Today, a successful presentation, which may be related both to the defense by the graduate of the final qualifying work, and to the manager’s conversation with the audience who came to meet at a particular company with business partners, is accompanied by a presentation. How to create this document on a computer will be discussed in the framework of this article.
Start creating a presentation
Before you start working on a presentation, you need to decide on the answers to the following questions:
- What is the target audience for the performance?
- What is the main goal of the presentation?
- What should be its duration and content?
- Do I need additional effects in the presentation?
Presentation Requirements
Any presentation requires slides. Usually their number is 10-15, for a more serious performance, a larger number is being prepared.
Other presentation requirements:
- minimum amount of text;
- as many slides with pictures, tables, graphs as possible.
Presentation software
In order to figure out how to create presentations on a computer, you need to find out in which applications you can create them. The main one is MS PowerPoint, although there are other similar programs - LibreOffice Impress, Kingsoft Presentation and others.
Let's start figuring out a question about how to create a presentation on a computer with Windows 7.
Slide creation
At the beginning of the work you need to answer the question: "How to create a presentation on a computer with slides?" The presentation should be colorfully designed. To do this, in the Design tab of MS PowerPoint application, a design theme is selected that will be applied to all slides. If it is necessary to use it only on some, then it can be changed after they are created. To do this, select the necessary ones by pressing Ctrl and select "Apply only to selected ..." from the context menu. In addition, you can create themes yourself using your images.
The first slide is created automatically when you create a presentation. Subsequent - on the “Main” tab, select “Create slide”.
Using patterns
You can create a presentation on your computer in Windows 7 in PowerPoint using the built-in templates. To do this, select "Create" in the "File" menu, then "New Presentation". In addition, you can use templates from the developer's site. They can be saved and used in the future to create your presentations.
Adding Text
Text is one of the essential elements of a presentation. Therefore, when asking a question: “ How to create presentations on a computer?” - you need to consider the procedure for adding text to it. It can be created in any editor intended for its input and editing. You can also type text directly in a program designed to create a presentation. In any case, regardless of whether you copy it from a text editor or enter it in PowerPoint, in this application it will accept the formatting of the application to create a presentation. In particular, automatic hyphenation in words is not intended. However, the most necessary actions with text can be performed in PowerPoint:
- create various lists;
- Align text in the center, left, or right.
- change the font;
- change the size;
- make it bold or italic, as well as underlined;
- Highlight text in a specific color.
Adding Images
They can be inserted through the tab "Insert" and clicking on the icon of the image or picture. They can also be added from an external source by copying and pasting. You can insert an image on any area of the slide.
Thus, you can create a presentation on the computer yourself. How to put text in front of the picture? This question often arises when creating a presentation. To do this, click on the added image with the mouse, select “Background” from the context menu. Then the picture will be behind the text.
Adding tables, graphs, multimedia
The table can be created directly in the application in question or copied from the Word editor. Like images, it can be inserted on an empty spot in the slide, and then stretched to the required size. In this case, in the presentation, you can change the number of columns and rows.
Charts are created by clicking on the "Charts" icon. This will open the MS Excel window. The table is filled with the necessary data, after which the chart that was selected will be built:
- line graph;
- scatter chart;
- bar chart;
- Pie chart
- its other types.
To add multimedia content, go to the “Insert” tab, there you need to click on “Select video” or “Sound”. If necessary, the last on all slides mark "Play" - "Start" - "For all slides."
Adding Animation
In order to understand how to create a slide presentation on a computer, you need to consider the possibility of adding animation to it. With it, you can insert various effects into presentations or apply them to individual images. To carry out actions on them, the following steps are taken:
- transition to the tab "Animation";
- in the left side panel, the slide to which it will be applied is selected;
- the panel clicks on the "Animation Area";
- the part of the slide that will be exposed to a certain effect is selected;
- on the panel with asterisks, which has become active, select the effect that is needed;
- in the lower left corner the duration of the effect in seconds is set.
Animations can also be created to transition between slides. This is done on the Transitions tab. Here you select the type of transition, in the "Effect Parameters" you can specify the addition of sound, the method of changing slides - at the click of a mouse or automatically after a while. By default, the effect is applied to one slide. To use it at all, you need to click on the appropriate button - "Apply to all".
You do not need to overload the presentation with effects. Any animation should have a certain semantic load. Do not create transitions too long. In most cases, adjusting your performance to a specific time is quite difficult, so it’s better to use a click-through transition.
All the above steps are applicable when solving the question: "How to create a presentation on a Windows 10 computer?" In this operating system, you can use the same program, using all its features.
Create a presentation background
Like any picture, a presentation requires a background. When choosing it, you need to consider that the audience may not see the text that is shown on the slides. Therefore, you need to select the background in accordance with the color of the text.
Adding a background is performed by calling the context menu in the place where there is no text part on the slide. “Background format” is selected in it.
You can choose one of four fill options:
- patterned - a background in the form of figures, lines or points;
- pattern or texture - the background will include standard images that are selected from those proposed or uploaded by the user;
- gradient - the background consists of several colors that can change in different directions, or specific gradient points are specified;
- solid - to create a single-color background.
Create a cover sheet
The title slide should be beautiful, attracting the attention of the audience. When creating it, you need to pay attention to the following factors:
- text size should be large;
- It is recommended not to add sound effects to this sheet;
- It’s better to choose a calm color so that you can see the text on it.
On the title page write the name of the project, artist data, goals and objectives.
Text can be added by using a WordArt object.
Finally
The article examined how to create presentations on a computer using MS PowerPoint. It is shown that they can add various images, tables, text, effects. At the same time, one needs to consider for which target audience a presentation is being created, in accordance with this, form a background, saturate it with text, apply the appropriate animation.