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Unit 7: Presentations

Use Drawing Tools to Enhance Your Presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful software program for creating presentation material. You can use any combinations of words, pictures, sounds, and video to help support a speech or public presentation. In the following exercise, you will use graphics to add visual impact to a presentation designed to introduce a new line of car.

To open the data file in Step 1, click on the link. If you are not able to download the file, ask your teacher for help.

1. Start Microsoft PowerPoint, and open the data file SUV Sales (51.0K)



2. Save the file as Your Name SUV Sales.



3. In the pane on the left of your screen, click the Outline tab to display the slides in Outline View.



4. Click the second slide Major Selling Points.



5. Click the Home tab, if necessary, and click the Shapes button. Locate the Block Arrows category, and click the Right Arrow shape (see Figure 1).

6. In the slide, click under the arrow pointing to Fuel Economy. The new arrow is inserted.



7. Drag the arrow so it points at Base Price and lines up under the first arrow.



8. Make sure the new arrow is selected. Click the Drawing Tools Format tab, and click the Shape Effects button. Click 3-D Rotation, and click the Oblique Bottom Right option.



9. Click the Shape Fill button, and click a color for the arrow (see Figure 2).

10. Click the Shape Outline button, and click a color for the border.



11. Select the second arrow if necessary, and click the Shape Effects button. Click 3-D Rotation then click 3-D Rotation Options. The Format Shape dialog box displays.



12. Click 3-D Format in the left pane, and practice adjusting the Bevel, Depth, and Contour settings.



13. Close the Format Shape dialog box.



14. Save your file and continue to the next activity.