Internet and PowerPoint

Learning Objectives

  • Use internet tools to enhance PowerPoint presentations.

Rowan Retail Store #3 is using PowerPoint to present their campaign plan for the Q3 sales campaign. The campaign for this store is to use point-of-purchase displays to sell more gift cards for the company. Luke is creating the Q3 Plan PowerPoint presentation. He has settled on a presentation template and added the title slide.

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open and is displaying the template that has been selected to create a new powerpoint.
A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign.

He has now added a number of slides and is ready to enter text and more.

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the second slide of the powerpoint and a title has been entered.
A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the second slide of the powerpoint. A bing search for point of purchase gifts has been entered and is displayed in front of the powerpoint.

Luke selects two images and inserts them in the slide. He decides on the image on the right and selects a slide design with that image. He also changes the name of the slide.

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the second slide of the powerpoint and two images stand next to one another. Two green arrows show that a design idea has been entered on this slide.
A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the second slide of the powerpoint and it has been formatted in a way that shows the image has been converted into the background.

Now he searches for and adds more images that show ideas for displaying the gift cards.

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the third slide of the powerpoint

 

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the fourth slide of the powerpoint and a bing search for gift card display has been entered. The bing search is shown in front of the powerpoint.

Luke opens a browser and searches for gift card display ideas. He finds a link to a webpage and is brought to a Pinterest page. He likes the ideas and snaps a screenshot by pressing the PrtScn button on his keyboard. This copies the screen and he can now paste (Ctrl+V) the screenshot into a slide.

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the fourth slide of the powerpoint and a Pinterest search for gift card displays has been entered. The Pinterest search is shown in front of the powerpoint and there is a green arrow pointing at the entered search.

He now wants to add in the hyperlink to the webpage under the screen shot. He clicks on the Text Box button in the Home tab and creates a text box under the picture. Next, Luke toggles back to the browser window (Alt+Tab), selects the website address, and copies it with Ctrl+C.

Practice Question

 

A Microsoft Powerpoint is open for a sales campaign. It is on the fourth slide of the powerpoint and a screenshot of the pinterest search is displayed on the slide as well as the link to the page.

He pastes the hyperlinked address in the text box. He will now continue to add in text, tables, and charts associated with his point-of-purchase plan.

Practice Question