Control questions

1. Describe possibilities of MS Access.

2. What are the main objects in MS Access database?

3. What restrictions on names of fields, controls and objects work in MS Access?

4. What types of data can have fields in MS Access. What is their limit size?

5. What is the purpose of MS Access help system?

6. What are the expressions in MS Access?

7. What are the features in record of various operands of expressions: field name, number, text?

8. What operations with data in the table do you know?

9. What is a filter? What are the features of an extended filter?

10. What is form? Why does database use forms?

LABORATORY WORK №6

DESIGN AND CREATION OF PRESENTATION OF LECTURE MATERIAL, RESEARCH REPORTS, ETC.

6.1 The main tools for work in Power Point

6.2 Presentations in ms Office Power Point

The main tools for work in Power Point

Microsoft PowerPoint, a program that allows the user to design a presentation that consists of multiple slides. These slides may contain images, text, video clips, and related types of information. PowerPoint is useful for delivering a speech, because the user can utilize text on the screen to remind him or herself of the information to be conveyed to the audience or to summarize his/her dialogue into more manageable and "friendly" sizes, as well as to entertain or explain graphs, charts, and related data.

Creating and Editing a Presentation

The PowerPoint Window

1. Title Bar - Displays the name of the application followed by the title of the presentation

2. Formatting Toolbar - Provides quick access to commands you need for formatting

3. Outline and Slides Tab - The slides tab gives you a thumbnail view of all the slides in the presentation and allows to rearrange their order; the outline tab adds textual content to the slides in an outline format

4. Slide Pane - Area where you build the slides for your presentation

5. View Buttons - Change the way you view the presentation; the Normal view (left button) is the default, the Slide Sorter view (center button) shows you only the thumbnails and is used to sort and rearrange the presentation, and the Run view (right button) runs the presentation from the current slide

6. Drawing Toolbar - Provides all the tools you need to draw and format objects

7. Notes Pane - Adds notes for yourself for each slide in your presentation

8. Task Pane (Windows version) - Varies based on what you are currently working on; when you first start PowerPoint, you see the New Presentation task pane; other possible tasks include Slide Layout, Slide Design, and Effects

9. Menu Bar - Includes all of the PowerPoint menu choices

10. Placeholders - Designate the space that will be filled with titles, text, or other objects such as graphics or charts

11. Application Close Button (Windows Version) - Exits PowerPoint

12. Presentation Close Button (Windows version) - Closes the current presentation

Presentations in MS Office Power Point

Create a New Presentation

Using the AutoContent Wizard

1. If necessary, chose File >New to display the New Presentation pane

2. On the New Presentation pane, click on the AutoContent Wizard link

You will be walked through a series of questions about the presentation you are making, including a category for the type of information being presented and the method of delivery. The Wizard then applies a background and text as well as an outline of text you may use as a guide. This is the preferred method for creating a presentation in the least of amount of time.

Using a Design Template

1. If necessary, choose File >New to display the New Presentation pane

2. On the New Presentation pane, click on the From Design Template link

3. The Slide Design pane will display on the right side of the screen with a variety of different templates to choose from

4. Select the design of your choice from the Slide Design pane

5. Click OK to begin working with the first slide in the Normal View

Using a Blank Presentation

1. If necessary, chose File >New to display the New Presentation pane

2. On the New Presentation pane, click on the Blank Presentation link

This will open a new presentation with no template. You will provide the content, background, color scheme, text format, etc. This method gives you the most freedom, but also requires the most amount of time to complete.

Adding a new slide

Once you have opened a new presentation, the next step is to add and format the content. PowerPoint provides a selection of pre-defined slide layouts based on different types of content that you can use to quickly add content to the slides. For each of the 27 Slide Layouts provided, PowerPoint combines the four types of placeholders in different combinations; each placeholder will be replaced with the following type of content:

Placeholder:	Replaced with:
Title	A title
Subtitle	A subtitle
Text	A bulleted list
Content	+Slide Layout Placeholders

Using a Slide Layout ensures that the text and other elements you enter into the placeholders will have consistent spacing and be optimally arranged.

How to Add Slides to a Presentation

1. Click the New Slide button on the Formatting toolbar.

2. From the list of Slide Layouts, select the layout you want to apply to the new slide.

3. You may now begin adding content using the placeholders in the layout.

How to Change the Layout for any Slide

PowerPoint will try to guess what layout you want to use for new slides that are added to the presentation. If you want a different layout for the slide you can quickly change the layout for any slide.

1. Display the slide that you want to change in the Slide Pane (work area in the center of the window).

2. Choose Format > Slide Layout to display the Slide Layout task pane.

3. Click on the layout you want to apply to the slide.

4. PowerPoint will attempt to fit existing content into the new layout, but you will probably have to make additional changes.

Exercise 1

1. O n a new slide add an organisation chart using the content layout for Aardvark Advertising Inc. consisting of a CEO (Jane Peters), her assistant (Jo Whalley), three managers (Nathan Samms - Creative Director, John Blake - Sales and Miriam Solberg - IT).

2. Fill the Managers' boxes with yellow, the PA with green, and the CEO with grey.

3. Apply different font styles for the different individuals.

4. Save the presentation.

Exercise 2

1. Add a Table slide with two columns and three rows.

2. Edit the table slide to resemble the one opposite.

3. Remove the borders

4. Save the presentation.

Exercise 3

Use the Drawing tools to create the picture shown.

1. Go to the slide with the house picture which you created in the previous exercise.

2. Take a copy of the slide.

3. On the copied slide, use animation as follows:

Object	Effect	Start	Direction	Speed
Grass	Entrance = Appear	On click
Smallest house	Entrance = Box	Start after previous	Out	Very fast
Middle house	Entrance = Diamond	Start after previous	Across	Fast
Largest house Brickwork only	Entrance = Checkerboard	Start after previous	Across	Medium
Windows and Door (ctrl to select all 5)	Entrance = Box	Start after previous	In	Fast
Roof	Entrance = Wedge	Start after previous	-	Medium
Birds	Entrance = Bounce	Start after previous Start with previous Start after previous	-	Medium
Sun	Entrance = Pinwheel		-	Medium

4. Now run the slide in slide show view to have a look at these animation effects.

5. Save the presentation.

Practical exercises:

Create presentation on following themes:

1. “My future profession”

2. “My family”

3. “My university”

4. “My hobby”

5. “Information technologies”

6. “Computer devices”

7. “Holidays”

8. “Travelling”

9. “World Wildlife”

10. “Nature”

Control questions:

1. What is a computer presentation?

2. What is a slide? What does it consist of?

3. How can you create a new presentation?

4. What is the presentation template?

5. What is the design theme?

6. How can you add a new slide in the presentation?

7. How can you delete a slide?

8. How do you change the order of slides in your presentation?

9. How to change the background and color on the slide?

10. How do you add the table to the slide?

List of recommended references

1. June J. Parsons and Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 16th Edition - Comprehensive, Thomson Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc Cambridge, MA, COPYRIGHT © 2014.

2. Lorenzo Cantoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland) James A. Danowski (University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA) Communication and Technology, 576 pages.

3. Craig Van Slyke Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (6 Volumes). ISBN13: 9781599049496, 2008, Pages: 4288

4. Brynjolfsson, E. and A. Saunders (2010). Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

5. Kretschmer, T. (2012), "Information and Communication Technologies and Productivity Growth: A Survey of the Literature", OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 195, OECD Publishing.

LABORATORY WORK №7

PROCESSING NUMERICAL INFORMATION, EDIT FORMULAS, AND CREATE CHARTS IN TABULAR EDITORS.