Introduction to Electronic Presentations

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Introduction to Electronic Presentations
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Why use electronic presentation software?

• Enhance oral presentation
• Captivate audience with
• Images
• Graphs
• Animation

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Getting Started with PowerPoint

• Title slide contains presentation title and your
  name
• Add slides with Ctrl-M or Insert, New Slide
• Maximum seven bullets per page
• Maximum seven words per bullet (rough guide)
• Maximum two graphic images per page (exception
  collage page)
• Keep consistent neutral background
• Font colour contrasts with background

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No Paragraphs!

• Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
  and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been
  the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
  1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of
  type and scrambled it to make a type specimen
  book. It has survived not only five centuries,
  but also the leap into electronic typesetting,
  remaining essentially unchanged. It was
  popularised in the 1960s with the release of
  Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages,
  and more recently with desktop publishing
  software like Aldus PageMaker including versions
  of Lorem Ipsum.

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Slide Designs

• Select Format, Slide Design
• Preformatted designs provide style
• Contains specific fonts and font sizes

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Graphics

• Select Insert, Picture
• Choose from

Clip Art
Auto Shapes
Organizational Charts
Image Files
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Animation

• The way objects appear and disappear
• Select any object and right click to Custom
  Animation
• Choose ways to entrance, emphasis and exit
• Limit the number of different effects distracts
  viewer
• Limit sounds to avoid annoyance (like drive by!)

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Charts

• Great to show results of research
• Select Insert, Charts
• Replace the data with your own

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Video

• Insert, Movies and Sounds
• PowerPoint prefers avi and wmv files

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Hyperlinks

• Select text or object and Insert, Hyperlink or
  Ctrl-K
• Hyperlink to
• a web page or
• program file
• another slide
• Use Action Buttons

Click this after animation bullet!
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Why use electronic presentation software?

• Enhance oral presentation
• Captivate audience with
• Images
• Graphs
• Animation

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Slide Transition

• The change from slide to slide
• Select Slide Show, Slide Transition
• Mouse click or automatically after X seconds
• Whole presentation can be automated (Set Up Show)