Learn Office 2011 for Mac OS X

Chapter 20. Adding Life and Interest to a Presentation

In the previous two chapters, you learned how to create a presentation and how to fill it with good-looking slides that convey the message you want.

In this chapter, you'll look at how to inject life and interest to a presentation by adding graphics, movies and sounds, animations, and transitions. You'll also learn to hide slides so that they don't appear during a slide show, allowing you to keep them in reserve, and how to create custom slide shows within a presentation so that you can show only specific parts of it.

Adding Pictures to a Presentation

Many slides benefit from having pictures—graphics or photos—to illustrate or offset their text content. You can easily add a picture in these ways: ...