Presentation Programs

lesson 15

This lesson includes the following sections:

• Presentation Program Basics

• Integrating Multiple Data Sources

• Presenting Slide Shows

• Presentation Programs and Their Uses

• The Presentation Program's Interface

• Creating a Presentation

• Formatting Slides

• Special Features of Presentation Programs

Presentation Program Basics

• Presentation programs are used to create slides–single-screen images that contain text, graphics, charts, and more.

• A collection of slides is called a presentation.

• A presentation program lets you create a set of slides and show (present) them to an audience.

Presentation Program Basics - Presentation Programs and Their Uses

Presentation programs provide many of the same editing and formatting tools found in word processors and other common applications.

Presentation Program Basics - The Presentation Program's Interface

Title barMenu bar

Tool bars

Document area

Drawing toolsStatus bar

• To create a presentation, you can select a predesigned template to create a common look for the slides.

• Individual slide elements appear inside text boxes and frames.

• You can easily add text or graphics to a box or frame, and move or resize it as needed.

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Presentation Program Basics - Creating a Presentation

To resize a frame or text box, click it, then dragone of its handles.

• Fonts and font sizes

• Colors

• Backgrounds

• Borders

You can format a slide by choosing different:

Presentation Program Basics - Formatting Slides

Gradient fill background

Borders

• Outlining—for contents, arrangement and order.

• Annotations—notes to individual slides.

• Animation—moving transitions to parts of a slide.

• Sound and video—audio or multimedia enhancement.

• Embedded objects—WWW links. • HTML conversion—presentations on the Web.

Presentation programs provide several special features:

Presentation Program Basics - Special Features

• You can add different media types, such as audio or video files, to a slide.

• If you present your slides from the PC's disk and have the appropriate output devices, you can present multimedia elements in a slide show.

Integrating Multiple Data Sourcesin a Presentation

• You can present them in any order you like.

• You can display slides on the PC's monitor, project them on a screen, or connect the PC to a TV or large monitor.

• You can move from slide to slide manually, or automate the presentation.

You can print slides and present them on a slide or overhead projector.

You also can display slides directly from the PC's disk, with the following advantages:

Presenting Slide Shows

• Identify four interface elements found in most presentation programs.

• Describe the process of creating a presentation.

• Name three media sources that might be used in a multimedia presentation.

• List three ways that slides can be presented from a presentation program.

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