There is more than one way to view your presentation.

To open an existing PowerPoint presentation, first click the Open command on the Office Button.

In Slide Show view, you can still see the Slides and Outline tabs.

It is safer to select a built-in theme color, like those shown in the accompanying figure, and stick to it, or make only minor modifications.

To display the Background Styles gallery, click the Background Styles button in the Background group on the Design tab.

You can acquire sounds for use in a PowerPoint presentation by recording sound files with a microphone attached to your computer and appropriate software.

If you include transitions, it is best to vary them for each slide.

Use sound effects sparingly in your presentations.

To start PowerPoint, click the ____ button on the taskbar.

PowerPoint provides design ____, which are files that contain colors and formats for the background and the type style for titles, accents, and other text.

In a slide presentation, it is important to keep your phrases ____.

When you add a new slide, PowerPoint formats the slide using a slide ____.

You’re preparing to give a presentation to your class about the research you’ve done on information technology. You want to provide the audience with paper copies of your presentation to take with them. However, you do not want to waste paper and would like to include several slides per page. What can you do? ____

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions

Case 1

Holly is applying for a job as a clown in the circus. The circus is only hiring one clown so Holly wants her resume to really stand out from the rest of the applicants. She decides to create a five-slide presentation using PowerPoint 2007 using lots of colors and pictures instead of lengthy text.

Holly starts PowerPoint and sees ____.

A ____ contains the color, attributes, and format for the titles, bulleted lists, and background for a presentation.

____ colors, as shown in the accompanying figure, are the set of matching colors that makes up the background, title or body fonts, and other elements of a presentation.

The ____ button changes the position, size, and formatting of the slide placeholders in the current slide to the default settings.

You can apply built-in themes by clicking the ____ tab on the Ribbon to display the Themes group, and then selecting the desired theme.

You can create ____ presentations with PowerPoint.

A word or phrase that appears at the bottom of each slide is known as a ____.

Which key will start the presentation on Slide 1? ____

Which of the following items regarding presentations should be planned? ____

A region of a slide, or a location in an outline, reserved for inserting text or graphics is called a(n) ____.

PowerPoint draws a red, wavy line below a word that you type when the word ____.

Click the Save button on the ____ to open the Save As dialog box.

The ____ text layout includes placeholders for a title and a subtitle.

When a text box is ____, you can add or revise the text in it and the box appears
with dashed lines and sizing handles around the text.

Sizing handles are small ____ and squares that appear at each corner and on each side of the active box that you can drag to make a text box or other object larger or smaller on the slide.

After you create a bullet, what do you press to create the next bullet? ____

You can force text to start on a new line without inserting a new bullet by pressing the ____ keys at the same time.

Presentations can be printed in ____.