Office 2013 Digital Classroom

PowerPoint Lesson 5: Adding Graphics and Multimedia to Your Presentation

It’s hard to fit a thousand words on a single slide; luckily, an image or two is no problem. The right choice of visual elements brings a slide immediately to life. Using sound effects, background music, or a title and bulleted list on slides can have positive impact on how your slide presentation is received.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

• • Arranging images on and off the grid
• • Styling and formatting images to fit your theme
• • Adding sound and music to your slide show
• • Embedding YouTube videos and local media
• • Turning any image or text box into a clickable trigger

Starting up

You will work with files from the PPT05lessons folder. Make sure that you have loaded the OfficeLessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/Office2013. For more details, see “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book.

Beyond bulleted lists and bar graphs

Now we come to the final elements of a slide builder’s toolkit: graphics, sound, and video. PowerPoint handles images and video objects just as any other floating visual elements, with the standard Design and Format tools. Sound effects and music, much less common in presentations for a variety of reasons, work a little like animations or transitions: you can cue a sound up with a fixed time delay or start it with a mouse click. ...