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 Themes: Themes are combinations of design elements such as color

schemes and fonts that make it easy to create attractive slides that

don’t look ridiculous. You can stray from the themes if you want, but

you should do so only if you have a better eye than the design gurus

that work for Microsoft.

 Slide Master: The Slide Master is a special type of slide that controls the

basic design and formatting options for slides in your presentation. The

Slide Master includes the position and size of basic title and text place-

holders; the background and color scheme used for the presentation;

and font settings, such as typefaces, colors, and sizes. In addition, the

Slide Master can contain graphic and text objects that you want to

appear on every slide.

You can edit the Slide Master to change the appearance of all the slides

in your presentation at once. This helps to ensure that the slides in your

presentation have a consistent appearance.

All the features described in the previous list work together to control the

appearance of your slides in much the same way that style sheets and tem-

plates control the appearance of Word documents. You can customize the

appearance of individual slides by adding any of the following elements:

 Title and body text: Most slide layouts include placeholders for title and

body text. You can type any text that you want into these placeholders.

By default, PowerPoint formats the text according to the Slide Master,

but you can easily override this formatting to use any font, size, style,

or text color that you want.

 Text boxes: You can add text anywhere on a slide by drawing a text box

and then typing text. Text boxes allow you to add text that doesn’t fit

conveniently in the title or body text placeholders.

 Shapes: You can use PowerPoint’s drawing tools to add a variety of shapes

on your slides. You can use predefined AutoShapes, such as rectangles, cir-

cles, stars, arrows, and flowchart symbols. Alternatively, you can create

your own shapes by using basic line, polygon, and freehand drawing tools.

 Illustrations: You can illustrate your slides by inserting clip art, pho-

tographs, and other graphic elements. PowerPoint also comes with a

large collection of clip art pictures you can use, and Microsoft provides

an even larger collection of clip art images online.

 Charts and diagrams: PowerPoint includes a new diagramming feature

called SmartArt that enables you to create several common types of dia-

grams, including organization charts, cycle diagrams, and others. In

addition, you can insert pie charts, line or bar charts, and many other

chart types.

 Media clips: You can add sound clips or video files to your slides.

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