How to Create Your Own PowerPoint Presentation A Start-Up

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How to Create Your Own PowerPoint Presentation

• A Start-Up Tutorial
• By Kitty Mackey
• Reference Librarian, Clark College
• April 12, 2004

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Start a New PowerPoint File

• File Menu ? New

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Open a Blank Presentation

• ? Blank Presentation

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Choose an AutoLayout

• good all-purpose choice

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Heres Your First Slide!
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Save Your File

• File ? Save (just like other programs)

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Add Text to Your Slide

• Just start typing in the box!
• Bullets appear when you hit return
• Keep lines short -- no paragraphs!
• Keep lines short -- no paragraphs!
• Keep lines short -- no paragraphs!
• This page is maxed out!

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Never Have a Page Like This!

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• Reference Books
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• Amnesty International Reports (Ref HV6254 .A45
  2001)
• Culturegrams (Ref GT150 .D85)
• Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls (Ref
  HV6626 .D66 2000)
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture (Ref
  DP 233.5 .E63 1999)
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues since 1945
  (Ref JC571 .L2747)
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and
  Culture (Ref. F1406 .E53 1996)
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Womens Issues
  Worldwide (Ref HQ 1154 .G74 2003)
• International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports
  (Ref GV 709. I58 2001)
• Japan, An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Ref. DS 805
  .J263 1993) dated.
• Modern China (Ref. DS 774 .H796)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
  (Ref DS35.53 .O95)
• Women and Equality in the Workplace A Reference
  Handbook (Ref HD6095 .G48 2003)
• Women and Work A Handbook (Ref HD6095 .W678)
• Women, Gender and human Rights (Ref HQ 1236 W5852
  2001)
• Women in the Third World (Ref. HQ 1870.9 .K58
  1997)
• Women and Politics Worldwide (Ref. HQ1236 .W6363)
  a bit dated

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Add Another Slide

• Insert menu
• New Slide
• Choose from AutoLayout

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Locate the Views Toolbar
Normal View
Slide Sorter View
Slide Show
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Preview Your Slides

• Click the Slide Show Icon on the Views Bar

Slide Show Icon
Press Escape to return.
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Use the Slide Sorter

• Click the Slide Sorter Icon on the Views Bar

Slide Sorter Icon
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Snapshot of Slide Sorter View
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With Slide Sorter You Can

• Look at your slides all at once
• Move slides around (click and drag)
• Delete slides
• Select slide, choose Edit ? Slide
• Add new slides
• Place the curser between adjoining slides
• Select Insert ? New Slide

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Return to Normal View

• Click the Normal View Icon on the Views Bar

Normal View Icon
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Normal View Your Workspace
Text of all your slides
Make secret notes to yourself in this area!
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Printing Handouts

• Select
• File ? Print
• But do NOT
• press OK yet

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3 Steps

• 1. Print what
• Handouts
• 2. Slides per page Select 3, 4 or 6
• 3. Click OK

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A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

• Good source for country maps
• Kiosk Journal of Geo-Politics
• To save an image
• Right-click, save to disk

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Insert a Saved Image

• Insert
• Picture
• From File

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Locate the Image

• Select the location
• Floppy (A)
• 2. Select the Image
• 3. Click Insert

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And Your Image Appears!

• You can
• Move the Image
• Resize the Image
• Copy the image
• You must
• Credit the source!
• (image http//www.bay.k12.fl.us/pdk/kiosk/)

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(pssssst)

• You can also use cut and paste to place an image
  on the page.
• (The image at left is from PowerPoints clip art.)

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Helpful Hints

• Save your file frequently!
• Keep your background simple.
• Explore PowerPoints features, but dont let
  bells and whistles replace content.
• Write tight.

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Finally Not just for Presentations

• Think of PowerPoint slides as index cards.
• Put notes on slides
• Organize notes
• Keep track of resources
• Plan projects