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Title: Introduction to PowerPoint


1
Introduction to PowerPoint
  • By Michelle Kravitz

2
What is PowerPoint?
  • A presentation software
  • Uses multimedia text, graphics, pictures,
    sounds, videos, music, etc.
  • A tool for professionally displaying and
    presenting work

3
Getting Started
  • First, click on the Button in the
    bottom-left corner
  • This will open up the menu options
  • Second, click on Programs then Microsoft
    PowerPoint
  • This will open PowerPoint and you will have a
    choice box

4
PowerPoint (continued)
  • You will be asked about your new presentation
    that youre going to create with this menu
  • Click on Blank Presentation then click on

5
PowerPoint (continued)
  • Next, a choice of several screens will come up
    for the New Slide you will be making
  • Double-click on the first screen

6
PowerPoint (continued)
  • You will now have the template for a Title
    Slide open
  • This will serve as the first slide in your
    presentation.
  • Click in the top box and type a Title
  • Click in the bottom box and type a subtitle (or
    name and date, etc.)

7
The Title Card
  • The title of your presentation should be concise
    and to the point
  • The subtitle box can contain your name, date, or
    an actual subtitle.

8
Coloring and Formatting Text
  • We dont live in a boring Black-and-White world
  • Lets add color and nice formatting to the text!

9
Coloring and Formatting Text
  • Select text you wish to format by dragging across
    the text with the mouse
  • Click on Format, then Font to make changes to
    Font Style, Size, Color

10
Moving a Text Box
  • Put arrow on the thick gray line, and a
    four-headed arrow will appear
  • Click, hold, and drag the text box to where to
    you would like it

11
Resizing a Text Box
  • Click on one of the corner handles of the box
    (and hold)
  • Using your other hand, drag the mouse either
    inside (to make smaller), or outside (to make
    bigger)

12
Adding a Background Color
  • Adding a background color to your slide will
    improve the visual quality and appeal to the
    entire presentation
  • First, open the Format Menu, and select Background

13
Background Color (cont.)
  • Click on the down-arrow then select More Colors
  • From the palette, you may pick any color you want!

14
Background color (cont.)
  • After you have selected your new color, the
    previous window will again appear.
  • Choose Apply to apply this background color to
    just this one slide
  • If you choose Apply to All, this background
    color will be applied to all of your slides!

15
Importing a picture
  • Pictures and images can also be incorporated into
    presentations (as you have seen with this
    presentation)
  • Pictures can be from sources such as Clip Art,
    the Internet, or from your personal disk
  • Clip Art
  • Internet
  • From disk

16
Importing Clip Art
  • Open the Insert menu and select Picture, then
    Clip Art

17
Clip Art (cont.)
  • First, select the category that interests you
    (single click)
  • Then, select the image within the gallery that
    you want (single click)

18
Clip Art (cont.)
  • Now, close the Clip Art dialog box and you will
    see your selected clip art on the slide
  • To move and resize the clip art, apply your
    knowledge of the methods of moving and resizing
    text boxes

19
Importing a picture from your disk
  • To personalize your presentation, it is always a
    good idea to add pictures that are generated
    yourself.
  • This makes your project unique to you!

20
Importing a picture (cont.)
  • To insert a picture from your own disk, first
    select the Insert menu, then Picture, then From
    File .

21
Importing a picture (cont.)
  • Next, you will be presented with a screen that
    asks where the picture file is located..

22
Importing a picture (cont.)
  • If your picture is on your disk, select drive A,

23
Importing a picture (cont.)
  • Select the picture that youd like to import from
    your disk, then click

24
For additional study
  • Adding a slide transition
  • Importing a video
  • Importing a sound / Recording a sound
  • Applying design templates
  • Word art
  • Inserting graphs from Excel and Word
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