powerpoint assignment

PowerPoint 2013 Chapter 1 Creating and Editing Presentations 11/25/13

USING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2013

Independent Project 1-5 The Advising Offices in the Sierra Pacific Community College (SPCC) District work to assist students throughout the completion of their academic programs. Because SPCC has a large population of students who are retraining themselves for different types of employment, job-related information is especially important. For this project, you prepare a presentation about writing resumes. This project has been modified for use in SIMnet®.

Skills Covered in This Project  Open a presentation using an online

template.

 Add slides.

 Reuse slides from another presentation.

 Rearrange slides.

 Change theme colors.

 Change bullets.

 Adjust placeholders.

 Check spelling.

 Apply transitions.

 Print a handout.

 Save a presentation

When you are finished with this project, your presentation should contain 6 slides. If it does not, your project

will not grade properly and you may lose a significant number of points

1. Open the PP2013-IndependentProject-1-5 start file.

NOTE: If the document opens in Protected View, click the Enable Editing button in the Message

Bar at the top of the document so you can modify it.

2. The file will be renamed automatically to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to

do so by your instructor, and save it.

3. On slide 1, type the following text:

Title Resume Updates

Subtitle Your First Impression

4. After slide 1, insert two new slides. Type the following text for slides 2 and 3:

Slide 2 Title Accomplishments, Not Duties

Bulleted items Include only the most impressive details about your career

Quantify your day-to-day tasks

How many times?

What was the result?

How much money was saved?

Slide 3 Title: Proofread

Bulleted items Employers take spelling and grammar errors as signs of carelessness

Ask a trusted friend or colleague to look at your resume

5. Reuse slides from another presentation. a. Click the New Slide list arrow and select Reuse Slides.

b. On the Reuse Slides pane, click Browse; then select Browse file and locate the resources file

ResumeUpdates-01 (downloaded from the Resources link) and click Open.

Note: Download the resource file(s) needed for this project from the Resources link. Make sure

to extract the file(s) after downloading the resources zipped folder

c. On the Reuse Slides pane, click all three slides to insert them.

d. Close the Reuse Slides pane.

Step 1

Download start file

Download Resources

PowerPoint 2013 Chapter 1 Creating and Editing Presentations 11/25/13

USING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2013

6. Move the slide 3 (Proofread) thumbnail

to the end of the presentation.

7. Change theme colors.

a. Click the View tab; then the Slide

Master button.

b. Select the first Master Layout on

the left so your color changes are

applied to all slides.

c. Click the Colors button and select

the Blue II theme colors

(Figure 1-106).

d. Click the Close Master View

button.

8. On slide 2, change the bullets to

emphasize them more. a. Select the level 1 bulleted text.

b. Click the Bullets list arrow and

select Bullets and Numbering.

c. Click the Color button and select Dark Teal, Text 2.

d. Change the size to 80% of text if necessary.

e. Click the Customize button and change the font to Wingdings 2 (Figure 1-107).

f. Select the large diamond (Character code 191) and click OK to close the Symbol dialog box.

g. Click OK again to close the Bullets and Numbering

dialog box.

9. On slide 2, resize the top of the bulleted text placeholder

by dragging it down so the text does not overlap the

decorative blue title area. Repeat for all other slides.

10. Use Format Painter to change the level 1 bullets on all

other slides.

11. On slide 1, change the title and subtitle placeholders to

Left alignment; then align both placeholders on the left

(but not to the slide) (Figure 1-108).

12. Click the Spelling button and correct any spelling errors you find.

13. Apply one transition to all slides. a. Click the Transitions tab and apply the

Reveal transition.

b. Apply the Through Black from Right

effect option.

c. Click Apply To All.

PowerPoint 2013 Chapter 1 Creating and Editing Presentations 11/25/13

USING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2013

14. Set slides to print as an outline (Figure 1-109).

a. Click the File tab; then click the Print button on the

left.

b. Select the appropriate printer.

c. Change the following Settings by clicking the list

arrow for each option as necessary:

Which Slides to Print: Print All Slides

What to Print: Outline

Print Side: Print One Sided

Print Order: Collated

Orientation: Portrait

Color Range: Grayscale

d. Click the back arrow of the Backstage view to

return to the presentation.

15. Save and close the presentation (Figure 1-110).

16. Upload and save your project file.

17. Submit project for grading.

Step 3

Grade my Project

Step 2 Upload & Save