MO Lesson 3.4 2024

Learners can:

• identify how to insert and format content in PowerPoint
• explain how to insert and format tables in PowerPoint

Warm Up: Each day we will begin with a question or activity to get us started!

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:20-3:05 pm

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The Plan for Today: Unit 2 Lesson: : 3.4 Create Slide Content I Goals:

• Mark asks a friend for help with his presentation.
• His friend suggests using PowerPoint for an organized, visually appealing look.
• PowerPoint can help make information clear and creative with design tools.
• Mark likes the idea but isn’t sure where to start.
• Let’s guide Mark in setting up his PowerPoint presentation.

• Mark is interning at a local news channel.
• His task is to survey natural disasters in Pennsylvania from the last decade.
• He researches tornadoes, floods, and thunderstorms, along with their damages.
• Mark has trouble finding a clear, engaging way to present the information.

Think About It...

• Titles: the names assigned to a slide or entire presentation.
• Subtitles: provide additional information about the presentation, typically found under the title, but different themes can have different placements.

Vocabulary

• Titles and subtitles help create a clear hierarchy and improve the readability of the content.

Titles and Subtitles in PowerPoint

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• Can include titles, bullet points, paragraphs of text
• To add content:

1. Add a slide with the Title and Content layout.
2. Add a title to the slide.
3. Add text to the slide.

Inserting Text in a PowerPoint Slide

How else could you insert an image?

• There are multiple slide layouts that can be used in PowerPoint.
• Follow the steps below to add a third slide formatted as a Picture with Caption.

1. Select the Picture with Caption slide.
2. Search for an image.
3. Select an image.
4. Add content to the slide.
5. Add a slide title.

Inserting Images into a PowerPoint Slide

• The formatting options available in PowerPoint are similar to Word and Excel.

• font selection
• Font color
• font size
• bold, italic, and underline
• text alignment

Formatting Text

• Tables in PowerPoint are helpful for presenting complex information in an organized way. They make it easier to understand and engage visually with the content.
• The process is similar to what you did in Word:

1. Insert tab
2. Table
3. Choose the dimensions of the table (how many rows and columns)

Inserting Tables in PowerPoint

• After you have added a table to a PowerPoint slide and entered the necessary data, it becomes essential to format the table to make it visually appealing and easy to read.
• changing font of the text in the table;
• adjusting the cell margins in the table; and
• adding borders and shading to the table.

Formatting Tables in PowerPoint

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Match the steps with the corresponding action that can be performed in Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Match the steps with the corresponding action that can be performed in Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Match the steps with the corresponding action that can be performed in Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Match the steps with the corresponding action that can be performed in Microsoft PowerPoint.

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In today's lesson, you learned:

Summary…

• insert and format content in PowerPoint;
• insert and format tables in PowerPoint; and
• format tables in PowerPoint through the use of styles and table styles.
• In an upcoming lesson, you will learn how to insert and format SmartArt, images, and media in PowerPoint.