Review Sheet: Chapters 19-20, Test Date: March 19/20, 2008
Chapter 19 - PowerPoint Essentials
- What can presentations include? p. 389 - text, drawing objects, clip art, pictures, tables, charts, sound, and video clips.
- What are the document files called in PPt? p. 389 - presentations
- When your presentation includes more than one slide, what appears that you can use to scroll through the presentation? p. 390 - scroll bars
- Can you save a presentation so it can be viewed using a Web browser? p. 390 - yes
- What pane should you use to organize the content of your presentation? p. 391 - the Outline pane
- Which pane allows you to see the slide as it will appear in your presentation? p. 391 - the Slide pane
- What keyboard shortcut lets you move to the first slide in a presentation? p. 392 - Ctrl + Home
- What do the buttons at the lower left of the PPt window let you do? p. 393 - change the view (normal, slide sorter, and slide show views)
- Which view gives you an overall picture of your presentation by displaying your slides as thumbnails? p. 393 - Slide Sorter view
- Which view makes the current slide fill the whole screen? p. 393 - Slide Show view
- Which view do you use when you present the show to your audience? p. 393 - Slide Show view
- What provides a preformatted slide design with colors, styles, and layouts? p. 394 - design templates
- What provides content that was previously organized and formatted on slides in the New Presentation task pane? p. 394 - General Templates (you can modify the content to customize the presentation for your needs)
- Can you create a new presentation based on an existing presentation? p. 394 - yes
- What happens if you use many different layouts and formats in your presentation? p. 394-5 - if it's too "busy" the formatting can detract from your content
- Which pane provides a place to write speaker notes? p. 395 - Notes pane
- What specifies a color scheme, text format, backgrounds, bullet styles, and graphics for all the slides in the presentation? p. 395 - a slide design
- What does a design template do for a presentation? p. 396 - It provides a specific look and feel for each slide
- What can you do if you like a slide design but you don't like the colors used in the design? p. 396 - you can change the color scheme of the design
- Do slide designs have just one standard color scheme? p. 396 - no, PPt offers several color schemes for each slide design
- Which view allows you to add new slides, copy slides, or delete slides? p. 398 - Normal or Slide Sorter views
- What provides placement guides for adding text, pictures, tables, or charts? p. 398 - placeholders (that don't print or display in the actual presentation)
- What enables you to copy selected slides one at a time or all of the slides at once from one presentation to another? p. 400 - Slide Finder
- What do you do to see several icons in the lower-left corner of the slide, such as a left-pointing arrow, a pen icon, a menu icon, and a right-pointing arrow? p. 402 - move the mouse pointer in a screen in Slide Show view
- How do you advance to the next slide in a presentation? p. 402 - Click the left mouse button, use the arrow keys or Page Up and Page Down keys, or press the space bar
Chapter 20 - Enhancing Presentations with Multimedia Effects
- What can you do with placeholders? p. 409 - resize them, move them to another position in the slide, and add formatting to the text
- What feature is used for callout balloons and block arrows to emphasize text? p. 410 - AutoShapes
- When you add or edit text, how do you update the contents in the Outline pane? p. 410 - it's automatic
- How is font size measured? p. 411 - in points
- Which toolbar is used to quickly change font style and point size? p. 411 - Formatting
- How can you make several font changes at once? p. 411 - Use the Font dialog box
- How can you quickly increase the font size to the next increment? p. 412 - select the text and press Ctrl + ] - the closing square bracket
(continue pressing the keys for additional increases). Use the opening square bracket to decrease the font size to the previous increment.
- What do pictures do for a presentation? p. 413 - can help your audience remember your message
- What does the Clip Organizer enable you to insert? p. 413 - a wide variety of pictures, photographs, sounds, and video clips
- How else can you insert a picture? p. 413 - from a scanned photo or from a file
- How can you reverse one or more of your recent actions in PowerPoint? p. 413 - the Undo command
- How do you resize a picture proportionally? p. 414 - drag a corner sizing handle
- How can you make a global change or addition that will be reflected on all the slides in your presentation (such as to the font styles and background design or footers)? p. 417 - the Slide master (go to the View menu, point to Master)
- What determines the changes in the display that occur as you move from one slide to another? p. 419 - Slide transitions (they can be applied to a single slide or to all the slides)
- What can be added to transitions? p. 419 - sound effects
- What do you add to make text or objects leave the slide? p. 420 - an exit effect
- What options are available for printing your presentation? p. 422 - individual slides (the default), handouts, speaker notes, an outline of the presentation, and more