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Power. Point 1 - Basic Ideas
Power. Point: More than you think ► Where to start? § Keep your project in mind § What is it you are trying to accomplish, and more importantly, who is your audience? § Sketch out your idea on paper, or sketch it out slide-by-slide in Power. Point
Important Issues ► Font issues § Similar to your experiences in Pagemaker and Photoshop; you may not have the typefaces at home that you’re using in the lab ► File § § sizes Power. Point by nature tends to produce very large files Use compressed images and sound Be conservative with animation Do not embed sound into the Power. Point itself; use techniques that allow Power. Point to link to your sound files externally
Standard practices ► Tricks to keep you from performing re-work § Templates § The slide master (vs. copying and pasting prior slides) § Importing objects into the slide master and title master
Standard practices ► Importing objects § Good practices ►Do not import large bitmaps ►Be careful not to distort your objects once they are in Power. Point; remember to use the shift key when scaling ►Power. Point does not use layers per se, but you can move objects to the front and back of other objects ►Remember CRAP, especially when adding pictures to text ►KISS
Power. Point Tools ► Drawing (you’ve seen this already) ► Animation (use sparingly) ► Remember: § Power. Point is not a design tool § Use Photoshop to design elements, then import them into Power. Point § Using. png for transparent images
Let’s Look at Some Examples
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