PowerPoint 2007 ©: The Power of Presentations How can Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 help you convey your message?

Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate PowerPoint presentations help you to convey your message through visual tools such as graphics, charts, and diagrams.

Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Use Themes Promote and demote text Create diagrams, tables, and charts Use Spelling Checker and Thesaurus Track changes Lesson 2 Objectives:

Themes make it easy to create professional-looking presentations. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate A theme is a set of colors, fonts, and graphics designed to work together throughout a presentation.

PowerPoint provides placeholders (or text boxes) to make it easy for you to enter text. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate The first slide of a presentation also has a subtitle placeholder. Use the title placeholder for the slide titles.

When a placeholder or other object is selected, one or more contextual tabs will appear on the Ribbon. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate A contextual tab contains commands that can be used only with the selected object.

Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate When you insert an outline, PowerPoint automatically creates slide titles, subtitles, and bulleted lists. To import an outline from another source into a presentation, use the Insert Outline dialog box. Home  Slides  New Slide  Slides from Outline To import an outline from another source into a presentation, use the Insert Outline dialog box. Home  Slides  New Slide  Slides from Outline

An outline is effective for organizing ideas in a presentation. On the Outline pane, text for each slide is organized in levels. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate The slide title appears on the first level. Subtitles or main bullet points appear on the second level, and supporting points are on the third level.

To emphasize the importance of an item, promote it and make it a main point. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate If you decide an item should be subordinate, or below, another main point, demote it to make it a supporting point.

A table organizes your information into rows and columns. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Use tables when you want to compare information side by side, as when comparing team responsibilities on a large project.

Use Quick Styles to change the overall look of a table. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate The Quick Styles gallery on the Table Styles drop- down arrow contains a variety of choices that are based on the color scheme of the slide’s theme.

Images help make your presentation visually interesting. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate You can use PowerPoint to locate premade graphics known as Clip Art. The Clip Art task pane helps you search for the image that best fits your presentation.

Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Insert pictures from your own scanned images, digital camera, or picture CD-ROM. To insert a picture into a presentation, use the Insert Picture dialog box.

A diagram is a graphic that organizes information visually. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate PowerPoint provides many different types of SmartArt diagrams that can be easily inserted into a presentation.

SmartArt Quick Styles can be accessed in the SmartArt Tools Contextual Tab Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Apply Quick Styles to change the colors and styles of a diagram.

Like a diagram, a chart displays information in a visual way. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate When you insert a chart into PowerPoint, an Excel worksheet containing default data automatically opens. Once you replace the data with your own data it is shown in the form of a chart.

To insert a chart into a presentation, use the Insert Chart dialog box. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate

As with SmartArt diagrams and tables, you can apply Quick Styles to charts as well. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate

Adding Clip Art and pictures is not the only way you can add interest to your presentation. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate You can also use PowerPoint’s Shapes, which are pre- designed shapes such as rectangles, ovals, and stars.

WordArt allows you to turn text into artwork. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Use WordArt to make your presentation more effective.

PowerPoint contains important language tools to help you choose the correct word and spell it correctly. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate The Thesaurus contains words with similar meanings, also known as synonyms, allowing you to pick the exact word you need.

Use the Spelling Checker to make sure every word in your presentation is spelled correctly. PowerPoint automatically checks words against its built-in dictionary as you create each slide. PowerPoint automatically checks words against its built-in dictionary as you create each slide. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate

Before you deliver a presentation, have classmates or coworkers review it. Lesson 2: Create Content and Collaborate Comments are like sticky notes that appear as small boxes on the slide. To look at a presentation without the comments showing, you can hide the extra text, called markup.