Subject: Using PowerPoint: basic and advanced concepts

Compulsory cross-disciplinary core courses

ACTIVITY 3 > Block 3

Professor:Javier Narciso RomeroUniversity Professor

Contents

1. Views2. Background3. Working with slides4. Arranging objects5. Design6. Working with text7. Speaker's notes8. Printing9. Working with images10. Working with tables11. Working with graphics12. Drawing toolbar13. Multimedia elements14. Animations and transitions15. Publishing16. PowerPoint and Internet

There are three basic modes:

• Work (slide or layout)

• Outline (general view of all slides)

• Presentation

1. Views

There are many possibilities.

• Using a predefined theme

• Using a template

• Creating a template

2. Background

• Inserting a new slide

• Selecting slides (inserting slides from another presentation)

• Copying a slide

• Duplicating a slide

• Moving slides

• Deleting slides

3. Working with slides

• Rulers, gridlines and guides

• Inserting objects

• Types of object

• Selecting objects

• Copying objects

• Moving objects

4. Arranging objects

• Deleting objects

• Resizing objects

• Distance between objects

• Rotating and flipping

• Aligning and distributing

• Ordering objects

4. Arranging objects

• Applying a theme

• Slide background

• Colour schemes

• Quick styles

• Slide numbering

• Slide template

• Creating and modifying slide designs

5. Design

• Applying a theme

• Slide background

• Colour schemes

• Quick styles

• Slide numbering

• Slide template

• Creating and modifying slide designs

5. Design

• Inserting text

• Adding new text

• Deleting text

• Spell check

• Changing aspects of text

• Font and character spacing

• Font and spacing between lines and characters

6. Working with text

• Aligning paragraphs

• Indents

• Deleting text

• Tabs

• Bullets and numbering

• Customising bullets

• Search and replace

6. Working with text

• Creating notes

• Notes page and printing

• Note template

• Viewing notes during a presentation

• Moderator view

7. Speaker's notes

• Printing

• Print preview

• Print options

• What and how to print?

• Document template

• Slide size

• Header and footer

• The printer

8. Printing

• Inserting images

• Image characteristics

• Changing image characteristics

• Resizing and cropping

• Image styles

• Photo album

9. Working with images

• Creating tables

• Deleting a table, row or column

• Inserting columns or rows

• Fundamental aspects of tables

• Selection in tables

• Table borders

• Fill colour

• Merging and splitting cells

• Fill effects

10. Working with tables

• Creating and deleting graphics

• Graphic tools

• Changing graphic type and design

• Graphic format

11. Working with graphics

• Drawing a shape

• Types of shape

• Working with shapes

• Text in shapes

• Shape styles

• Grouping and ungrouping

12. Drawing toolbar

• Inserting sound

• Sound reproduction

• Changing the play icon

• Markers in audio

• Editing sound

• Inserting and playing videos

13. Multimedia elements

• Animating text and objects

• Animations pane

• Order of animations

• Slide transition

14. Animations and transitions

• Packaging for CD

• Exporting to Word, PDF or video

• Tips for screening

15. Publishing

• Introduction

• SkyDrive

• Preparing to share

• SkyDrive as a service

• Inside SkyDrive

• Microsoft email account

• SkyDrive as a desktop application

• SkyDrive compared to similar services

16. PowerPoint and Internet

• SkyDrive on mobile phones

• Sharing: email address

• Sharing: online presentation

• Sharing: inviting people

• Sharing: links and social networks

• PowerPoint Web App

• PowerPoint on mobile phones

• Saving to SharePoint

16. PowerPoint and Internet

Javier Narciso Romeronarciso@ua.es

University Professor Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry