“ROMANCE 101” PowerPoint

Instructions © Mike Splane 2007

Introduction

· PowerPoint is a visual medium. It is great for pictures, sounds and motion. It is a poor way to present text. PowerPoint would be great for a Dick and Jane reader or a comic book. It’s a good idea to prepare handouts and limit text on the slides to key words.

· There are three different Views. Use Normal view to edit individual slides. Use Slide Sorter view to work with multiple slides. Use Slide Show view to project the images. You can change Views from the view menu or using icons in the lower left.

· Open the Toolbars list - right click on any toolbar. Open the Task Pane and open the drawing toolbar. The task pane contains sub menus that help you perform key tasks.

Building the Slides

When PowerPoint opens you’ll see a blank slide. Add 3 additional slides. There are many methods: CTRL and M, New Slide icon, Insert menu, Copy & Paste, CTRL and D. You will want the Task Pane open.

Slide 1- Title: Romance 101 Subtitle: A Short Story

Add the title and subtitle to the text boxes.

Slide 2 - Title: Meeting

Type some pickup lines. You can use your own “lines.”

Highlight the text with the mouse. From the Format menu choose Bullets and Numbering. Click on Customize. Select a symbol of a heart. You will find it in Normal or Arial fonts under geometric shapes or box drawing.

Use the format paintbrush to copy the format of the main bullets to the sub bullets.

Slide 3 - Title: Courtship

Format the Slide Layout as Title and Content.

Insert a clip art picture of a couple. Key word: Romance

Insert three callouts, from the Drawing toolbar, AutoShapes, Callouts. Position one to the upper left, one to the upper right and the third to the right of the couple.

Add text to the callouts: “You’re wonderful”, “I love you sweetheart” and “Will you marry me?”

Slide 4 - Title: Wedding

Format the Slide Layout as Title and Two Content.

Insert Word Art saying Happily Ever After.

Move the WordArt to the bottom of the slide.

From The Tools menu, Options submenu, General Tab, set the “Link sounds with file size greater than“ number to 50,000.

Add a sound, Here Comes the Bride. You’ll find this under media clips. Search for weddings.

Set the sound to play on mouse click.

Right click on the sound icon. Choose Custom Animation.

Right click on the sound in the Custom Animation box. Choose Timing.

Change the settings to Start After previous, Delay 0.5 seconds, Repeat 2 times.

Add an animated clip art of a “wedding.” look for a picture of a couple kissing in front of a heart.

General Tasks

Add a background to the slides:

Right click on any slide.

Select Background.

From the background fill section, click in the pull down box and find fill effects.

Choose a One-color-gradient, from center.

Apply to all slides.

Add content to all slides:

Open The Slide master. You’ll find this on the View menu under Master.

Add a Heart shape to the title area. Give it a red fill color.

Close the Slide Master.

Click on any slide.

From the Insert menu, select Slide Number

In the dialog box, click next to slide number.

Click next to “update automatically” for the date. You can choose from several different date and time formats.

Type Romance 101 into the footer area

Choose Apply to All.

Create a Summary Slide:

Switch to Slide Sorter View.

Select all of the slides (CTRL and A)

Press ALT and SHIFT and S to create a Summary Slide.

Note: This feature is not offered in Office 2007 or on the Mac.

Make a duplicate of the Summary Slide (CTRL-D)

Click on one of the Summary Slides. Drag it to the end of the presentation.

Delete the first summary slide.

Note: The Summary Slide feature is not available on the Mac or in Office 2007.

Add notes:

Open the Title Slide in Normal view, add “created by” and your name as a note.

Check to see if the notes will print. File Menu, Print. Under “Print what” select “Notes pages” Click on preview.

Play the show

Press F5 or choose Slide Show from the View menu.

Experiment with different ways to move around in the presentation.

Keyboard options- listed in textbook.

Type numbers to jump around from slide to slide.

Right click on any slide. Find the list of slides. Use the list to go to a different slide.

Blank out the slides by pressing B or W. Press any key to turn the slides on.

Right click on any slide. Find the Pointer Options. Change your mouse into a pen. Scribble on a slide. Hit escape to turn the pen back into a pointer.

Hit the escape key to end the presentation. Discard the ink annotations.

Transitions:

Open the Task Pane. Select the Slide Transition menu.

Select all slides (CTRL-A) Add a transition effect.

Under Advance Slide, set the timing to 4 seconds. Apply to all slides.

Select the Wedding slide. Change the timing on the slide to 7 seconds. Click in the Slide Sorter window so the setting will apply to just that individual slide.

Add a continuous loop:

From the Slide Show Menu, Set Up Show Submenu, choose Loop until Escape.

Play the show (press the F5 key)

Custom Animations

Slide 3 - Title: Engagement

Open the Custom Animation Task Pane. Click the “You’re Wonderful” callout and add an Entrance effect of Blinds.

Add an Emphasis effect of Change Font Color

Click the “I Love sweetheart” you callout and add an entrance effect of Diamond.

Click the “Will you marry me?” callout and add an Entrance effect of Appear.

Add an Emphasis effect of Change Font Size.

Slide 5 – Title: Summary Slide

Double click on the summary slide.

Highlight all of the text. Press the centering icon. Press the bullets icon to remove the bullet points.

Add custom animation to the text, using Emphasis - Change Font Color.

Add an Action Button with a Link:

From the slideshow Menu, Select Action Buttons. Choose the first icon.

Right click on the textbox. Choose Action settings. On the Mouse Click Tab, find Hyperlink to. In the pull-down box choose URL. Insert this URL:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPPAhPkE0k

Right click on the action button and add text. Type the word: Kisses

More Practice

Create a new Slide - Title: Falling in Love

Format the Slide Layout as Content with Title.

From the drawing toolbar insert a happy face and a heart (both are under AutoShapes, Basic shapes) on the left side of the slide.

Add a red fill color to the heart.

Add 4 lines, representing arms and legs, to create a stick figure.

Insert a clipart picture of Cupid. Shrink it, if necessary and put it on the right, opposite the heart.

Insert a clipart of fireworks in the upper center of the slide.

Slide: Falling in Love Slide – Add animation effects

Insert an arrow from the drawing toolbar. Move the arrow so it covers the arrow in the cupid figure, and points towards the heart.

Right click on the arrow and choose custom animation. Add a Motion Path to the left.

Click and drag on the end of the motion path so it penetrates the heart.

Right click on Cupid and choose custom animation. For Entrance choose Disappear.

Right click on the heart and choose custom animation. For Emphasis choose Grow/Shrink.

Right click on the fireworks display and choose custom animation. For Entrance choose Appear.

Right click on the fireworks display and choose custom animation. For Emphasis choose Flash Bulb

Timing:

Click on the pull-down menu next to the first effect (The arrow) listed in the Custom Animation task pane and select Effect Options. Change the timing speed to 0.5 seconds.

Click on the pull-down menu next to the second effect listed (cupid) in the Custom Animation task pane and select Effect Options. Change the timing delay to 1 second.

Click on the pull-down menu next to the last effect listed in the Custom Animation task pane and select Effect Options. Change the effect to Hide after animation. Change the timing speed to 1 second, and repeat to 3 times.

Change the fourth and fifth items listed to Start: With Previous.