
You can
also have the bullets to appear in a particluar order, such as animating
bullets and pictures to come in at the same time or one after another.
You can give each object a different entrance animation and exit animation by clicking Add Animation.
Each animation will be given a number according to its order and will be either gold (entrance) or silver (exit) depending on what you have selected. You can change how the parts of the object can come in when selecting it, or do this for the slide as a whole under Effect Options (All at once or By paragraph).
1.
Select the picture you want to
animate.
2.
Then, go to the animations tab on
the ribbon, select the type of animation you want and click the add animation
button.
The little arrow to the side of the icon
allows you to choose and preview animation effects for its entrance, emphasis
and exit:
Or you can look in the Animation panel for something quicker and easier (Fade, Float in and Wheel are good examples)
You can give each object a different entrance animation and exit animation by clicking Add Animation, each animation will be given a number according to its order and will be either gold (entrance) or silver (exit) depending on what you have selected. You can change how the parts of the object can come in when selecting it, or do this for the slide as a whole under Effect Options (All at once or By paragraph).
Many times, you will want to have a bullet and a picture (illustrating the point) appear at the same time. Then another bullet and picture, etc.
Here’s what to do.
Here you can see there are three bullets and three pictures, these pictures should be sized the same and overlap each other, with the first on bottom last on top.
Note the numbers next to the bullets and pictures. That tells you the
order in which they will appear.
If you need them in a different order—drag and drop their order in the
panel on the right.
Here, you can see the pictures appear with the bullets in two slides:
Sometimes, you
want a picture to appear and then disappear when you move on to your next
point.
Easy!
1.
Select
the picture or bullet you want to disappear.
2.
On the Animations tab, click Add Animations and choose disappear (or
other exit, red colored animation).
note—it has to be add animations.