Using PowerPoint

© Copyright William Rowan 2007

Objective

By the end of this you will be able to:

• Create slides through the use of an ICT package and a CAD package of key steps involved in creating a drawing

Using PowerPoint

• To create slides we are going to use Microsoft Office PowerPoint

• Double click on the PowerPoint icon to open it

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• The previous slide shows the open window of PowerPoint

• Its operating features are very similar to Word and Excel i.e. saving, inserting pictures is the same

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• The first thing you should do is chose an appropriate background for your slides

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To do this

• Select the “Format” menu and then select “Slide Design”

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• This will open a new menu in the PowerPoint window showing a list of possible designs that you can chose for your slides (See next slide)

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• To chose one of these designs simply click on it to add it as your design

Additional Page Design

Cover Page design

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• Once you have made your selection click on the X on this “Slide Design” menu to close the menu

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You will now need to add more slides to your presentation

Click on the “Insert” menu and select “New Slide”

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• This will also open a new menu in the window where you can apply a layout to the slide

• To chose one click on it and this will then apply to that slide

• Alternatively use the shortcut key Ctrl +M

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• Possible layouts:– Text Only– Title and text– Content Only i.e. graphs, tables, clipart– Title, text and content– Title, text and clipart

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• When complete click on the X again to close the menu

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NB:

• The layout you chose will only apply to the slide you are working on

• You will need to change the layout if desired for each slide separately after this again

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• To insert text to a slide click where its says “Click to add title/ text” and type in the words you want

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• To insert pictures, clipart, movies, etc… use the insert menu and then select the feature you want to insert

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• Once you have your slides created with the necessary text and images you can apply an animation to the presentation

• To start using this click on the “Slide Show” menu and then select “Animation Schemes”

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• This will open the a new menu window in screen

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• It is here you can select the various animations for each slide

• To apply an animation click on the name of the animation

• If you want an animation to apply to all slides in the presentation then press “Apply to All Slides” at the bottom of the menu window

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• You can also change the transition of the slides

• To do this follow the same procedure for animating but select “Slide Transition” in the “Slide Show” menu

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• To animate images you need to select “Custom Animation” from the “Slide Show” menu

• This will open a new menu window

• Click on the image and select the “Add Effect” tab in the menu window to select the effect you want to apply to the image

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• Once the chosen effect is applied, it is possible to change the order of the animation by using the appropriate “Re-Order” tabs at the bottom of the window

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• To view your slideshow Select “View Slideshow” from the “Slide Show” menu

• Or press “F5” on your keyboard

Now you try!

• Using Microsoft PowerPoint create a series of slides on how to create a drawing in SolidWorks

• To do this I recommend that you use print screen to insert images into PowerPoint or save the images as a JPEG from SolidWorks

Additional Tutorials

• http://www.actden.com/pp/

• http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html