Creating a Presentation From Outline View: Working with an outline is the best way to organize and develop the content of your presentation.

Activity 1 - Creating a Presentation from Outline View 

1.Open PowerPoint to a Blank Presentation, selecting a Blank layout.

2.From the View – Tools menu, click the Outlining toolbar. Click the Outline tab and then click beside the icon of your first slide. The blinking cursor appears.

3.Type the title of your slide (Introduction to PowerPoint) and press the “Enter” key

4.Click on the greenish-blue, right pointing arrow, type your first bullet (Presentations), and press “Enter”.

5.Type your second bullet (Animations) and press “Enter”.

6.Type your third bullet (Slideshows) and press “Enter”.

7.Click on the greenish-blue, left pointing arrow to create your second slide.

8. Create three more slides, experimenting with the arrows and formatting buttons to create slides without titles and without bullets.  Try selecting text and changing fonts, sizes and colors.

Your Outline should look like the one in the screenshot below.

You can rearrange points within a slide, move entire slides from one position to another, and edit titles and body text. For example, to rearrange slides or bullet items, just select the slide icon or bullet for the text you want to move, and then drag it to its new location.

When you select text in the outline pane, buttons for working with outlines become available on the Standard and Formatting toolbars. You can use these buttons to quickly organize your presentation       —     for example, click Promote or Demote to increase or decrease the indent level of a bullet. You can also display all the buttons for working with outlines on a single toolbar. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Outlining.

Formatting Your Presentation: You may format your presentation in any of the ways you learned in the last module. The following activity reviews design templates and background formatting.

Activity 2 - Formatting Your Presentation

1.Go to Format – Slide Design, and preview the Design Templates

2.Select one of the templates and click “Apply”.

3.Go to Color Schemes on the Task Pane and look at the color scheme options for the design template you chose.

4.Select one of the options and click either “Apply” or “Apply to All”.

5.Go to Format - Background and click on the arrow beside the colored box to view background color options

6.Click on “More Colors” and examine the “Standard” and “Custom” color palettes

7.Go to Format - Background and click once more on the arrow beside the colored box.

8.Click on “Fill Effects” and check out each of the tabs in the dialogue box

9.In the Format - Background window, notice the check box option that allows you to omit background graphics from your slide.

You have now completed this module. Take a few minutes to review and practice what you have learned.