Let’s Learn
Microsoft
PowerPoint
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Click on start
All Programs
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Power
Point
Click on program to
open
Create a new presentation
Blank Presentation
Menu Bar
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Click Format
Click Slide Layout
Choose desired layout
Use if adding multiple text and objects
Remember, less is more
Too much distracts from presentation
Apply to all or to selected slides
Not all designs are appropriate
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Move mouse pointer to
Menu Bar.
2. Double click to get the
drop down menu.
3. Click on Insert
4. Insert Duplicate Slide
1. Move mouse pointer to top and double
click to add title
2. Move mouse pointer to top and double
click to add text
TOOL BAR
•Format font (Style of letters). Choose font style; size; bold, italics, or underline;
page layout; and color.
Adding Picture- From Clip Art or
Other Source
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Click on Insert
Choose pictures
Choose Clip Art
Type what you want to search for
Click on the picture you want
A menu will show
Choose insert
Place picture where you want
If the picture is in a file/folder in the computer
– Click Insert/Picture/From File
– Choose File/picture
If from the Internet
– Find picture
– Right Click copy
Go back to presentation
Right click paste
What Are Special Effects?
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Background colors
Slide designs
Slide layouts
Transitions
Sounds
Narrations
Music
Moving objects
Transitions
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Click Slide Show
Click Transition
Menu appears on right hand side
Choose
– Transition speed
– Advance slide - mouse click/automatic
– Apply to a slide or all slides
Moving Objects
• Insert
Object
• Click Slide Show
• Choose Custom Animation
• Click Add Effect
• Choose how object
•Enters
•Exits
Background Colors
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Click Format
Click Background
Under the design click arrow down
Choose more colors shows color wheel
Click on desired color
Clicking on fill effects has textures, and
other color effects
• Apply to all or selected slide
Sounds
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Click Slide Show
Slide Transition
Under Modify Transition
Click arrow down on Sound
Choose Sound
Choose if loop sound until next sound if
desired
• May add other sounds from file
Narrations
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Click Insert
Click Movies and Sounds
Click record sound
Sound is inserted after recorded
A speaker icon shows sound was added
Music
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Click Insert
Click Movies and Sounds
Click play CD audio track
Warning, CD must be in when playing the
presentation
Remember
• Text should be
– Words
– Ideas
– Phrases
• Presentations are
presented
• Do not overkill special
effects
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Save all files to outside
devices – CD Rom disc or
USB drive.
Save all sounds; clipart;
videos; and movies to the
Desktop or to CD Rom disc
or USB drive.
After saving file remove
storage device. For USB
drives, eject drive – ask for
assistance.