COSC 1301: Lab 10 (PowerPoint Chapter 1) – Entertainment & Fun

The Entertainment and Fun (E & F) is a successful retail store. The store sells traditional board games, role-playing games, puzzles, and models, and is renowned for hosting game nights. E & F is a place where gamers can find gaming resources, supplies, gaming news, and a good challenge. The store has been in operation for three years and has increased its revenue and profit each year. The partners are looking to expand their operation and need to prepare a presentation for an important meeting with financiers.

Assigned Reading

PowerPoint Chapter 1

Presentation Setup

You need to open the presentation that you already started, rename the file, and save it. You add your name to the title slide and then you apply a design theme.

  1. Locate the file named COSC1301_PowerPoint1_Starter.pptx, and then save it as lastname_firstinitial_PP1.pptx.
  1. Replace Your Name with your name in the title placeholder of Slide 1.
  1. Apply the Thatch design theme.

Entertainment & Fun Mission Statement

  1. Insert a new slide using the Title Only layout after Slide 1. Type the following the title placeholder:The Entertainment and Fun provides a friendly setting in which our friends and customers can purchase game equipment and resources as well as participate in a variety of challenging gaming activities.
  1. Select the text, use the Mini toolbar to change the Font size to 28 pts, and then apply Italics.
  1. Resize the placeholder, if necessary, so the entire mission statement fits on the slide.

Tables Displaying Sales Data

You create tables to show the increase in sales from last year to this year, the sales increase by category, and the sales increase by quarters.

  1. Move to Slide 5, click the Insert tab, and then click Table in the Tables group.
  1. Create a table with six columns and three rows (6x3). Type the following data in your table:

Year / Board Games / Role-Playing Games / Puzzles / Models / Events
Last Year / $75,915 / $47,404 / $31,590 / $19,200 / $25,755
This Year / $115,856 / $77,038 / $38,540 / $28,200 / $46,065
  1. Format the table text font to 16 pt. Center-align the column headings, and then right-align all numbers. Position the table on the slide so it is approximately centered.
  1. Move to Slide 6 and create a table withfive columns and three rows (5x3).
  1. Type the following data in your table and apply the same formatting to this table that you applied in step c:

Year Qtr 1Qtr 2Qtr 3Qtr 4

Last Year $37,761$51,710$52,292$58,101

This Year $61,594$64,497$67,057$112,551

  1. Check the spelling in the presentation, and review the presentation for any other errors. Fix anything you think is necessary.

Clip Art and Animation

The Entertainment and Fun uses chess board in its logo. You use chess board on the title slide to continue this identifying image.

  1. On Slide 1, open the Clip Art pane. Use chess as your search keyword and locate the image of chess board with close up pawn. Refer to the following Figureto position and resize the image.

  1. Use the same clip art of dice on the last slide of your slide show. Position the clip in the bottom-right portion of your slide, and reduce its size.
  1. On Slide 4, select the Our first year was profitable box, and then apply a Fly In entrance animation. Change the duration to 01.00.
  1. Select the Our second year was significantly better box, and then apply the Fly In entrance animation. Change the duration to 00.75, and then change the Start option to After Previous.

View and Print the Presentation

You proofread the presentation in Slide Show view and check the transitions and animations. You print a handout with 4 slides per page.

  1. Start the slide show and navigate through the presentation.
  1. Annotate the conclusion slide, The Next Steps, by underlining detailed financial proposal and circling two and ten with a red pen.
  1. Exit the presentation and keep the annotations.
  1. Print handouts in Grayscale, four slides per page, horizontal, framed.
  1. Save and close the file, and submit based on your instructor’s directions.

Sample Solution Follows

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