Adding Speaker Notes

  1. Read and do pages PPT48 to PPT50 while watching and doing this video
  2. Be sure you understand that the purpose of speaker notes is to guide the speaker during the presentation.
  3. Speaker notes will not appear on the slide show presentation itself.
  4. Quick Quiz:
    1. What is another name for notes?
    2. True/False: Speaker notes will appear on the slide show when it is being presented to an audience.

Checking Spelling

  1. Read and do pages PPT50 to PPT52 while watching and doing this video
  2. Notice that if a word isn’t in the PowerPoint dictionary it will not AutoCorrect.
  3. Make sure you understand the importance of proofreading your presentation even if it has been spell-checked. Remember that contextual spell-checking is not 100 percent accurate, and it will not catch every instance of a misused word.
  4. Quick Quiz:
    1. Performing a final check of the spelling of all the text in a presentation is called _________.
    2. True/False: You can right-click a flagged word and select a suggested alternate spelling from a shortcut menu.

 Running a Slide Show

  1. Read and do pages PPT52 to PPT56 while watching and doing this video
  2. Although viewing your slide show presentation in Slide Show view or Reading view is a good way to see your presentation as the client would see it, you are unable to edit the slide show in this mode.
  3. If your presentation is being viewed in Slide Show view each slide is displayed so it fills the entire screen.
  4. Quick Quiz:
    1. _________ view displays each slide so that it fills the entire screen with no toolbars or other Windows elements visible on the screen.
    2. True/False: A presentation can be edited in Reading view.
    3. True/False: In Slide Show view, the slides in a presentation will advance themselves automatically.
    4. What are the various ways to advance slides manually in a slide show presentation.?
    5. What are the pros and cons of viewing your presentation in Slide Show view and Reading view? 

Printing a Presentation

  1. Read and do pages PPT56 to PPT60 while watching and doing this video
  2. A presentation can be printed in color, grayscale, or pure black and white. All or just some of the slides can be printed.
  3. Slides in a presentation can be printed in a Full Page, Notes Page, Outline, or Handout format depending on the purpose for printing the slides.
  4. Quick Quiz:
    1. True/False: You cannot print speaker notes.
    2. True/False: When you print an outline of a presentation, you only print the text.
    3. True/False: You can print non-sequential slides.
    4. When would you opt to print full-page slides, notes pages, outlines, or handouts?
    5. Consider whether printing a presentation is ever really necessary. If so, in what types of situations?

 Exiting PowerPoint

  1. Read and do pages PPT60 to PPT61 while watching and doing this video
  2. Make sure you know how to close multiple presentations.
  3. Quick Quiz
    1. To close a presentation, click the ______ button in the upper-right corner of the PowerPoint window.