Using Embedded Visuals to
Enhance a Slide Show
By Viridiana Robles

Creating Exciting Presentations
Using Embedded Visuals
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The starting point for a presentation is using bulleted lists and simple graphics.
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PowerPoint allows you to create exciting presentations which are used to impress the audience.

To develop impressive presentations with PowerPoint
Creating a custom background Embedding organization charts and tables
Customizing bullets Creating new graphics

A problem
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While developing a presentation, it can sometimes be difficult finding the proper graphic to express your message.
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Two Solutions to this problem are:
• to solve this is to modify clip art from the Microsoft
Clip Gallery
• to create a table.

Importing Text Created in
Another Application
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Opening an outline created in another application
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Changing presentation design templates
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Changing the font
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Saving the presentation

Ways of Creating and Embedding an Organization Chart
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First, display the slide that will contain the organization chart.
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Next, change the AutoLayout to the
Organization Chart AutoLayout.
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Then, open the the Microsoft Organization
Chart application.
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Last, enter and format the contents of the boxes in the organization chart window.

Ways of Creating and Embedding an Organization Chart (Cont.)
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Changing slide layouts
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Click the Next Slide button on the scroll bar in order to display Slide 3.
2.
Then click Slide Layout (on the Common
Tasks button menu).
3.
Once the dialog box appears, type the number
7 to select the Organization Chart AutoLayout from the 24 Layouts.
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Finally, click on the Apply button.

Ways of Creating and Embedding an Organization Chart (Cont.)
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Microsoft organization
Chart is composed of :
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A Manager box
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Located at the top of the chart
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The topmost manger is called the root manager
(identifies the purpose of the organization Chart)
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Subordinate boxes
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Located at a lower level than its manager

Ways of Creating and Embedding an Organization Chart (Cont.)
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Adding subordinate boxes
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The Microsoft Organization Chart contains five types of boxes which are:
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Subordinate box
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Co-worker box
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Co-worker box (different from the other co-worker box)
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Manager box
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Assistant Box

Ways of Creating and Embedding an Organization Chart (Cont.) a) PowerPoint allows you to add shadow effects to boxes in an organization chart.
b) It also allows you to change border styles in an Organization
Chart. c) You can also scale an
Organization Chart
Object.
d) It also helps you move the
Organization Chart.

You can also scale an
Organization Chart Object .
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To Insert a table into a slide, you have to:
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Click the Next Slide button (on the scroll bar)
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Next, click the Common Tasks button (on the formatting toolbar)
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Then, click on Slide Layout.
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Last, Double-click the Table slide layout in row
1 of the table.

Table
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To format a table, you have to add borders.
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It helps draw attention to the object by defining its edges.
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A border has two different lines.
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Line Style
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Determines the line thickness and line appearance of the border.
2.
Line Color
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Determines the color of the line that forms the border.

Table (Cont.)
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It is also helpful to add color to the lines of the border to attract more attention to the table.
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Two ways to do this is by:
1.
Line color
2.
Fill color

PowerPoint Clip Art Object
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PowerPoint allows you to insert a Clip art picture from the drawing toolbar.
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It also allows you to scale and move a clip art picture.
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It can also ungroup a clip art picture.
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PowerPoint allows you to deselect clip art objects.
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You can also delete a
PowerPoint object.

Adding Slide Transition and
Text Preset Animation Effects
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To add slide transition and text preset animation effects
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Click the Slide Sorter View button on the bottom-left side of the window.
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While holding down the Shift key, click slide 2 and release the shift key.
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Click the Slide Transition effects arrow and click Strips
Right-Down
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Click the Preset Animation box arrow and click on
Zoom In From Screen Center.

Adding Slide Transition and
Text Preset Animation Effects
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To print slides as handouts
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On the menu bar, click File and click Print.
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Click the Print what box arrow and click Handouts.
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Click on Pure Black and
White and click the OK button.