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Now do the same thing with Text Fill, Text Outline and Text Effects.
For past users of Microsoft WordArt , you are probably wondering where the neat WordArt Shapes are located in all of this.
If you click Text Effects (as indicated above – on the right) and then choose Transform, you’ll see the Shapes (now called Warps) appear. As you move your cursor over the Warps, you’ll see the Warp Effect in your WordArt area.
Rotation Tool
On Page 33 you learned how to resize and move images. You probably noticed a small green circle or dot at the top of the images you placed in your slides. This is called the Rotation Tool.
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If you move your arrow cursor over this green circle you’ll notice that the arrow changes to a curved arrow. This curved arrow indicates that the Rotation Tool is “active.”
If you click and hold down the left mouse button when you see this curved arrow, and move your mouse a bit to the left or right , you’ll notice that the WordArt image rotates similar to the image below.
Any time you see the green circle on an image you can rotate it as you desire. When we finished our WordArt image looked like the image on the right.
Save your work!
Text Box
The last “tool” we’ll work with is the Text Box. We’ll add a Text Box to Slide 8. Click the Insert Tab and the move your cursor over the Text Box button in the Text Group. The Text Box button will allow you to insert text in your slides if the template you chose does not have the desired Title and Bullet boxes. To insert text , click -on the Text Box button.
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and out of the water at the bottom of the slide, or maybe a bat or bat flying around in the top portion. If you want to do this we’ll show you how. If not, skip to Page 47.
Click the down arrow in the lower right corner of the New Slide button once again.
Slide 9 will be a Blank slide. Click the Blank image in the New Slide menu screen.
First , following the procedures outlined on Pages 24-33 , we went to ClipArt on Office Online and found a cute bat. We then downloaded the bat into our Organize Clips.
Then, we copied the bat from Organize Clips and pasted it onto the blank slide template (Page 32) We made the size of the bat fairly small and then moved the bat to the lower left corner of the Slide 9 (Page 33). We clicked on the bat to “ mark it .”
The bat we chose is already an animated clip art image. To have it “fly” around Slide 9 we need to add a Motion Path from Custom Animation. To do this we clicked the Animations Tab , then clicked the down triangle to the right of Custom Ani…. When the drop down menu appeared we clicked Custom Animation… (see images and arrows on the right ).
The image below appeared.
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When we clicked Custom Animation, a Custom Animation Task Pane appeared on the right side of our screen. We saw an Add Effect Button ( 1. ). We clicked the Add Effect button ( 1.). In the menu that appeared , we clicked Motion Paths ( 2. ). In the next menu, we moved down and clicked Draw Custom Path ( 3. ). In the last menu to appear we clicked Freeform ( 4. ). After clicking Freeform , we moved our mouse into the template slide and noticed that our cursor image had changed to “cross hairs.” We moved the crosshairs over the bat in the lower left corner of the slide. We then clicked and held down the left mouse button. With the left button held down , we slowly began to move the cursor to the top of the template. We noticed that the cursor now looked like a little pencil. As long as we held down the left mouse button, the pencil traced a path around the slide. Since we were drawing the Motion Path for a bat, we drew circles around our slide.
When we finish, we need to turn off the pencil. We clicked the left mouse button
twice – quickly – and the pencil went away. As soon as we clicked twice quickly , we noticed that our bat “flew” very, very fast around the path we had drawn. The image below is what our slide looked like when we finished.
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similar to the one on the right appeared. We clicked Effect Options and the image below appeared.
Since we selected Custom Path, to create our flying bat effect, the menu screen at the right appeared when we clicked Effect Options. Notice , at the top of the menu, there are two tabs. We are “ clicked ” the Timing tab. Our bat flew very fast and we would like to slow it down. So, we chose 5 seconds (Very Slow). We also wanted our bat to wait a few seconds after we moved to Slide 9 to begin flying. So, we also chose a delay of three seconds ( see arrows to the right ). To complete this menu screen click OK.
To slow our bat down even more, we chose Effect Options again and typed in 19 (seconds). This will really slow the path. Experiment and choose a time that you like. You may also desire to have the “bat fly” when you move to Slide 9. If so, choose After Previous instead of On Click. Experiment as you like.
To insert a sound with our bat image (chirping ), we went to ClipArt on Office Online and searched for “ bat sounds ” and found a number of chirping sounds. We downloaded these as we’ve done before.
To add a sound to your image is a bit tricky. You again click Effect Options (top of Page 52) as you did before. When the menu screen appears (like the one to the left) choose the Effect tab (see top arrow ).
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Then click the down arrow to the right of Sound and move down the menu until you see Other Sound. Click Other Sound. A menu screen, similar to the one below, will appear.
Click the small down arrow to the right of Look in. When the drop down screen appears, select My Documents ( double-click twice quickly on My Documents or click -on Open ), then select My Pictures ( double-click or Open ) and then select Microsoft Clip Organizer (double-click or Open).
You should then see a menu screen similar to the one on the left. The “goofy” numbers you see are the “ names ” of the sounds you downloaded! We said this was tricky.
Click one of the sounds and then click OK. This will take you back to the menu screen at the top of this page. You will hear your sound play if your volume is set high enough. To complete your menu screen click OK.
Note : if you are unable to find, or don’t see the path, the dashed line that you drew for your image, go to the top of Page 50 and repeat the instructions again. This will cause the path to reappear and the right side of your screen to again show the Custom Animation Task Pane.
At the bottom of the Custom Animation Task Pane, on the right side of the screen, you will notice that the area looks like the image to the right. Anytime you are working with an animation you will see this image. Notice that you can Play your animation effects anytime by clicking the Play button. If you desire to see how this
You have just completed the first stage of your presentation. Go back to Slide 1. You
can do this by using the “ elevator bar ” on the left edge of your screen. If you click at the top of the elevator bar you will keep moving up until you come to your first slide. Click-on Slide
slide will “look” when you present your PowerPoint slide show , click the Slide Show.
Viewing your Slide Show
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Go to the Slide Sorter button at the bottom right area of your screen. Click on the button with four white squares.
You can now see all nine slides (as shown below ). Notice that Slide 9 (the one with the flying bat) does not show the path of the bat. This is because of the motion path – not a big deal. Lightly, click once on the first slide to highlight the slide (an orange border will surround the slide – see arrow below ). Now point in the MIDDLE of Slide 1 and click on your RIGHT mouse button.
If you accidentally quick twice on Slide 1, this will take you to the Slide View, again. If this happens, simply click on the Slide Sorter View button at the bottom of the screen, just like you did on the last page.
With Slide 1 “marked,” click the Animations Tab. The Animations Ribbon will again open.
For previous PowerPoint users, this is another “totally new” method.
Notice in - the Animations Ribbon a Group – Transition to This Slide.
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Transitions are neat, visual actions, as we move from slide to slide in our show. To get a “feel” for what Transitions do, click the More Arrow in the lower right corner of the Transition to This Slide Group.
A Transition selection screen similar to the image on the right will appear.
So, let’s get started in creating some movement (transitions) as we enhance our PowerPoint slide show. Remember that we clicked-on Slide 1 to begin this process. We have enlarged the Fades and Dissolves and Wipes sections of the Transitions image on the last page. We moved our cursor over Wipe Up and clicked on it. Immediately our Slide 1 Transitioned with a Wipe Up.
At the bottom of the Transition to This Slide Group there is a Random area. One of the choices has a Question Mark (? ). We chose this selection and then chose Apply to All Slides. So,
More Arrow
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Note: many audiences do not like a lot of “sound” when watching a PowerPoint presentation. So, you may desire to use sound “sparingly” in your presentation.
Try it out!
Go ahead and run/play your slide show again. See how you like the transitions and sounds. Adjust as you desire.
Don’t forget to save your work!
Text Effects - Build:
Building is a term indicating how each line of the text ( on a slide) will enter the screen. The lines, words, letters, pictures and charts can move in or appear from almost any direction. To Build the text on each slide, follow these directions.
Go back to Normal View. You can do this in Slide Sorter View by double clicking quickly on the first slide or by Clicking on the Normal View button on the lower right corner of the screen.
Enhancing Text
When the Slide 1 Normal View screen appears, click on the first line of text. The first Text Box will appear as below.
When you see the above Text Box, highlight the text. When you do, you will again see the Drawing Tools Tab appear. Click the Drawing Tools Tab and the Drawing Tools Ribbon will again appear – just like it did for WordArt.
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Please refer back to Pages 43 – 47 where we showed you how to use this Ribbon to
enhance your WordArt. To enhance your text you’ll do the same things you did with WordArt. So, click on the Shape Styles and WordArt Styles Groups and change your text as you desire. You can also use the Text Fill, Text Outline and Text Effects, just like you did before. Be creative and give your text some zing.
This is new in PowerPoint 2007 – using one Tab and Ribbon for both Text and WordArt!
Animating Text
This will be very similar to what we did on Page 50 with our Motion Path.
Make sure your text is still highlighted.
Click the Animations Tab again, then click the down triangle to the right of Custom Ani…. When the drop down menu appears click Custom Animation… (see images and arrows on the right ).
The following Custom Animation Task Pane will appear on the right side of your screen (very similar to the one we used for Slide 9). When this screen appears, first, click Add Effect
( 1. ) , then click Entrance
( 2. ) , and finally click More
Effects ( 3. ) (because we want
ALL of the effects).
The Add Entrance Effect menu
