Instructions for Self-Running Presentation

(Prepared by speech communications faculty members in the Department of Communicative Arts & Integrative Studies.)

(Before you can begin following these instructions, you need to have created a PowerPoint slide file that includes three text slides, each with a title and two items of bulleted text. The bulleted text should be phrases, not sentences. That is all that should be on the slides. Now use this file to follow the directions below.)

1. Insert a new slide to be the title slide. Using WordArt, give your presentation a title. Make the WordArt title vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal. To the right of the WordArt, insert a downloaded image from an Internet site.

2. Using outline view, insert a new second slide, which will be the preview slide. On this slide, have no bullets, but list the titles of the next three slides. Give this slide the following characteristics:

1. The font should be size 44, any style you prefer, and it should be a crème color on a dark green background.
2. Create a yellow vertical line to the left of the font that is a 6-point thickness and extends pretty much the entire slide from top to bottom.
3. In the lower right-hand corner put a banner with your name typed in it. Give the banner a 1-poiint thick line around it. Have the banner line yellow with transparent fill and your name in crème.

3. For the third slide, do the following:
1. Insert two pictures from clip art on the right-hand side of the text.
2. Have a light crème color background with dark green font.
3. Group the two pictures.
4. Using custom animation, have the bulleted text enter together, followed by the pictures. (The title appears with the slide.)

4. For the fourth slide, do the following:
1. Have a dark textured background with light colored font.
2. The bulleted lines of text should have a colored bullet of a checkmark from the “webdings” choices.
3. To the left of the bulleted text, add a circle in a box (group them together), each with different colors. Give the circle in a box a 3-D effect.
4. Using custom animation, do this:

i. The title should appear with the slide.

ii. The bulleted text lines should enter line by line from the bottom, in reverse order.

iii. Next the circle in the box should enter and then swivel. As this graphic enters, there should be a sound.

5. For the fifth slide, do the following:
1. Give it a gradient background.
2. Using custom animation, let the text enter from the top left, one line at a time.
3. After each line has appeared, let it dim or change color when the next line appears.
6. Using outline view, insert a new slide, which will be your closing slide.
1. On this slide, type in an appropriate closing sentence for your topic. Give it an appropriate color.
2. Insert a textbox in the lower right-hand corner and enter the date.
3. Give the textbox a blue 3-point line and fill the textbox with light orange. Make sure the date is visible. The date should be in blue.
4. Give your sentence a shadow effect. Center the text horizontally on the slide.
5. In the lower left-hand corner, add an action button that is a hyperlink to a website of your choosing.
6. Keep a white background, and use no custom animation on this slide.

7. Once you have done all this to the slides, choose a transition effect that will apply to all slides. Remember that the transition needs to be automatic, as are all your custom animation entries because this is a self-running presentation.

8. Now you have two things left to do: add a music background to the entire presentation and create a looping effect so that when slide 6 finishes, the title slide will begin again.