Now that you've learned how to manipulate slides and put them together into slide shows, we'll show you how to design and format all the available elements of a presentation.

In This Chapter:

Slide Layout

One of the points of learning PowerPoint is that it is a way to break the monotony in your presentation. However, without creativity, your visuals might just fall in the same category. Here is a way where you can work around different slide layouts within

Adding pictures

In the fourth Slide, let us try to insert some images.

Adding a Chart

You can add custom generated charts to your slides as well.

Adding a Table

Powerpoint lets you create custom tables in your slides.

Grouping Objects in PowerPoint

Grouping objects allows you to take different elements e.g., graphics, charts etc. (but NOT text) and attach them to each other. This way you can work with multiple objects as if they were one. Grouping does not affect the physical placement of the object

Slide Design

To give a dramatic effect to your presentations, you can also add a Slide Design to your slides. Slide Design refers to the various design elements of a slide, such as the slide background, font, font size, font style, and other objects.

Other Appearance Settings

Here are some more things you can do to change the appearance of your slides.

Color Scheme

We now go to enhancing your presentation, using different colors for title text and body text. Here, you could customize the background, and use fills and shadows As well as manipulate the colors used for hyperlinks, fills, and accents such as bullets.

Slide Master

Using a different style to lead off new sections in the presentation using art, changing font style, and background color is easy to achive in PowerPoint.

Headers and Footers

At this point, let us look at certain details like the workshop name, date etc. to appear on each slide. Particularly, how do we use the Headers and Footers features on the slide master.

Adding Sounds

What makes PowerPoint really great as a presentation tool is that you can add sound to your presentation. Let us explore this feature as we create the the sixth Slide.

Viewing Your Slides in Different Modes

PowerPoint also lets you look at your slides in different modes.

Hyperlinks and Action buttons

Now that the slides are ready, you are finally able to move between the “Principles of Personal Leadership” and “Principles of Personal Management”. Here, you can use action buttons and hyperlinks to link the slide to another slide, a custom show, a Web p

Adding Special Effects

Even if you have created the world’s best-looking presentation, you have to know how to display it attractively. You can do this by adding special effects like add multimedia, animations, slide transitions and text preset animations to your slides.

Preparing for the Show

After you have created your slides and added special effects to them, you have to plan how you will deliver the presentation. Then you will need to rehearse. When a person delivers a presentation with PowerPoint, he or she usually does the following.