Using PowerPoint for Office 2000

#11

is using powerpoint a prerequisite for the assignment? if not may I suggest using Impress from the OpenOffice suite? A link for your convenience

Bot · #12

Unfortunately it is. That's the program we're studying this week. Basically for the assignment he had us use a bunch of features that you don't typically use to test our proficiency with the program.

#13

Well, it's always good to see if you can do the same in OpenOffice..
Might come in handy in the future..

#14

frickin universities are supposed to be hotbeds of open source....your prof should be flogged for requiring BS MS software to do the assignment.

#15

QUOTE(emanon @ Jan 26 2007, 05:11 AM) frickin universities are supposed to be hotbeds of open source....your prof should be flogged for requiring BS MS software to do the assignment.

not when it is industry standard.

QUOTEUnfortunately it is. That's the program we're studying this week. Basically for the assignment he had us use a bunch of features that you don't typically use to test our proficiency with the program.

Knowing what features it has, or using advanced features for the sake of using them is NOT the test of one's proficiency. Powerpoint is a presentation tool. Presentations should be clear, precise, and not have many extra moving parts. That kind of dynamic but useless featuring is not nearly as effective as a good model.

For presentations, I would use a standard model outline:

Process: Impact (T-Shirt sales are 40% of our business)
Process: Support (T-Shirts are worn by 80% of Americans)
Process: Indicators (In the last 20 years, our T-shirt sales have increased by x%, and blah blah)

Illustration: Process Flowchart (Here's how we make a T-Shirt)

Process: Obstacles (bad logo design, cold weather, fading colors)
Process: Improvement (Here's how we make some of those problems go away)
Process: Roll-forward (Here's the changes we need to make)
First Steps (Here's what we do to get the ball rolling in the new direction)
Process Ownership (Here's who's going to do it)
Benchmark 1 (Here's our first sign of success)
Benchmark 2 (Here's a sign this is going to pay off cost-wise)
Benchmark 3 (Here's a sign we will grow the business)

Questions and Answers

Outline of responsibility and delegation. (We set up the next meeting, and get closer to making a decision)

Bot · #16

Does anyone know how to use the slide master feature? I have to set a piece of clip art so that it appears on each slide, and apparently I have to use the slide master to do this. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to use the slide master yet.

#17

Click view on the menu bar, then master, then slide master.

any changes you make on this slide will affect all slides in the presentation.

for intro topics like this, the help documentation built into the application is usually pretty good also. you can access it from the menu bar or by hitting the F1 key with your powerpointe app open

Bot · #18

I did use a search, and I was able to find the slide master. What I'm having trouble with is actually inserting the clip art into the slide so that it'll appear on each slide.

#19

Kramer, that's almost as stupid as the 'how to reboot' question.. lol
Just put in clip art like you normally would onto the slide master..

Unless you're talking about specific slides..

Bot · #20

Yeah... I believe I tried that, and it didn't work... :glare: