PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

1. PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

2. Hyper Links and Action Buttons • Links to other slides, files and URLs • Select text or object then • [Insert Ribbon – Links - Hyperlink] • Right Click • Onscreen navigation • [Insert Ribbon – Shapes - Action Buttons] • Create your own buttons from graphics • [Insert Ribbon – Links – Action]

3. Drawing tools The really cool drawing tools are in the Shapes palette under Lines. [Home Ribbon – Drawing] or [Insert Ribbon – Illustrations] The Pencil tool The Freeform tool The Curve tool

4. Drawing tools With the “Curve” tool you click once to set points and it draws a smooth curve through those points. Double click to end the line. Double click click click click click click click The “Freeform” tool draws straight lines between mouse clicks and curved lines if you move the mouse with the button down. Click on the start point to make a closed shape. drag The “Pencil” tools allows you to scribble any line shape by drawing with the mouse button held down.

5. Resizing Shapes Each of these tools draw objects that can be resized, moved, and formatted for line and fill, and shape effects

6. Editing line points The points that are used to draw these objects can also be edited by choosing “Edit Points” from the “Drawing Tools – Format – Edit Points. Clicking on a point selects it and allows you to move it. When selected 2 handles adjust the angle of the line that goes through that point. Clicking on the line itself inserts a new point. Ctrl click a point to delete it. Point Using these tools it is possible to create very complex shapes. You might use these tools to trace a part of a image so you could highlight it with a semi-transparent fill or a bright outline. Drag the end of the blue handles to control direction and length of line at that point

7. Shape Effects

8. Picture Effects

9. Picture Effects Right click

10. Picture Effects

11. Motion Paths and Triggers The Doctor Click me The Nurse Click me The Team Click me

12. Trigger Example -Photo Thumbnails Only the red outlined images are animated in this example. Click the small image to display the large image. Click the large image to close it

13. Animation Triggers Each image thumbnail is positioned on the slide. Each large image is stacked in the middle of the screen. The selection pane is helpful with this Each image thumbnail is given an animation using itself as a trigger. Each large image entrance is animated using the thumbnail image as a trigger. The large image triggers itself for the exit.

14. Animation Triggers 1 Animate Thumbnail Animate Picture Exit 3 Animate Picture Entrance 2

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19. 1980 1990 2000

20. 2010 2020 2030

21. A little extra work

22. Keeps you ahead of the pack

23. If you don’t know where you are going …

24. Any road will do.

25. Web Video Embed From the Insert Ribbon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSPPFYxx3o