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PowerPoint

is it evil?

• One respected person implies that it is

• but other voices suggest that it can be useful

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or is it good?

• We can easily find bad examples, but are there good uses for it? Or is it just how we (mis)use it?

Is PowerPoint bad? No, in fact, it is quite a useful tool.
Boring talks are bad.
Poorly structured talks are bad.
Don't blame the problem on the tool.

• Microsoft has an online help tool that is worth bookmarking

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We will view most of these topics using PowerPoint itself

Let's see if we follow our own rules

• Tour of the workspace - note the commonalities with the other Office applications

• In the Slide pane, you can work directly on individual slides.
  • Dotted borders identify placeholders where you can type text or insert pictures, charts, and other objects
    • placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.
    • object: A table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information. Objects created in one application, for example spreadsheets, and linked or embedded in another application are OLE objects.)
• The Slides tab shows a thumbnail version of each full size slide shown in the Slide pane. After you add other slides, you can click a thumbnail on the Slides tab to make the slide appear in the Slide pane. Or you can drag thumbnails to rearrange the slides in your presentation. You can also add or delete slides on the Slides tab.
• In the Notes pane, you can type notes about the current slide.

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Working Views

• you can edit text on slides by typing either in the outline tab or the slide pane and you can change the order of slides by moving slides in the outline tab or in the Slide Sorter view

•  Normal View  shows you three frames simultaneously

1. outline of entire presentation
   • you can also use the outline tab to edit text on slide formats
   • or the slides tab to see a miniature, which you can edit in the slide pane
2. individual slide
3. notes to be attached to slide

•   Slide Sorter View  shows you miniature images of all the slides in the presentation

•  Slide Show View  takes over your screen to show you a single slide in presentation format

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