Hands-On Exercises

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Carrie Foraker, the popular culture expert at the Shelbyville Public Library, will be giving a presentation about the history of printed music. She has decided to use PowerPoint to illustrate her examples and wishes to design a custom design template to fit the occasion. In this exercise, assume the role of Carrie and perform the steps that she identifies.

1. Download and save the following files to your personal storage location:
• Music01.jpg
• Music02.jpg

CLICK: the new button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image1ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (50.0K)</a> ) to start a new blank presentation and. Save this as "Music template" in your personal storage location.

2. Carrie will build her template in the Slide Master.

CHOOSE: View, Master, Slide Master

3. First, she wants to apply the musically theme background she made.

CHOOSE: Format, Background

CLICK: the color drop-down box and choose "Fill Effects" as shown in Figure 3.1.

Figure 3.1 Choosing Fill Effects

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4. CLICK: the Picture tab in the Fill Effects dialog box. Your screen should now appear similar to Figure 3.2.

Figure 3.2 The picture tab of the Fill Effects dialog box

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CLICK: the Select Picture button and browse to your personal storage location.

CLICK: the Music01.jpg file

CLICK: the Insert button

5. CLICK: the OK button to close the Fill Effects dialog box

CLICK: the Apply button to close the Background dialog box

Your screen should now appear similar to Figure 3.3

Figure 3.3 The Slide Master with a new background applied

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6. Now Carrie will add a side bar graphic.

CLICK: the Insert Picture button

CLICK: the Music02.jpg file

CLICK: the Insert button

7. Using the sizing handles, Carrie adjusts the sidebar so that it is positioned and resized as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3.4 The Slide Master with added graphic

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8. Because of the graphic, the placeholders for the title and text must be resized.

CLICK: the left sizing handle for the title placeholder and drag it to the right out of the way of the graphic

Repeat this procedure for the text placeholder.

9. Satisfied with her creation, Carrie saves the presentation as a template with the file name "Music".

CHOOSE: File, Save As

SELECT: Design Template from the Save As Type drop-down box. ( Note: If you are unable to save to the default template directory, then save the template to your personal storage area.)

Data File: Music01 (39.0K)
Data File: Music02 (7.0K)

 
Beavercreek High School Student Council: Inserting Graphics Objects

It is time for Student Council Treasurer Dana Becker to give the funds report. With the earnings from the new soda pop machine, she has good news to report. She has decided to present the funds report with the help of a PowerPoint presentation. She already has a basic design from last month, but she wants to "pep it up" for this month. In this exercise, you will assume the role of Dana as she inserts a chart into her presentation.

1. Open the PP03XTRA01 file and save it as "Funds Report" to your personal storage location.
2. Dana wants to put a pie chart to show the revenue breakdown on a new slide.

Add a slide after slide 3 and apply the Title and Content layout.

TYPE: Revenue Breakdown in the title placeholder of the new slide.

CLICK: the Insert Chart icon in the content placeholder.

3. By default, the chart is a column chart. Dana changes it to a pie chart.

RIGHT-CLICK: the column chart

CHOOSE: Chart Type

SELECT: Pie chart from the Chart Type dialog box

CLICK: the OK button

4. Replace the data in the datasheet with that shown in Figure 3.5

Figure 3.5 datasheet

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5. CLICK: anywhere outside the chart placeholder to finalize the chart. Your screen should now appear similar to Figure 3.6.

Figure 3.6 Completed Pie Chart

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6. Save and close the "Funds Report" presentation.

Data File: PP03XTRA01 (17.0K)

ColsOhio.com: Formatting and Manipulating Draw Objects

Adam Dickson, the young dot-com entrepreneur, has decided that what his new business really needs is a logo. Using PowerPoint’s drawing tools, assume the role of Adam and perform the same steps that he identifies.

1. Begin a new presentation and select the Title Only layout for the first slide. Save the presentation as "Site Logo" to your personal storage location.
2. Type ColsOhio.com in the title placeholder.

In the following steps, you will create the logo shown in Figure 3.7.

Figure 3.7 Logo

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3. First, create an oval using the Drawing toolbar.

CLICK: Oval button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image9ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (50.0K)</a> ) on the Drawing toolbar

CLICK: in the area below the title

4. While referring to the sample, resize the oval so that it is wider than it is tall
5. Let’s change the oval’s color from light blue to dark blue. With the oval still selected:

CLICK: Fill Color drop-down arrow on the Drawing toolbar

CLICK: dark blue in the color palette

6. Now copy this oval and reposition it.

CLICK: Copy button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image10ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a> ) on the Standard toolbar

CLICK: Paste button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image11ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a> ) on the Standard toolbar

Reposition this new oval using the sample as your guide. Change its fill color to a medium blue.

7. Repeat step 6 to create the final light blue oval.
8. Add the text.

RIGHT-CLICK: the light blue oval

CHOOSE: Add Text

Type: ColsOhio.com

Use the Font Size drop-down box to resize the font so that it matches the sample.

9. Finally, group the logo so that it will be considered one object.

CLICK: the dark blur oval

PRESS: <a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image12ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (50.0K)</a> and hold it down

CLICK: the other two ovals

CLICK: Draw button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/007247050x/26834/Ch03_Image13ho.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (0.0K)</a> ) on the Drawing toolbar

CHOOSE: Group

10. Save and close the "Site Logo" presentation.