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Enhancements

In this chapter, you will learn how to

✔ Insert pictures and clip art images.

✔ Insert diagrams.

✔ Insert charts.

✔ Draw shapes.

✔ Add transitions.

With the ready availability of professionally designed templates, presentations have

become more visually sophisticated and appealing. The words you use on your slides are

no longer enough to guarantee the success of a presentation. These days, presentations

are likely to have fewer words and more graphic elements. In fact, many successful

presenters dispense with words altogether and use their slides only to graphically reinforce

what they say when they deliver their presentations.

The general term graphics applies to several kinds of visual enhancements, including pictures,

clip art images, diagrams, charts, and shapes. All of these types of graphics are inserted

as objects on a slide and can then be sized, moved, and copied. For purposes of this chapter,

we also consider transitions from one slide to another as a type of visual enhancement.

See Also For information about formatting and otherwise modifying graphics, refer to

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Step by Step, by Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert (Microsoft Press, 2010).

In this chapter, you’ll insert pictures and clip art images. You’ll create a diagram and a

chart, and you’ll draw a simple illustration by using built-in shapes. Finally, you’ll change

the way slides move on and off the screen during a slide show.

Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy

the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete

the exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter16 practice file folder. A complete list of

practice files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.

    Contents

16 Add Simple Visual

Enhancements 447

Inserting Pictures and Clip Art Images...................................... 448

Inserting Diagrams...................................................... 454

Graphic Formats.................................................... 455

Converting Existing Bullet Points into Diagrams........................ 462

Inserting Charts......................................................... 462

Drawing Shapes......................................................... 470

Connecting Shapes................................................. 478

Adding Transitions....................................................... 479

Key Points.............................................................. 483