Hands-On Exercises

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1. Shelbyville Public Library: Editing a Presentation

Brent Bowman is the head librarian at the Shelbyville Public Library. He routinely gives presentations at local elementary schools to promote the library’s services. Recently, the library has hired a new story teller and added Internet service and Brent wishes to update his PowerPoint presentation. Assume the role of Brent in opening, editing, and saving an existing presentation.

Open the PP01XTRA01 presentation.
Save the presentation as "Shelbyville Public Library" to your personal storage location. (Hint: Choose File, Save As.) Your screen should appear similar to Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1
"Shelbyville Public Library" presentation

To view the slides in the presentation:

CLICK: Next Slide button ( ) on the vertical scroll bar to advance to the next slide

Continue with step 3 until you’ve viewed all of the slide sin the presentation.
CLICK: Previous Slide button ( ) on the vertical scroll bar until slide 2 appears in the Slide pane
Change the text of the first bullet point from "Attend Ms. Piper’s story hour" to "Attend Ms. Daneel’s story hour."

DOUBLE-CLICK: the text "Piper’s" in the Slide pane

TYPE: Daneel’s

Using the Outline tab, add a bullet point on the third slide

CLICK: Next Slide button ( ) to display slide 3

CLICK: after the word "homework" in the last bullet point in the Outline tab as shown in Figure 1.2.

Figure 1.2
Positioning your cursor to create a new bullet point

PRESS: to create a new bullet point
TYPE: Explore the Internet
Save and then close the revised presentation.

Data File: PP01XTRA01 (33.0K)

2. Beavercreek High School Student Council: Editing an AutoContent Presentation

Mita Patel is the president of the Beavercreek High School student council. Since receiving her nifty laptop for her birthday, she has been experimenting with PowerPoint to add visual impact to student council meetings. She wants to create a presentation to help brainstorm ideas for the winter dance. In this exercise, assume the role of Mita and perform the steps listed below.

Launch the AutoContent wizard and then make the following choices when prompted:

SELECT: the "Brainstorming Session" presentation from the "General" category
SELECT: "On-screen presentation" as the output option
TYPE: Winter Dancein the Presentation title text box and click the Finish command button to compile the presentation

Delete the existing text from the subtitle placeholder on the first slide and then type the following, inserting your actual name where indicated: Prepared by: followed by your name.
Using the Outline tab, delete slide 4. Then, delete slides 5 and 7. (Note: Click the OK command button when prompted.)
Using the Outline tab, edit the bulleted list on slide 3 to include only the following items:

Create theme
Decide on colors
DJ or band?
Admission cost

Insert a slide that uses the Title and Text layout after slide 3.
Edit the new slide by typing Past Themes and Colors in the Title placeholder and the following bullet points in the bulleted list placeholder:

Winter Love — Red and White
Holiday Jive — Green and Red
A December to Remember — Blue and White

The slide should appear similar to Figure 1.3.

Figure 1.3
Bulleted List

Save the presentation as "Winter Dance" to your personal storage location.

3. ColsOhio.com: Creating a Presentation

Adam Dickson is a Columbus, Ohio resident who wants to start a web site that showcases activities and entertainment options available in the city. He wants to create a presentation to pitch the web site to prospective advertisers. In this exercise, assume the role of Adam to create a new presentation from a design template and add new slides.