Quite often, during a presentation with a report or a report, a presentation of a new program or product, it becomes necessary to visualize some information in front of the public. The most popular program for this is Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, an environment for creating presentations with various effects. Now, almost no event, such as a seminar, conference, diploma defense, is complete without graphic support created in Power Point. The development of technology has made it possible to reproduce presentations not only on a computer or TV screen, but also on interactive whiteboards and using projectors.
Power point overview
Making a presentation on a computer is not the only feature in Microsoft Power Point. With this program it is possible:
- impress the audience with an informative presentation;
- create graphic support for the target flow of people;
- scale slides by enlarging or reducing the desired areas;
- quickly switch slides, both automatically and manually;
- design a unique graphic support for the report;
- use both your own and the themes and designs developed by the program manufacturer;
- quickly and easily create the desired charts, graphs, etc.;
- add various visual and sound effects.
Video: business presentation
Components of a presentation
The presentation consists of slides, the number of which is practically unlimited. They are sequentially collected into a single file with the ".ppt" extension, which can be opened on any computer where the Microsoft Power Point program is installed.
Slides can be shown electronically or printed on paper.
On the slides you can place everything you need for the demonstration:
- text information;
- photographs, pictures, drawings, etc.;
- tables, graphs, charts;
- videos, films, clips;
- audio files;
- other graphic objects.
Slides in Power Point can be customized and modified:
- size;
- markup (location of objects on it);
- template (design and layout);
- visual and sound transition effects.
The initial editor window in the program looks like this:
The Menu bar contains all the important commands of the program, and the main and frequently used options are placed on the toolbar. This panel can be edited by adding or removing certain elements. By clicking on the "Create Slide" button, an empty template will appear on the screen, on which you have to work.
The left panel displays all the slides that make up the presentation. They can be in the form of their thumbnails, or they can be displayed in structured text, displaying headings or slide content. Also in this panel, you can move and change the position of the slides. The task pane (located on the right) will display the actions that you can use in the process of creating a show. At the bottom of the screen there is a Notes area where you can enter all comments on the created slide, which are visible only in the process of working on the presentation.
All areas on the home screen can be enlarged or reduced by placing the cursor on their end lines.
How to make your presentation step by step
There are several ways to create a presentation for an interactive whiteboard:
- develop a completely new presentation;
- from a standard or previously made template;
- from an already prepared file;
- from the autocontent wizard.
If we look in more detail, then in the new demo you need to do all the markup, design styles, fonts, etc. yourself. Reworking a finished presentation will not end up with a unique product. Choosing a template is similar to the previous method and allows you to use ready-made graphic and design developments from the creators of the program. If you use the "Auto Content" wizard, the program will ask you questions, and based on the answers, it will create the desired presentation template.
Start of creation
To start creating a slide show, you need to open the desired program.
This can be done via:
- Start;
- Programs;
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
In the open program, a working window will appear in which you must select one of the previously listed methods for creating a slide show.
Video: Presentation in Power Point 2007
We do according to the template
You can create a beautiful presentation with a large number of Power Point templates. They include ready-made, in terms of design, slides where you need to enter data. Templates take into account:
- Background color;
- Slide color schemes;
- Fonts, etc.
You can create a slide show from a template through the menu:
- File;
- Create;
- Create a presentation;
- Templates.
Select the desired template and click "Create". A slide of the selected style will appear in the work area, which can be edited.
Loading slides
To create a new slide, click on the corresponding button on the toolbar. You can also do this by right-clicking on the slide thumbnail in the window on the left, choosing the same command.
In the presentation structure area, you can copy or delete slides by selecting them and pressing the corresponding keyboard buttons. Or through the menu that opens with the right mouse button when you click on the slide.
Slides can also be swapped:
You can change the layout of the finished slide through:
- Home;
- Layout.
Text is entered in special fields on the slide. When marking a slide, a place for text is already allocated automatically, but you can also add it to other places through the "Insert-Inscription" control panel item. Enter text in the field that appears.
The size of the input field will expand as you add text. You can finish entering by clicking on any free area of the slide.
You can insert a picture or your picture using the command:
- Insert;
- Drawing.
Or by clicking on the picture in the slide layout itself:
In the window that opens, select the desired file location and the image itself, and then click the "Insert" button. If you select "Clip", you will be prompted to find the image among the standard pictures of the program.
Any field on the slide can be moved and resized.
For this you should:
- click once on the desired object:
- then move the cursor over its borders - the option to change will be available.
It is possible to add sound, video, tables, graphs, charts and autoshapes to a slide. Their buttons are in the workspace of the slide and in the "Insert" menu. There are quite a lot of options for each object, and the accessible design of Microsoft Power Point makes it possible to quickly understand them.
New design
You can change the design of the site through the menu:
- Design;
- Themes.
It has subsections:
- Colors;
- Fonts;
- Effects.
You can apply the selected theme to the entire show or to a single slide. The color scheme within a particular theme can also change. To do this, click on the corresponding column in the design area. Select the scheme and right-click on it, applying it either to the entire presentation or to the selected slide: You can make your own image or fill as a background:
- Design;
- Background styles;
- background format.
In this window, you can select the fill type:
- solid;
- Gradient (smooth transition from one color to another);
- Pattern or texture.
Text formatting is an important step in creating a slide show. A lot depends on the readability of the test.
To edit you should:
- highlight the desired piece of text;
- then use the tools on the main taskbar.
By default, each new line in the text is treated as a bulleted list. This is changed via the toolbar. Power Point also contains buttons for setting special effects, text direction, changing line spacing, and so on. When a graphic image is selected in the working area of a slide, the "Work with Pictures" tab will appear on the toolbar.
There you can change:
- Brightness;
- Contrast;
- Display style;
- Color;
- Size.
Video: Presentation in 10 minutes
Animation
Slides filled with information should be given a beautiful visualization. This is done using "Animation Effects" in the "Slide Design" task pane. From a large list of effects, you can choose any for each object on the slide. Then during the demonstration they will beautifully appear on the screen. One effect is applied to one slide, but you can click the "Apply to all slides" button and it will be on all slides of the presentation.
Adding transitions
The transition is used when changing one site to another. A new slide can appear immediately or gradually. The gradual appearance makes the presentation more beautiful and interesting.
To set up a transition, select a slide and go to:
- Animation;
- Next, you should choose the transition effect you like, the sound for it and the speed of the process. An automatic transition is also configured (then its time is set) and by mouse click. The transition can be done for each slide separately, or you can set it up for the entire presentation at once.
Completion
At the end of the presentation, you should adjust the parameters of the slide show itself in order to avoid unpleasant moments during the presentation. This is done in the "Slide Show" - "Demonstration Settings" item:
All the main display parameters are set here:
- slide management;
- slide change;
- Slide numbers.
You can also hide slides in the Slide Show menu that you don't want to show temporarily, but that you can't delete.
You can view the finished work by clicking on the "From the beginning" button:
- Save as…;
- Choose a save location;
- Write the title of the work;
- Save.
Microsoft PowerPoint- an affordable and simple program for creating presentations on a computer. A variety of visual effects and design themes will allow you to quickly create an original and unique presentation for your public speaking or school assignment.
Presentation is necessary in different areas of life, in a very different society, between different people. The presentation will help to make an advertisement of a new product, a gift with congratulations, a fairy tale for a child, show the presentation part of the thesis and much more. The main thing is to want to work on yourself, strive for the best and achieve your goals. If you don't know how presentations are created, you just need to understand how to learn how to make presentations, with what program and, in fact, try to make it. Don't be alarmed if something doesn't work at first, it's due to inexperience, although after a couple of minutes of working on the presentation, you will quickly get involved in the process and everything will definitely work out.
In the presentation, you can use photographs, pictures, tables, drawings, diagrams, etc. As a result, you will get a video, which is a presentation. Today, presentations are popular even at home, when you want to “lure” family members to your side, captivate with some idea, etc. In addition, a computer presentation is always much more interesting than simple stories or persuasion. With the help of a presentation, you can invite friends to a celebration by sending a ready-made presentation with an invitation to each of the potential guests by e-mail.
Presentation program.
Suppose that you have decided to become a part of modern society and now you are interested not only in the process of creating the video presentation itself, but first of all in which program to make the presentation. Indeed, to make a presentation, you must first find a program on which you can make the desired video presentation. There are several such programs, but, of course, there are the most popular ones. Among the most common programs:
However, in addition to these programs, there are less well-known ones where it is also possible to make video presentations:
- king soft Presentation,
- openoffice,
- LibreOffice Impress.
These programs are free, but there are those that you have to buy in addition to PowerPoint, these are:
- mediator,
- twin player,
- Macromedia Director MX,
- DemoShield.
If you already have an office suite from Microsoft on your computer, then you will get a presentation creation program for free. If there is no such package as Microsoft Office, it will need to be purchased in order to use PowerPoint. Or you can download the Windows Movie Maker program for free on the official website. They are very different from each other, but very easy to use, so even a child will figure it out.
We create a presentation.
So, it's time to learn how to make presentations on the computer. The first thing to do is decide on a program. Most Russians have the Microsoft Office suite (installed on their computer before purchase as a gift from Microsoft), so we will consider creating a presentation using PowerPoint.
- Think over your presentation, arrange it in paper form. The presentation should reflect the purpose, features in relation to the audience, content. Also think in advance how long the presentation will last;
- Launch the PowerPoint program. The first slide will immediately appear in front of you, there will be a narrow column on the left, here you can view existing slides, add new ones and delete unnecessary ones. To create a slide, in the top bar on the right, click Create Slide. You can change a specific slide layout, at least one for the entire presentation, at least a few, at least make everything the same;
- Choose the appropriate new presentation template to your liking. To do this, click "Office-Create-Templates-Empty and recent-New presentation". Here, choose the appropriate template (modern, classic, widescreen, etc.);
- Choose the perfect slides for your presentation. In order to select them, follow the "Design-Themes-Slides" scheme. It remains only to select the desired slides, and then confirm the choice by clicking on "Apply". By the way, you can change the default theme using the "Background Styles", "Colors", "Effects" functions;
- Choose the desired font: size, name, color, etc.;
- Insert the necessary photos, diagrams or graphics into the slide using the "Insert - Illustrations";
- Add music to your presentation via "Insert-Media Clips-Sound-Sound from File". Set how the music will be played "Working with sound-Sound options";
- Select the slide transition effect by "Animation - Transition to the next slide", set the same "Animation - Transition to the next slide - Transition speed";
- View the presentation and save it to the desired folder.
A computer presentation is a stream of slides with music, special effects, and animation. Often they accompany the speaker's story and display the desired image on the screen. Presentations are used to present and promote products and technologies, as well as for a deeper understanding of the material presented.
Consider the basic methods for creating presentations in Windows, implemented using different programs.
Method 1: PowerPoint
Method 2: MS Word
Method 3: Open Office Impress
is an absolutely free analogue of Microsoft Office in Russian with a convenient and intuitive interface. This office suite receives constant updates that expand its functionality. The Impress component was specifically designed for creating presentations. The product is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
- In the main menu of the program, click on "Presentation".
- Select type "Blank Presentation" and press "Further".
- In the window that opens, you can customize the style of the slide and how the presentation is displayed.
- Once you've finalized your transition and delay animations in the Presenter, click "Ready".
- At the end of all the settings, you will see the working interface of the program, which is in no way inferior to PowerPoint in terms of its set of features.
- You can save the result in the tab "File" by clicking on "Save as…" or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S.
- In the window that opens, you can select the file type (there is a PPT format), which allows you to open a presentation in PowerPoint.
Conclusion
We looked at the main ways and techniques for creating computer presentations in Windows. For lack of access to PowerPoint or any other designers, you can even use Word. Free analogues of the well-known Microsoft Office software package also perform well.
Every PC user knows that Microsoft Office has a paid license. So, in order to legally create presentations in PowerPoint, you need to purchase the Microsoft Office package.
Perhaps some other readers used ProShow Producer. But it is also paid.
The question arises: "Is it possible to create and edit presentations in free programs?".
It is possible, for example, to use presentations from the Internet or free office suites.
Free office suites
Now there are several office suites that are similar in terms of packaging to Microsoft Office. These are LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Both offices include the Impress program. This is not surprising since LibreOffice is an office suite created as a fork of OpenOffice.org.
You can work with Impress in the same way as in PowerPoint before version 2007.
Don't think that Impress doesn't support *.pptx and *.ppsx formats. The program freely understands these formats and can open *.ppsx not only for viewing, but also for editing.
Also, among the office suites, Kingsoft Office Suite is interesting. To work with presentations, the Kingsoft Presentation program is used. Understands any presentation formats and can save them to *.pdf.
You can apply basic graphics and Flash objects, sound, and more to your presentation. Only there is a small problem, not all italic fonts are displayed correctly.
If you do not want to download the entire software package for the office, then use Kingsoft Presentation Free. It is similar to Impress with OpenOffice.
These programs are generally accepted, the most convenient and pleasant to work with, and it is worth paying most of your attention to them.
digital studio
Also a free alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. A little tricky to work with. It is intended for preparation of presentation materials.
Able to work with flash animation, audio and video files. You can add pictures, text and comments to the slides. By the way, there is a simple image editor. The number of animation effects for the design of slides and their objects was a pleasant surprise. Although there are not as many of them as in Impress, there are enough of them to create a decent job.
AppleKeynote
Another alternative to paid PowerPoint. Gaining popularity with ease of use. This is not surprising, since the program came to Windows from Apple.
It has a huge number of templates and graphic elements in its arsenal. This is all despite the fact that the product is still young, and Microsoft Office 2013 can already turn the heat on.
Google Slides
To create presentations, you need a connection to the free Google Drive cloud office.
Work the same way as in Office before 2007 version. The functionality is huge. You can do everything the same as in Impress or PowerPoint 2003. Thanks to the support of scripts, you can register any animation yourself.
Thanks to access to Google Drive, collaborative work on documents is simplified and it is possible to open and finalize a presentation from any PC or Android device.
It understands *.pptx and *.ppsx formats, which means you can download a presentation in *.pptx format to your PC.
In addition, when using Google Chrome, you can work with the presentation without the Internet. To do this, you need to enable offline work with the file in the settings.
It is also a well-known option for creating presentations, many companies work with this particular program.
By the way, there is a similar software - sliderocket.
Prezi
In Prezi, the presentation is created on one canvas, and not as you are used to, that each slide is separate.
When showing such a presentation, the camera moves along this canvas. The work looks like one big map, then the objects increase, then they decrease as they move away. The presentation is saved in flash format.
The movement of the camera is configured by the user, if ready-made templates do not suit.
It took more time to master the program than Digistudio. There are many templates for future presentations. For an additional fee, web program developers provide online storage and cross-platform, the ability to create files in a proprietary format.
Haiku Deck
The Haiku Deck program has an ascetic design, in which it is possible to create a minimum of text on a slide, but there are many settings for working with charts and images.
There are not so many design templates, but they are really diverse in structure. You cannot completely change the parameters of the selected template.
Slides
Anyone who understands HTML codes Slides will be a pleasant surprise. After all, the presentations created in it are HTML-encoded, which means that you can edit the file code and change the presentation itself in any operating system. You can insert and edit mathematical formulas.
Presenting a file is easy, even from a Web browser.
Slides provides basic functionality. But you can create layers of slides and move through the slides as you want, and not strictly in order.
If you like the basic free program, you can buy the paid version.
slidedog
This Web resource only works with ready-made presentations, but these files can be created in any editor. SlideDog combines all files into one presentation of the format you need. You can supplement the file with video, sound, Web page, image, *.pdf file. While creating a single presentation, you can move slides from one presentation format to another presentation.
SlideDog also works without an Internet connection, then you need to download a paid application program.
flow board
This program is for owners of iPad devices. You can use many ready-made templates, work with image layers, add photos and videos from social networks directly.
In today's article, we will take a closer look at how to make a presentation, what problems arise during production, what you should pay attention to. Let's look at some subtleties and tricks.
In general, what is it? Personally, I would give a simple definition - this is a brief and visual presentation of information that helps the speaker to reveal the essence of his work in more detail. Now they are used not only by businessmen (as before), but also by ordinary students, schoolchildren, and in general, in many areas of our life!
As a rule, the presentation consists of several sheets on which images, diagrams, tables, and a brief description are presented.
And so, let's begin to deal with all this in detail ...
Main components
The main program for work is Microsoft PowerPoint (moreover, it is on most computers, because it comes with Word and Excel).
Presentation example.
Text
The best option is if you yourself are in the topic of the presentation and can write the text from personal experience yourself. For listeners, it will be interesting and exciting, but this option is not suitable for everyone.
You can get by with books, especially if you have a good collection on your shelf. Text from books can be scanned and recognized, and then translated into Word format. If you do not have books, or there are not enough of them, you can use electronic libraries.
In addition to books, essays can be a good option, perhaps even those that you yourself wrote and handed over earlier. You can use popular sites from the directory. If you collect several interesting essays on the desired topic, you can get an excellent presentation.
It will not be superfluous to simply search for articles on the Internet in various forums, blogs, and sites. Very often come across excellent materials.
Pictures, diagrams, graphs
Of course, the most interesting option would be your personal photos that you took in preparation for writing the presentation. But you can get by with a Yandex search. In addition, there is not always time and opportunity for this.
Graphs and diagrams can be drawn by yourself if you have any patterns, or you have calculated something using a formula. For example, for mathematical calculations, there is an interesting graph program.
If you can’t find a suitable program, you can also make a schedule manually, draw it in Excel "e, or just on a sheet of paper, and then photograph or scan it. There are many options ...
Video
Shooting a high-quality video is not an easy task, and even more expensive. One video camera is not affordable for everyone, and you also need to properly process the video. If you have such an opportunity - by all means use it. And we'll try to get by...
If the quality of the video can be neglected a little - a mobile phone will do for recording (many "middle" price categories of mobile phones have cameras installed). Some things can also be removed to them in order to show in detail some specific thing that is difficult to explain in the picture.
By the way, many popular things have already been filmed by someone and can be found on youtube (or other video hosting sites).
And another interesting option for creating a video - you can record it from the monitor screen, and add more sound, for example, your voice telling what is happening on the monitor screen.
Perhaps, if you already have all of the above and are on your hard drive, you can start making a presentation, or rather, its design.
How to make a presentation in PowerPoint
Before moving on to the technical part, I would like to dwell on the most important thing - the plan of the speech (report).
Plan
No matter how beautiful your presentation is - without your speech, it is just a collection of pictures and text. Therefore, before you start doing, decide on a plan for your presentation!
First, who will be the audience for your presentation? What are their interests, what would they like more. Sometimes success depends no longer on the completeness of the information, but on what you focus on!
Second, determine the main purpose of your presentation. What does it prove or disprove? Perhaps she talks about some methods or events, your personal experience, etc. You should not interfere with different directions in one report. Therefore, immediately decide on the concept of your speech, think over what you will say at the beginning, at the end - and, accordingly, what slides and what information you will need.
Thirdly, most speakers cannot correctly time their report. If you are given very little time, then making a huge report with video and sounds is almost pointless. Listeners won't even have time to watch it! It is much better to make a short presentation, and place the rest of the material in another article and to everyone who is interested - copy it to media.
Working with a slide
Usually, the first thing they do when starting work on a presentation is to add slides (that is, pages that will contain text and graphic information). This is easy to do: launch Power Point (by the way, the example will show version 2007), and click "home / create slide".
By the way, slides can be deleted (click on the one you need in the column on the left and press the DEL key, move, swap places with each other - with the mouse).
As we have already noticed, our slide turned out to be the simplest: a title and text under it. To be able, for example, to place the text in two columns (it is easy to compare objects in this arrangement), you can change the layout of the slide. To do this, right-click on the slide on the left in the column and select the setting: "layout/...". See picture below.
I will add a couple more slides and my presentation will consist of 4 pages (slides).
All pages of our work are still white. It would be nice to give them some design (i.e. choose the right theme). To do this, open the Design/Themes tab.
Now our presentation is not so faded...
It's time to move on to editing the text information of our presentation.
Work with text
Working with text in Power Point is simple and easy. It is enough to click in the desired block with the mouse and enter the text, or simply copy and paste it from another document.
Also, with the help of the mouse, it can be easily moved or rotated if you hold down the left mouse button on the border of the frame surrounding the text.
By the way, in Power Point, as in regular Word, all misspelled words are underlined with a red line. Therefore, pay attention to spelling - it is very unpleasant when you see blunders at a presentation!
In my example, I will add text to all pages, something like this will turn out.
Editing and inserting graphs, charts, tables
Charts and graphs are usually used to visually demonstrate the change in some indicators relative to others. For example, show the profit of this year, relative to the past.
To insert a chart, click in Power Point: "insert/charts".
To insert tables, click on: "insert/table". Please note that you can immediately select the number of rows and columns in the created table.
Working with media
It is very difficult to imagine a modern presentation without pictures. Therefore, it is highly desirable to insert them, because most people will be bored if there are no interesting pictures.
For starters, do not shrink! Try not to put a lot of pictures on one slide, it is better to make the pictures larger and add another slide. From the back rows, sometimes it is very difficult to see the small details of the images.
Adding a picture is simple: click "insert/images". Next, choose the place where you store the pictures and add the one you need.
Embedding sound and video are very similar in nature. In general, these things are not always and everywhere worth including in the presentation. Firstly, it is not always and everywhere appropriate if you have music playing in the middle of the silence of listeners trying to analyze your work. Secondly, the computer on which you will present your presentation may not have the necessary codecs or any other files.
To add music or a movie, click: "insert/movie(sound)", then specify the location on your hard drive where the file is located.
The program will warn you that when you view this slide, it will automatically start playing the video. We agree.
Overlay effects, transitions and animations
Probably, many have seen at presentations, and even in films, that beautiful transitions are made between some frames: for example, a frame is like a page of a book, turns over to the next sheet, or smoothly dissolves. The same can be done in Power Point.
To do this, select the desired slide in the column on the left. Next, under Animation, select Transition Style. There are dozens of different page changes to choose from! By the way, when you hover over each one, you will see how the page will be displayed during the demonstration.
Important! The transition only affects the one slide you have selected. If you have selected the first slide, then the launch will begin with this transition!
How to avoid mistakes
- Check your spelling. Gross spelling mistakes can completely ruin the overall impression of your work. Errors in the text are underlined with a red wavy line.
- If you used sound or films in your presentation and you are not going to present it from your laptop (computer), then copy these multimedia files along with the document! It will not be superfluous to take the codecs with which they should be played. Very often it turns out that on another computer these materials are missing and you will not be able to demonstrate your work in full light.
- follows from the second paragraph. If you plan to print the report and present it in paper form, then do not add video and music to it - it will still not be seen and heard on paper!
- A presentation is not only slides with pictures, your report is very important!
- Do not shrink - it is difficult to see small text from the back rows.
- Do not use faded colors: yellow, light gray, etc. It is better to replace them with black, dark blue, burgundy, etc. This will allow listeners to see your material more clearly.
- The last tip will probably be very useful to students. Don't put off development until the last day! According to the law of meanness - on this day everything will go awry!
In this article, in principle, we have created the most common presentation. In conclusion, I would not like to dwell on some technical points, or advice on using alternative programs. In any case, the basis is the quality of your material, the more interesting your report (add photos, videos, text to this) - the better your performance will be. Good luck!
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