Transcript Customizing Options

ADVANCED MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT
Lesson 8 – Customizing Options
Microsoft Office 2003:
Advanced
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Objectives
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Customize a color scheme.
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Modify the slide background.
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Create custom slide masters.
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Create a custom show.
Objectives (cont.)
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Customize toolbars.
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Customize animation options.
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Create a new design template.
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Customize a Web presentation.
Terms Used in This Lesson
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Agenda slide: A slide that lists the titles of
custom shows within a presentation.
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Color scheme: A set of eight colors that
work well together. All the text, line, and
fills in a design template are controlled by
the color scheme. Most design templates
have several color schemes to choose
from.
Terms Used in This Lesson (cont.)
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Custom show: A group of related slides
within a presentation that are gathered and
given a presentation name (a subpresentation).
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Slide background: The color, pattern,
texture, and/or graphics that comprise the
bottom-most layer of a slide.
Customizing the Color Scheme
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A color scheme is a palette of eight colors that
work well together and that you use for all the
slides in a presentation.
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Changing the color scheme is a quick way to
give a slide show a new look.
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Select a new color scheme by opening the Slide
Design task pane from the Format menu and
selecting Color Schemes.
Customizing the Color
Scheme (cont.)
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You can pick from the
standard color palette
or create your own
custom color.
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Change elements of
the current color
scheme to create a
custom color scheme.
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Select a scheme color
in the Edit Color
Scheme dialog box
and click Change
Color to choose a new
color.
Customizing the Slide Background
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The slide background is the bottom “layer” of the
slide.
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From the Format menu and choose Background
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Options for changing the slide background
include
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Selecting a new background color from the current
color scheme.
Selecting any color from the color palette.
Applying an effect from the Fill Effects dialog box.
Customizing the Slide
Background (cont.)
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The Fill Effects dialog box contains
four tabs of options for backgrounds:
– Use the Gradient tab to create
special color effects.
– Select one of 24 textures from
the Texture tab.
– Apply a pattern using the Pattern
tab.
– Choose a background picture on
the Picture tab.
Choose the down arrow from the Background dialog box then click Fill Effects
Customizing Masters
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A presentation’s masters control appearance and
layout of items on a slide or handout.
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Most presentations have four masters: the slide
master, the title master, the handout master, and
the notes master.
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Besides containing text placeholders, slide and
title masters often include background graphics.
Customizing Masters (cont.)
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You can customize a presentation’s appearance
by changing master items.
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For example, you can move the slide number
placeholder to the top of the slide so that
numbers will appear there on all slides.
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You can also add text boxes or graphics to
masters to have them appear on all slides.
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From the View menu choose Master then Slide
Master, Note Master, or Handout Master
Customizing Masters (cont.)
The slide master
contains
placeholders for
title and bulleted
text
The master also
contains
graphic
elements for
the slide
background
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Creating Custom Shows
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A custom show is a group of related slides in a
presentation stored with a specific name.
Custom shows are actually presentations within
a presentation.
From the Slide Show menu choose Custom
Shows then click new
Create a custom
show by selecting
slides from the
presentation to add
to the show
Customizing Toolbars
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You can customize toolbars to show only the
tools you want.
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You can also create your own toolbar.
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To create or customize a toolbar, use the
options in the Customize dialog box, which is
accessed through the Tools menu.
Customizing Toolbars (cont.)
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On the Commands
tab, select a
category.
Commands for that
category appear at
the right side of the
box.
Drag commands to
any toolbar as
desired.
Creating Custom Animation
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Control the display of information on slides with
custom animation effects.
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Use animation effects to “fly” titles into position,
make bulleted items appear one by one, or
control a sound or movie object.
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Apply custom animation effects from the Slide
show menu and then choose Custom Animation
the task pane will appear.
Creating Custom Animation (cont.)
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Click arrow
for additional
options
Use the Custom
Animation task pane
to
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Click Play to
test
animations
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Add an entrance,
emphasis, exit, or
motion path effect.
Specify a start option.
Set direction and
speed.
Change the order in
which effects occur.
Creating a Design Template
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Create your own design template to use
for presentations that require a uniform
look.
Create a design template by
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Modifying an existing design template to fit
your tastes and needs.
Starting from a blank presentation and
adding everything from the background up.
Creating a Design Template (cont.)
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Save a template with your files, or let
PowerPoint place it in the Templates folder.
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Custom templates in the Templates folder
display in the Slide Design pane.
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To access a template saved elsewhere, click
Browse in the Slide Design task pane and
locate the template.
Customizing Web Pages
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Save any presentation as a Web page using the
Save as Web page command on the File menu.
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Click Change Title to specify a different page
title.
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For more control over a Web presentation, click
the Publish button to open the Publish as Web
page dialog box.
Customizing Web Pages (cont.)
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In the Publish as
Web Page dialog
box, you can
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Click Web Options to see
additional publishing options.
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Specify the slides to
publish.
Select browser
versions to support.
Set the Web page
title and the file
name.
Summary
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Changing the color scheme is a quick way to
give slides a fresh new look.
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You have many options for changing the
background of a slide.
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PowerPoint’s masters control the placement
of text and other items on a slide, as well as
color, font, style, and size of text.
Summary (cont.)
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Custom shows are like presentations within
presentations.
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Customizing toolbars lets you emphasize tools
that you use frequently.
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PowerPoint offers many different animation
effects you can use to help control information
during a presentation, as well as to add visual
interest to your slides.
Summary (cont.)
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You can easily create your own design
template.
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PowerPoint allows you to publish
presentations to the Web so that a wide
audience can access them.
Homework – PowerPoint
Lesson 8
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