PowerPoint Drill and class II

Hello Subscribers,

Today, I shall be concluding this week the PowerPoint Procedures we listed and shall then move to another application entirely – Windows OS.

Review of the previous class.

Why Maximize? Please note that it is not a must for your screen to be loaded maximized (Full Screen) or Restored (placed as a thumbnail in the center of the screen), but if that latter is what you are faced with, then, there is need to use the maximize button as explained.

As soon as you have maximized the screen – (when you should) you should have this screen 

                                              Fig 1: The Welcome screen of PowerPoint 2003

 As you can see, it presents you with option to Add title and Add Subtitle in a “dynamic textbox”. Check Fig 1

Please you can click the link to download the 2003 or 2007 versions and take a view before starting.

START WORKING

CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR OF YOUR PRESENTATION

Office 2003:

On the Menu Bar, choose Format

Then Background; it displays this screen (window)

Choose your choice and click on:

                Apply to apply the background to the current slide alone

                Apply to all to Apply the Background to all the slides (even those that are yet to be inserted)

Office 2007

Using 2007, you are presented with various options: Themes/Design and Background 

changing Background while using Office 2007

Choose the Background of your choice – here when you choose a background, it is auto-previewed on the slide, and you can confirm it by either clicking ‘OK’ or discarding it by clicking ‘cancel’

If you have successfully done what I analyzed, your result should look somewhat like this

SAVING YOUR PRESENTATION

It is important we save our progress at this level.

Office 2003

Click on File Menu,

Choose Save As

Type the Filename (this is the name you choose to save your presentation with – class1)

Click on save.

Office 2007

Here, you click on the Office button

Click on Save As – (Please note here that you have to click on Save As – moving your mouse over it and not clicking displays some sub-options)

Type the file name and Click save.

DRILL

Try and restart this procedures on your own and record your findings in note.