1. Problem Solving Session 7
Presentation Tool
MS PowerPoint 2010
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2. Today’s tasks
• Try out MS PowerPoint 2010 to create a draft
presentation for your project
• Share your ppt on slideshare.net
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3. Add a date
• Start a new PowerPoint file
• Put down the project topic, name and student ID in slide 1
• Add a date to the first slide (in the subtitle area)
– Click the Date & Time button under the Insert tab
– Choose Update automatically in the pop up window
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4. Create a new slide
• Use the New Slide button under the Home tab to
create new slides
• You can also use the
Layout button to change
the layout of the slide
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5. SmartArt
• Use SmartArt to create a flow chart to introduce the content
of the presentation
– Click the SmartArt button
under the Insert tab
– Use the Continuous Block Process layout in the Process
group
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6. SmartArt
– Fill in the appropriate content text into the SmartArt box
– You can press Enter to add more bullets
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7. Sample contents
• You may copy the sample PowerPoint slides from
source_ppt.pptx and paste them to your
PowerPoint file
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8. Slide Design
• Change the Slide Design and Color Scheme under the
Design tab
Change the color scheme
Select a design
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9. Slide Master
• Changes in the Slide Master will affect ALL slides in the file
• If we want to add an image to ALL pages, we can add it in the
Slide Master
• Choose the View tab
• Then click the Slide Master button in the Master Views group
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10. Insert a picture on a master slide
• Don’t close the Slide Master
Group
• Choose the Insert tab
• Click the Picture button
• Choose a picture and move it
to where you want
• You may dim the picture by
right-clicking on the picture
and choose Format Picture.
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11. Insert a picture on a master slide
• Select Picture Color group, and
choose Washout effect under Recolor
• You may also adjust the brightness
and contrast if you want
• Close the Master View under the
Slide Master group when you finish
editing the master slide
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12. Complete the sample slides contents
• Add another SmartArt object to slide 6
• Use the layout Horizontal Bullet List under List group
• The data can be found from the file source_table.docx
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13. Complete the sample slides contents
• Copy the tables from the file source_table.docx and
paste them to slides 7 and 8
• You can change the Table Styles under the Design tab
Change the Table Styles on
specific rows/columns
Change the Table Styles
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14. Insert Chart from Excel
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Choose the Insert tab
Click the Object button
Choose Create from file
Browse for the Excel file that contains the chart
– You may find some sample charts in sample-PSS6.xlsx
• DO NOT check the Link option
• If the desired chart is not shown,
double click on the chart
and choose for another worksheet
that contains the desired chart
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15. Embed a YouTube Video Clip (1)
• Open the video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
• Click the Share link
• Then click the Embed button
• Check the boxes for
– Enable privacyenhanced mode and
– Use old embed code
• Copy the code
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16. Embed a YouTube Video Clip (2)
• Go to the slide, choose the Insert tab
• Select the Video button, and choose
Video from Web Site
• Paste the code into the box of the pop-up window
• Change the embed code
highlighted below before
clicking the Insert button.
<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtubenocookie.com/v/eob532iEpqk?hl=en_US&amp;version=2&amp;rel=0"></param><param
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"
value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtubenocookie.com/v/eob532iEpqk?hl=en_US&amp;version=2&amp;rel=0" type="application/xshockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
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17. Insert a movie
• Insert the movie we made from the Video Editing Lab
• On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the Video button
and select Video from file
• Choose the video file, e.g. Sample video: RFID_sample.wmv
• You may insert the movie by choose the following options:
– Insert to embed your movie into the PowerPoint file
– Link to File to link the video file placed in the same folder
with the PowerPoint file
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18. Transition Effects
• Apply transition effect to all slides under the Transitions tab
Select a transition effect
Apply the
effect to all
slides
Change the speed
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19. Add Animation
• Select any objects which you want to add animation
• Click the Add Animation button under the Animations tab,
and choose the effect from the list, you can preview the
effect as well
• Click the Animation Pane button
in the Advanced Animations group
• The Animation pane will be shown
• Adjust the timing, direction and speed by
right-clicking the object on the pane
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20. Insert audio tracks to the slide
• We would like to create an automatic slide show that the
PowerPoint slides can be run automatically
• You can also insert sound tracks to every slides for the
automatic slide show
– Choose the Insert tab
– Click the Audio button and choose Audio from File
– Go to slide 1
– Select the sound file, e.g. Sample file: s1.mp3
– Repeat the steps to insert audio track for other slides by choosing
corresponding mp3 files
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21. Insert audio tracks to the slide
• Move the sound icon to the bottom right corner
• Click the icon and select the Playback tab under Audio Tools
• Check the Hide During Show box to hide the icon when the
slide show runs
• Choose Play across slides in the Start option
• Move the sound object to the top in the
Animation Pane
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22. Automatic Slide Show
• Click the Slide Show tab, and click Rehearse Timings
• The slide show will start and you click on the slide to set the
timing for each slide
• Right-click and choose End Show when you finish rehearsal
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23. Save your file
• Click the File tab
• Choose Save As and
• Save your file as xxxxxxxx-PSS7.pptx
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24. Share the slides
• We may use website http://www.slideshare.net to share our
PowerPoint slides
• Click the Upload button
• Then click Sign up to register for a free
account
• Check your email and verify it
• Click the orange UPLOAD button
• Upload the .pptx file
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25. Share the slides & Today’s Submission
• After finishing upload and conversion, click on Save &
Continue your slides will be published.
• You can share it on Facebook, by email or embed it to your
webpage.
• Submit the following to the BU eLearning:
– Copy the Embed code to submit, and click View Presentation
– Copy the URL from the browser and paste to the submission box
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26. Embed Audio and Video
• However, the sound and video embedded in the PowerPoint
cannot be played as these functions are not supported.
• To show the YouTube video:
– Choose My Uploads at the top right corner
– Select Edit and choose Add video
– You can insert YouTube videos in the slide show
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27. Supplementary: Save a theme
• You can save the theme to a file
– Design  All Themes  Save Current Theme…
– Name the theme file (e.g. Theme1.thmx)
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28. Supplementary: Load a theme
• Once the theme is saved, it can be loaded and apply
to another slides (e.g. blank slides)
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29. Supplementary - Photo Album
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We can use PowerPoint to make a photo slide show easily
Click the Insert tab
Click the Photo Album button
Click File/Disk… to select photos
Select Theme for the photo album
You can make some changes to the photos
(e.g. Rotation, brightness, contrast)
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30. Summary
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Add a date
Create a new slide
SmartArt
Slide Design
Slide Master
Insert a picture
Insert Chart from Excel
Embed a YouTube video clip
Insert a movie
Transition Effects
Custom Animation
Insert sound tracks to the slide
Automatic Slide Show
Share the slides
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