The document provides guidance on creating effective PowerPoint presentations using digital content and multimedia. It discusses the basics of PowerPoint including adding slides, text, images and videos. It also covers more advanced topics like animation, slide transitions, grouping objects, special formatting for subjects like math and chemistry, and connecting a laptop to a projector. The overall document serves as a tutorial for leveraging the full capabilities of PowerPoint to develop engaging presentations.

1. NIIT University
Digital content:
Creating Powerful Powerpoint
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2. Benefits of using Digital Content
• Is attention grabbing, more engaging, and
interesting due to the use of
graphics, animations and videos.
• Better understanding by students due to
visualization.
• If PPT slides are shared with students via
moodle CMS or email, students can pay
attention to understand the concept instead
of copying notes from board.
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3. Topics
• Basics of creating Powerpoint presentations.
– Creating a new PPT, Adding slides
– Views and zoom, Adding text , Color, font, size and styles
– Bullets and numbering, Slide layout
• Adding multimedia
– Adding images and clipart, moving images to front and back.
– Adding videos
– Making diagrams and flowcharts, connecting objects, grouping objects
– Giving 3D effect to shapes
– Rotating and aligning objects
• Animation
– Animation in text and objects in slide
– Animation in slide transition
• Misc
– Adding slide number
– Copy paste slides across PPTs
– Saving in different (read-only) formats (PPS, PDF)
• Creating Content for special subjects
– Mathematics
– Electrical/electronics
– Chemistry 3

4. Basics
Play around with these for sometime and you will see that you
don’t need any training for these. Its child’s play.
• Creating a new PPT File -> New
• Adding slides Or Ctrl M
• Views and zoom
• Adding text
• Bullets and numbering
• Color, font, size and styles
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5. Slide layout
Choose the layout of a New slide by right click on the slide
then select “Layout” option
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6. Selecting inside the box to type the
text v/s select the box itself
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7. Adding multimedia
• Adding images and clipart, moving images to front
and back.
• Adding videos
• Making diagrams and flowcharts, connecting
objects, grouping objects
• Giving 3D effect to shapes
• Rotating and aligning objects
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8. Insert images
Insert any image to your slides from your harddisk
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9. Multiple images / objects and
foreground / background concept
Select one of these three images (Map, NIIT logo and NU logo), right click and
play with options send backwards, send forward and see the effect
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10. Cliparts
Insert from a large library of clipart available in Powerpoint.
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11. Adding shapes
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12. Using geometrical shapes
Typing inside the object: F2 Start
A=1
?
? Connecting objects with arrows
With red dots on objects Add 1 to
A
Click on the object and play
with the green dot on top of the
object to rotate Print A A>
No 10
What are the yellow control points Yes
? Print
?
“Bye”
End
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13. Aligning objects
Select multiple objects (press shift key and click on more objects)
Then right click and try these options to align
Start
A=1
Add 1 to
A
A>
Print A
No 10
Yes
Print
“bye”
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14. Use Shift key while drawing or resizing
Hold shift key to
Draw a circle vs ellipse
Draw a square vs rectangle
Draw horizontal/vertical vs slant line
Maintain aspect ratio white resizing objects
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15. Rotating and flipping objects
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16. Using special characters or mathematical symbols
Almost all language characters including Indian languages and mathematical symbols are
available in the font “Arial unicode MS”

αβγ
δεζ
ηθλ
μπρ
φψω
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17. Freehand drawing objects
B
Speed
A
Time 17

18. Quick Styles – 3D and shades
Start Start
A=1 A=1
Add 1 to Add 1 to
A A
A> A>
Print A Print A
No 10 No 10
Yes Yes
Print Print
“bye” “bye”
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19. Grouping
Select multiple objects, then rightclick->group to copy/move or resize them as one object
Start
A=1
Add 1 to
Start
A
A=1
A> Add 1 to
Print A A
No 10
A
Print A >
Yes No 10
Print Yes
“bye” Print
“bye”
End
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20. Inserting a logo or background image on all slides
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3
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21. Animation
• Animation in text and objects in slide
• Animation in slide transition
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22. Animation
• Select the object that you want to animate
• Click on Animation menu tab
• Select the option from the Animate drop down.
• You are done with simple animation.
• You can also use Custom animation button for
more advance animation affects.
• Animation can be timer based or controlled by
mouse/keyboard.
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23. Slide transition
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24. Misc tasks
• Adding slide number
• Copy paste slides across PPTs
• Saving in different (read-only) formats (PPS, PDF)
• PPT Template
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25. Adding slide numbers
• Insert -> Header & Footer
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26. Copy paste across PPT files
• Switch to slide-sorter view
• Select multiple slides by pressing shift
• Copy (Ctrl c) from first PPT and paste (Ctrl v)
into the other PPT
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27. Saving in read-only formats
• PPS: Powerpoint show. Animations will
work, but cannot edit.
• PDF: Save as PDF, more secure (can not be
edited) but animations will not work in PDF.
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28. PPT Template
• Use a template to make your presentations, so
that all presentations are consistent in look
and feel and you don’t have to configure
things like logo, header, footer, fonts, style etc.
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29. Creating special subject content
Maths
Chemistry
Electrical/Electronics
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30. Maths
• Insert -> equation
• Explore host of features to create mathematical
equations in your slides
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31. Chemistry
• There are several free tools to draw chemical
structures: e.g.
• http://symyx-draw.en.softonic.com/
• Copy paste the image from the tool to your
slide.
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32. Here are Some symbols to help you in + 5V
making electrical circuits. Flip them, rotate
them and connect them to make any circuit
Group and ungroup them to make more
symbols as per your need
////////
A V
V ////////
////////
R1 = 10Ω
R2
A
+
3V

33. Connecting the projector
Fn + F8
(this key combination works in Dell laptops,
other brands may have different key combination to connect your laptop to projector to
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34. Thank you
@akhlesha
akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com
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