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MultimediaA powerful blend of text, graphics, sound, animation, and video on your computer.
Multimedia is an effective way of communicating information.
Multimedia is used in games, business presentations, interactive tutorials, and information kiosks.
Tips To Making A Better Presentation
Choose a color scheme with no more than 4 different colors
Make sure background color and font color is contrasting (easy to read)
Limit animations and sounds Use bullet statement (not paragraphs) Check spelling and capitalization Limit pictures per slide Balance text, pictures and white space
Creating a PowerPoint Using the Design Templates
When you open PowerPoint you will see a blank slide. You may add a preset design template to make your slide presentation colorful.
1. Select the Design Ribbon2. Choose the Theme Group
Changing the Background Instead of using the design
template you may customize your background.
1. Select the Design Ribbon2. Choose the Background Group
Slide Layout
The layout of the slide is how the text and information will appear.
1. Select the Home Ribbon2. Choose the Slides Group
Adding a New Slide
Once you have finished with your first slide you will have to add additional slides to complete your presentation
1. Select the Home Ribbon2. Choose Slides Group
Adding Pictures/Clip Art
To make your presentation really exciting you can add pictures and clip art.
You may also insert pictures, that you have saved in a file
1. Select the Insert Ribbon2. Choose the Images or Illustrations
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Narration
You can narrate your presentation by recording your own voice.
1. Select the Insert Ribbon2. Choose the Media Group
Note-you will need to hook a microphone to your computer
Sound and Video To make your presentation really exciting
you can add sounds such as music or Video clips.
You may also insert movies and sounds that you have saved in a file.
1. Select the Insert Tab2. Choose the Media Clip Group
More Enhancements – Custom Animations
After you complete your presentation you can make it really exciting by adding animations to your text and graphics. Animations will create movement to your presentation and make it exciting.
1. Select the Animations Ribbon
Slide Transition Last but not least you can change
how your slides transition from slide to slide. This means do you want to have you presentation move by mouse click or to play by itself like a movie.
1. Select the Transitions Ribbon2. Choose the Transition to This Slide Group3. Go to the Timing Group and choose how
you want to advance your slide.