Project-based Tutorial 8 Presentation Tool

MS PowerPoint 2010

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• Try out MS PowerPoint 2010 to create a draft presentation for your project

• Share your ppt on slideshare.net

Today’s tasks

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• Start a new PowerPoint file• Put down the project topic, name and student ID in

slide 1• Add a date to the first slide (in the subtitle area)

– Click the Date & Time button under the Insert tab– Choose Update automatically in the pop up window

Add a date

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• Use the New Slide button under the Home tab to create new slides

• You can also use the Layout button to changethe layout of the slide

Create a new slide

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• Use SmartArt to create a flow chart to introduce the content of the presentation– Click the SmartArt button

under the Insert tab

– Use the Continuous Block Process layout in the Process group

SmartArt

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– Fill in the appropriate content text into the SmartArt box as follow

– You can press Enter to add more bullets

SmartArt

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• You may copy the sample PowerPoint slides from PT8_source_ppt.pptx and paste them to your PowerPoint file

Sample contents

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• Change the Slide Design and Color Scheme under the Design tab

Slide Design

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Select a designChange the color scheme

• Changes in the Slide Master will affect ALL slides in the file

• If we want to add an image to all pages, we can add it in the Slide Master

• Choose the View tab• Then click the Slide Master button in the

Master Views group

Slide Master

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• Choose the Insert tab• Click the Picture button• Choose a picture

• Move the picture to where you want

• You may dim the picture by right-clicking on the picture and choose Format Picture.

• Select Picture Color group, and choose Washout effect under Recolor

• You may also adjust the brightness and contrast if you want.

• Close the Master View under the Slide Master group

Insert a picture

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• Add another SmartArt object to slide 6• Use the layout Horizontal Bullet List under List

group• The data can be found from the file

PT8_source_table.docx

Complete the sample slides contents

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• Copy the tables from the file PT8_source_table.docx and paste them to slides 7 and 8

• You can change the Table Styles under the Design tab

Complete the sample slides contents

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Change the Table Styles

• Choose the Insert tab• Click the Object button• Choose Create from file• Browse for the Excel file that contains the chart

– You may find some sample charts in sample-PT6.xlsx • Do not check Link option

• If the desired chart is not shown,double click on the chart and choose for another worksheetthat contains the desired chart

Insert Chart from Excel

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• Open the video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk

• Click the Share button• Then click the Embed button• Check the boxes for

– Enable privacy-enhanced mode and – Use old embed code

• Copy the code• Then, go to the slide• Choose the Insert tab• Click the Video button and choose

Video from Web Site• Paste the code into the box of the

pop-up window and then click Insert

Embed a YouTubeVideo Clip

• Click the File tab• Click Options• Select Customize

Ribbon• In the list of Main

Tabs, select Developer

• Click OK

Show the Developer Tab on the Ribbon

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• Insert the movie we made from the Video Editing Lab• On the Developer tab, in the Controls group,

click the More Controls button• Scroll down to select Windows Media Player

• Draw a box as big as you want on the slide• Right-click on the box and select Properties• Input the file name in the URL field

– Sample video: RFID_sample.wmv • Note that the video file must be in the same

folder with the PowerPoint file• Close the Properties window

Insert a movie

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• Apply transition effect to all slides under the Transitions tab

Transition Effects

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Select a transition effect

Apply the effect to all slides

Change the speed

• Select any objects which you want to add animation

• Click the Add Animation button under the Animations tab, and choose the effect from the list, you can preview the effect as well

• Click the Animation Pane button in the Advanced Animations group

• The Animation pane will be shown• Adjust the timing, direction and speed by right-clicking the object on the pane

Add Animation

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• We would like to create an automatic slide show that the PowerPoint slides can be run automatically

• You can also insert sound tracks to every slides for the automatic slide show – Choose the Insert tab– Click the Audio button and choose Audio from File

– Go to slide 1– Select the sound file

• Sample file: s1.mp3 – Repeat the steps to insert audio track for other slides by

choosing corresponding mp3 files

Insert audio tracks to the slide

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• Move the sound icon to the bottom right corner• Click the icon and click the Playback tab under Audio Tools• Check the Hide During Show box to hide the icon when the

slide show runs• Choose Play across slides in the Start option

• Move the sound object to the top in the Animation Pane

Insert audio tracks to the slide

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• Click the Slide Show tab, and click Rehearse Timings

• The slide show will start and you click on the slide to set the timing for each slide

• Right-click and choose End Show when you finish rehearsal

Automatic Slide Show

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• Click the File tab• Choose Save As and• Save your file as xxxxxxxx-PT8.pptx

Save your file

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• We may use website http://www.slideshare.net to share our PowerPoint slides

• Click the Upload button

• Then click Create one to register for a free account

• Click the Upload button again• And choose UPLOAD publicly• Upload the .pptx file

Share the slides

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• After finishing upload and conversion, your slides will be published

• You can share it on Facebook, by email or embed it to your webpage

• However, the sound and video embedded in the PowerPoint cannot be played as these functions are not supported

Share the slides & Submission

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Right-click on this link, choose Copy

Link Location

and paste the link to BU eLearning

• To show the YouTube video:– Choose My Uploads at the top right corner

– Choose the file you uploaded– Click Edit / Delete– You can insert YouTube videos

in the slide show

Share the slides

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• We can use PowerPoint to make a photo slide show easily

• Click the Insert tab• Click the Photo Album button• Click File/Disk… to select photos• Select Theme for the photo album• You can make some changes to the photos

(e.g. Rotation, brightness, contrast)

Supplementary - Photo Album

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• Add a date• Create a new slide• SmartArt• Slide Design• Slide Master• Insert a picture• Insert Chart from Excel• Embed a YouTube video clip• Insert a movie• Transition Effects• Custom Animation• Insert sound tracks to the slide• Automatic Slide Show• Share the slides

Summary

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