Presented by

Presented by

• Presented by

• Merrilee Shopland

• Media Graphics Specialist

• Professional Development & Evaluation Programs

Introduce the functions and tools of PowerPoint and have you produce:

• Introduce the functions and tools of PowerPoint and have you produce:

• One presentation using the AutoContent Wizard
• One presentation using a Design Template

A presentation graphics application

• A presentation graphics application

Presentations

• Presentations

• Slides

• Overheads

• Handouts

• Speaker's Notes

• Outlines

• Website

• Graphics

Click left button

• Click left button

• Click right button for Shortcut Menus

• Center button not used

• Double-click activates an “open” or “select” command

• “Dragging” an object repositions an object or selects several objects

Menu Bar

• Menu Bar

• Toolbars

• Status bar

• Scroll bars

• Work area

Normal View

• Normal View

• Outline View

• Slide Sorter View

• Slide Show View

Commands are grouped in Menus

• Commands are grouped in Menus

• Some commands perform actions immediately; others display a dialog box that allows you to select options

• Shortcut Menus are activated when you point to an object, click right mouse button.

• (To cancel: click outside menu box or hit ESC button - top left keyboard button.)

Four Choices

• Four Choices

• AutoContent Wizard - Quick & Easy Prompts
• Design Template - Let’s you choose from pre-designed templates
• Blank Presentation – No predefined colors or graphics
• An Existing Presentation – Once you’ve completed a PowerPoint presentation it will appear in the scroll box.

PowerPoint allows beginning users to make presentations quickly and easily using a guided approach - called Wizards. Just answer questions as they appear.

• PowerPoint allows beginning users to make presentations quickly and easily using a guided approach - called Wizards. Just answer questions as they appear.

Go up to the File Menu and Select “New”

• Go up to the File Menu and Select “New”

• Select AutoContent Wizard option

• Wizard will prompt you to

• make a title slide
• choose a presentation category
• with suggestions

• Type in your ideas over sample text in outline

• Switch to Slide View to see your slides

You can edit your text in Outline View

• You can edit your text in Outline View

• rearrange slides,
• move quickly to a particular slide,
• get an overview of the entire presentation

Change text colors, sizes in Normal View –

• Change text colors, sizes in Normal View –

• use clicking and dragging to select text blocks or sections
• click buttons on Tool Bar for selecting colors & alternate font sizes.

Change order of slide presentation and transitions in Slide Sorter View

• Change order of slide presentation and transitions in Slide Sorter View

• use clicking and dragging to select slides and drag groups to different orders
• Double-click on a slide in Slide Sorter View to immediately view it in Slide View.

Special Effects:

• Special Effects:

• Add graphics, video, or sound by going to the “Insert” menu on the Toobar
• Add Slide Transitions by right clicking on the mouse (Make sure text box is not selected).
• Alter your slide layout or design by right clicking on the mouse

Click "Slide Show" button at bottom

• Click "Slide Show" button at bottom

• Click Mouse button to advance manually (arrow buttons on keyboard also work).

• Push "ESC" button to exit to view selected

Go to the “File” Menu and click “New”

• Go to the “File” Menu and click “New”

• Choose “Design Templates” on Task Pane located on the right side of the page

• Right Click on “Slide Layout” & choose a title slide from option on the Task Pane

Click into the place holder on top of “Click to add title” and enter the title of your talk

• Click into the place holder on top of “Click to add title” and enter the title of your talk

• On the Menu bar, select Insert and click New Slide. Type what you want to say.

• Repeat this process until your presentation is finished.

Click on the outline tab

• Click on the outline tab

• Click the slide icon you want the outline text to appear after.

• On the Insert menu, click “Slides from Outline.”

• Go to the folder where you've stored the document whose text you want to use.

• Double-click the document to insert the text. ( I found .rtf format worked better than .doc)

On the Drawing toolbar, click Insert Picture From File.

• On the Drawing toolbar, click Insert Picture From File.

• Locate the folder that contains the picture that you want to insert, then click the picture file.

• Do one of the following:

• To embed the picture, click Insert.

On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the following: Either click on Sound From File or Movie From File

• On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then do one of the following: Either click on Sound From File or Movie From File

• Click Sound from File, locate the folder that contains the file, and then double-click the file you want.

On the Menu bar select “File” and select “Save” in the dialog box.

• On the Menu bar select “File” and select “Save” in the dialog box.

• Any PowerPoint presentation will have the extension of .ppt on the end of the name.

Slides

• Slides

• Use transparency to make Overheads

• Speaker Notes

• Prints one slide per page with notes

• Handouts

• These are miniature versions of the slides
• Choose how many miniature slides per page when you go to print.

• Outline

Merrilee Shopland

• Merrilee Shopland

• HBC, Bldg. A, 606.2

• 223-7885

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