Case Problems

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Del has now gained a lot of experience using Office’s integrating techniques and he is eager to continue practicing. Assume the role of Del as he creates a sign.

1. Del wants to create a one-sheet sized sign for the store. He used to use Word for this, but has since grown fond of the PowerPoint design templates. He decides to create the sign first in PowerPoint and then resize the design and print from Word. First, Del opens the sign design, INT02XTRA03.ppt and saves it as "sign" to his personal storage location.
   Del first copies the slide in the Outline pane and pastes it into a new Word document. ( Hint: Use Paste Special.) He then uses the resize handles first to stretch the design horizontally and then vertically. His document now appears similar to Figure 2.6.

Figure 2.6 PowerPoint slide reshaped in Word

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Del then notices the rather glaring spelling error. He double-clicks the embedded slide to correct the spelling of "duble" to "double." He notices that, when in edit mode, the slide reverts back to its original shape. When he exits back to word by clicking outside of the embedded slide, the slide reverts to the shape he gave it. Del saves the Word document as "Peanut Butter Double Chip sign" to his personal storage location and exits Word and PowerPoint.

Data File: INT02XTRA03 (19.0K)

2. Del likes to use PowerPoint for employee meetings. He usually outlines these meetings in Word and, rather than retype the information, exports the outline to PowerPoint.
   Del opens the INT02XTRA06.doc Word file and saves it to his personal storage location as "Meeting Outline." He converts the outline to PowerPoint and applies the "Capsules" design template. He corrects the first slide by changing it to the Title layout and deletes the text placeholder on the final slide in preparation for the next exercise. Finally, he saves the presentation as "meeting" to his personal storage location.

Data File: INT02XTRA06 (24.0K)

3. Del has been waging an advertising campaign to boost sales of chocolate chip cookies. His employees have been in on the campaign with a suggestive sales contest. Del has determined that the team has met its sales goals and wishes to present this information at the next meeting with the help of a PowerPoint slide show. He has created a graph in Excel that tracks the sales of chocolate chip cookies over the last six months and wants to use it in the slide show.
   Del opens the INT02XTRA04.xls Excel file and saves it as "Cookie Graph" to his personal storage location. He copies the Excel chart to the clipboard and then switches to the last slide of the PowerPoint presentation from the previous exercise. After Del embeds the chart, he moves and resizes the object so that it looks similar to Figure 2.7.

Figure 2.7 Embedded Excel chart in PowerPoint

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Del saves the revised presentation as "meeting - revised" to his personal storage location. He then closes both PowerPoint and Excel.

Data File: INT02XTRA04 (14.0K)