Slide Themes

by: Engr. Esmeraldo T. Guimbarda Jr.

Microsoft Power Point gives you ways to create and share dynamic presentations with your audience. It is a powerful communication tool to present views and ideas effectively using diagrams, photos, sounds, designs and animations. It uses a graphical approach to presentations in the form of slide shows that accompany the oral delivery of the topic. In addition, it is widely used in business and classrooms and is an effective tool when used for training purposes.

Creating a New FileCreating a new file enables you to start on your presentation. This creates a blank presentation in your workspace. The Blank Presentation can be found in File > New > Blank Presentation. Shortcut to this action is by pressing Ctrl + N.

Adding a New SlideAdding a new slide enables you to populate your presentation with the number of slides you’ll need. New Slide can be found on the quick access toolbar. Shortcut to this action is Ctrl + M.

Applying a Slide Theme

A theme is a set of colors, fonts, effects, and more that can be applied to your entire presentation to give it a consistent, professional look. You've already been using a theme, even if you didn't know it: the default Office theme, which consists of a white background, the Calibri font, and primarily black text. Themes can be applied or changed at any time at the Design tab.

Adding New Image

PowerPoint offers you a number of different ways to add clip art and pictures to a presentation. Perhaps the easiest way to do so is to select a slide layout that contains a placeholder for content such as clip art and pictures. An alternative to this method is to select the Insert tab on the ribbon and click on the Picture or Clip Art icon (Insert > Picture or Insert > Clip Art).

Exploring the Interface

Creating a new file enables you to start on your presentation. This creates a blank presentation in your workspace. The Blank Presentation can be found in File > New > Blank Presentation.

1 ― File Menu and Backstage View: When you click the File menu (the equivalent of the Office Button in PowerPoint 2007), you see the new Backstage view that contains all the creation, save, share, and print options for your presentations.

2 ― Quick Access Toolbar: Also known as the QAT, this is a customizable toolbar placed by default on the top of Ribbon -- you can add icons for your often used commands to this toolbar. The QAT can also be placed below the Ribbon.3 ― Ribbon: The Ribbon has tabs which in turn contain groups of buttons for various options -- some groups also contain galleries (for example galleries for Themes and Theme Colors).

4 ― Slides/Outline Pane: Normally placed on the left side of the interface, this pane contains two tabs -- the Slides tab and the Outline tab. The Slides tab shows thumbnails of all the slides in the open presentation. The Outline tab shows the same slides in outline view.5 ― Slide Area: Displays the active slide.6 ― Task Pane: The Task Pane contains more options and appears when you choose an option in one of the Ribbon tabs -- for example if you click the Clip Art button on the Insert tab of the Ribbon, the Clip Art task pane opens.

7 ― Status Bar: A horizontal strip that provides information about the opened presentation like slide number, applied Theme, etc. It also includes the view and zoom options. The View buttons are explained later in this page (see 8).8 ― Notes Pane: Directly below the active slide, this is where you input speaker notes for the current slide. None of this content is visible on the actual slide while presenting ― although it is visible in both Notes Page view and Presenter view.

9 ― View Buttons: Essentially there are four view buttons on the status bar displayed towards the left of the zoom-in and zoom-out options:Normal View - Clicking this enables Normal view, Shift-clicking this gets you to Slide Master view.Slide Sorter View - Clicking this displays zoom-able thumbnails of every slide in the open presentation. Shift-clicking this button gets you to Handout Master view.Reader View - Clicking this displays the presentation in a readable format.Slide Show from current slide - Show the presentation as a full screen slideshow from the current selected slide. Shift-clicking brings up the Set Up Show dialog box.

Activity:1. You will be making your dream vacation posters. First, we have to open Microsoft Powerpoint. Click on Start ►All Programs ► Microsoft Office ► Microsoft Powerpoint or double-click on the Microsoft Powerpoint shortcut on the desktop. This will open a blank presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint.

2. Add creativity to your work by changing the feel of your presentation. Select any Powerpoint theme that suits your dream vacation. To do this, click on Design tab to view all the themes available.

3. Once you have chosen your theme, it’s now time to start making the posters already. On the current slide, key in the destination of your dream vacation. You may change the font style and size.

4. To change the font style, locate on the quick access toolbar a drop down menu that contains the font list. Click on your text box first, then choose your desired font in the font list. The same procedure applies for the font size. Its drop down menu can be found beside the font style.

5. Add details to your dream destination by inserting an image as well as several trivias about the place. Indicate the reason why you chose that place as your dream vacation in another slide. To add another slide, locate the New Slide button on the quick access toolbar or try pressing Ctrl + M.

6. Add text boxes by clicking on Insert ►Text Box. Click on the slide area afterwards to create your text box.

7. You can type your reasons here. These may include facilities, amenities, food, location, crowd, etc.

8. Add image to your presentation to give it an artistic feel. In order to do that, click on Insert ►Picture. A dialogue box will pop out of your screen.

9. Locate the images of the given destinations in the folders present at the left side of the dialogue box.

10. Select the image of your first destination and click Insert to place the picture on the slide.

11. Repeat the same process for your second dream destination. Continue on adding slides for the destination and the short description.

12. Save your work once you are done. Locate the Save button above the menu bar. It will automatically open a dialogue box once it is clicked.

13. Use any filename you want and click Save to finish.

14. You are now ready to present your work in class! Be proud and share to them your favorite destinations.