Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
Module 1: Creating a Presentation
Module Objectives
You will have mastered the material in this module when you can:
- Plan and create a new presentation
- Create a title slide and slides with bulleted lists
- Edit and format text
- Move and copy text
- Convert a list to a SmartArt diagram
- Duplicate, rearrange, and delete slides
- Close a presentation
- Open an existing presentation
- Change the theme and theme variant
- Insert and crop photos
- Modify photo compression options
- Resize and move objects
- Create speaker notes
- Check the spelling
- Run a slide show
- Print slides, handouts, speaker notes, and the outline
Planning a Presentation
- Listen to this video as you follow along on pages PPT1 to PP4
- Quick Quiz:
- What is a presentation?
- What are some various types of presentation media.
Starting PowerPoint and Creating a New Presentation & Creating a Title Slide
- Read and do pages PPT5 to PPT8 and watch and do this video as you go.
- Remember that you can insert placeholders to hold a place for text, graphics, or slides, and that these placeholders can be filled in at a later point.
- If an incorrect placeholder is used, it will self-correct once the content is inserted. For instance, if text is entered into a graphics placeholder, it automatically becomes a text box.
- Quick Quiz:
- True/False: Normal view displays slides one at a time in the Slide pane.
- What is a contextual tab?
- True/False: The font style for the title text and the body must be the same.
- True/False: Once you enter text in a placeholder it is referred to as a text box.
Saving and Editing a Presentation
- Read and do pages PPT8 to PPT11 while watching this video
- You should save an edited presentation with a different name so the original file stays intact.
- If you need to edit a presentation, you should make sure you are opening the correct version of the file, as there may be more than one version of the file saved.
- You can turn the AutoCorrect feature on or off. If this feature is on, you can accept or reject changes that the AutoCorrect feature has made.
- Quick Quiz:
- Can a saved and closed presentation be reopened and edited?
- Can a closed presentation be opened again if it has not been saved?
- What are some reasons why it would be necessary to save several versions of the same file?
- True/False: When you point to a button in the PowerPoint interface, a ScreenTip appears.
- True/False: The Save As screen appears every time you click the Save button.
Adding New Slides
- Read and do pages PPT11 to PPT14 and watch and do this video.
- Remember that when you click the top part of the New Slide button, a new slide is inserted with the same layout as the current slide, unless the current slide is the title slide; in that case the new slide has the Title and Content layout. If you want to create a new slide with a different layout, click the bottom part of the New Slide button to open a gallery of layouts, and then click the layout you want to use.
- Quick Quiz:
- True/False: You can recover an unsaved presentation.
- You can switch from one slide to another by clicking the slide ____________ in the Slides tab.
Creating Lists
- Read and do pages PPT14 to PPT19 and watch and do this video.
- Be sure to review Autofit options and know the pros and cons of the feature. See PPT 15.
- Make sure you understand that the Decrease List Level button promotes an item and the Increase List Level button demotes an item.
- Quick Quiz
- Moving an item higher in the outline, for example, changing a second-level bullet into a first-level bullet is called:
- Demoting
- Promoting
- AutoCorrect
- Font Style
- Moving an item higher in the outline, for example, changing a second-level bullet into a first-level bullet is called: