How to Make Presentations Come Alive

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Beginning Power Point

• How to Make Presentations Come Alive !

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Training Goals

• Learn what a presentation is
• Learn the ingredients of a presentation
• Learn the parts of the Power Point Window
• Learn how to apply a design to your presentation
• Learn how to apply and format text
• Learn how to add graphics
• Learn how to use the different views
• Learn basic slide transition
• Learn how to print Power Point
• Learn how to save your Power Point Presentation

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A Presentation Has . . .
A Beginning
A Middle
And an End
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Ingredients of Presentations

• We will cover how to create slides, put in text,
  and insert graphics, both clip art and pictures
  (from the Internet), and cover basic animation in
  Beginning Power Point.

• Slides
• Text
• Graphics
• Animation
• Sounds
• Video

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Parts of the Power Point Window
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The Different Types of Layouts
To Insert a new Slide, go to Insert and select
New Slide
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How to Insert Text

• Power Point is just like any Microsoft
  Application (Word) You can type in text, change
  the font size, the font, and make it bold,
  italics, or underlined.
• You can copy text from other places and then
  paste it into Power Point.
• You can also insert a text box somewhere in the
  slide.

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To Insert Graphics

• For clip art
• Go to insert, picture, clip art, and then select
  the clip art you want
• Click on the clip art and insert it

• For pictures
• Go to Insert, Pictures, From File
• Open up the folder where the picture is and
  insert the picture

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To View Your Presentation

• Go to the View Menu
• You have the choices of
• Normal
• Slide Sorter- you can move the slides around in
  this view
• Slide Show- use this to view your show

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To View Your Presentation
Or you can use the buttons on the bottom left of
the screen, the buttons from left to right
are Normal Outline Slide View Slide Sorter Slide
Show- you can stop viewing at any time by hitting
the Escape button
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Slide Transition

• To Animate
• Select Slide Transition for timing purposes and
  automatic movement from one slide to the next

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Slide Transition

• In Slide Transition you can choose
• Transition effect
• How to advance
• Choice of sound

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Other Options

• If you want to change your slide layout, go to
  Format,and select slide layout

• If you want to apply a Design Template for the
  background, go to Format and Apply Design Template

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How to print Power Point

• Go to File
• Select Print
• You have a choice of what you want to print.
• Slides, Handouts, Notes Pages, Outline View
• Handouts work best at 3 per page

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To Save Your Presentation

• Go to file
• Save as
• Select where you want to save it
• Give your presentation a name
• Save

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Thank You for Attending

• Power Point, a product of Microsoft
• Gates thanks you for using it, he needs the money!

The End