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� PowerPoint 2010 provides several templates that contain slide layouts designed specifically forcreating electronic photo albums.

To complete this presentation, you will need the following files:� New, blank PowerPoint presentation� p08_Vacation1� p08_Vacation2� p08_Vacation3� p08_Vacation4� p08_Vacation5

You will save your presentation as:� Lastname_Firstname_p08_Vacation

1. Start PowerPoint. Click the File tab. Click New. Under Available Templates and Themes,click Sample Templates. In the Available Templates and Themes gallery, click the UrbanPhoto Album thumbnail, and then click the Create button. Compare your screen withFigure 1.

A new presentation is created from the Urban Photo Album template.

PowerPointCHAPTER 8

More Skills 11 Create Photo Albums from Templates

Slides fromUrban Photo

Album template

Figure 1

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2. Click the File tab, and then click Save As. In the displayed Save As dialog box,navigate to your PowerPoint Chapter 8 folder, and Save the presentation asLastname_Firstname_p08_Vacation

3. On Slide 1, replace the text Urban Photo Album with Aspen Falls Vacation

4. View all of the slides, and read the content on each slide to learn about the picture effectsavailable. In the pane that contains the Slides and Outline tabs, select the Slide 2 thumbnail,and then press and hold the V key and click the Slide 7 thumbnail. Release the V key,and with Slides 2 through 7 selected, right-click Slide 7, and then click Delete Slide.

Slide 2 is now the Snapshots slide.

5. If necessary, display Slide 2. Click the left picture of a gear, and then on the Format tab, inthe Adjust group, click the Change Picture button. From your student files, insertp08_Vacation1.

6. In the photo placeholder, select the text Mechanical Flower, and type Wine Country ToursSelect the text New layouts bring creativity to your presentation, and type Art and SocialScene Compare your screen with Figure 2.

Image andtext added

Figure 2

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Images andtext added

Figure 3

Image andtext added

Figure 4

7. On Slide 3, repeat the technique just practiced to replace the bridge picture withp08_Vacation2. Change the fence picture in the upper right to p08_Vacation3.Change the picture in the lower right to p08_Vacation4.

8. At the top of Slide 3, select the text Slide Film, and type Open-Air Farmers’ MarketCompare your screen with Figure 3.

9. Display Slide 4. Replace the text Photo Corners with Catch of the Day

10. Using the techniques previously practiced, replace the picture on the slide withp08_Vacation5. Compare your screen with Figure 4.

11. In the pane that contains the Slides and Outline tabs, select the Slide 5 thumbnail, press andhold the V key, and then click the Slide 8 thumbnail. Release the V key, and with Slides5 through 8 selected, right-click the Slide 8 thumbnail, and then click Delete Slide.

12. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the Layout button to observe all other prebuiltlayouts available with this template. Click the slide to exit the Layout gallery without inserting a layout.

13. Add the file name in the footer of the Notes and Handouts pages.

14. Press 5 to view the slide show from the beginning. Click to advance through the presentation, observing the transitions that were prebuilt into the presentation.

15. Save your presentation, and submit it as directed by your instructor.

� You have completed More Skills 11

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