1.2. “Managing and Presenting Your Data”

MS PowerPoint Basics – Creating a Slide Presentation

Exercise 1: Quick overview of PowerPoint Menus, Toolbars, and Screen Layout

·  Launch PowerPoint software

Exercise 2: Choose design template and color scheme.

·  Select “Textured” design template and use the default color scheme.

Exercise 3: Create a title slide.

·  Duplicate this slide:

Exercise 4: Create a bulleted slide

·  Insert a bulleted slide Duplicate this slide:

Exercise 5: Apply Animation to Bulleted Items

·  Apply “Appear” animation to bulleted list. Each appears one by one on presenter’s command rather that appearing all at once.

Exercise 6: Inserting a Footer

·  Insert a Footer into your presentation that will appear on all slides (but not the title slide):

Charles Borrelia, Kerfuffle County Health Dept (2005).

Exercise 7: Inserting a Text Box into a Slide

·  Insert a white text box with red text: 50% reduction in Lyme Disease Cases 1999-2005

Exercise 8: Inserting a Table from MS Excel into Your Presentation

·  Insert a “Title and Table” slide.

·  Open Excel file from your diskette titled “Lyme Disease Table and Graph”. Copy the table and execute a “Paste Special” command to paste it into your PowerPoint presentation.

·  Change the background of this slide to a light color and give it a title.

·  Your slide should look similar to this:

Exercise 9: Inserting an Image into Your Presentation

·  Copy the pie graph from the same file and paste it into a blank slide.

Exercise 10: Copying a Web Page into Your Presentation

·  Go to http://www.cdc.gov and use CTRL-Print Screen and paste a copy of CDC page onto a blank PowerPoint slide. Resize the image to fit onto the slide.

Exercise 11: Insert an Autoshape into a Slide

·  Insert a red block arrow onto the above slide, pointing at “MMWR” on the left sidebar of the CDC page.

Exercise 12: Presenting Your Slide Show

·  Hit F5 to view your slide show. Page down to move forward.

Exercise 13: Creating Handouts

·  Use Print Preview to set up to print handouts with three slides per page and space for your audience to take notes.

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