Creating Your Slides Insert elements and animations to create your individual slides.

Six Steps to Creating Slides #2. Type Text and Titles #3. Insert Elements #5. Preview Slide #6. Save Changes #4. Add Animations #1. Insert or Select a Slide Each slide involves the following six steps.

What are Slide Elements ? An element is any object on a slide. Examples are: Pictures and Photos Titles and Text Boxes Shapes and Lines Charts and Graphs Sounds and Music Video Clips and Animations

Slide Elements & Objects Elements are objects that can be inserted and animated. Pictures and Photos Shapes and Lines Charts and Graphs Sounds and Movies WordArt and Text

Music Sounds Slides Movies Photos & Graphics Charts & Graphs Add Elements with Insert Menu Hyperlinks: Hyperlinks: AutoShapes & Text

Add Elements with Insert Menu Slides Pictures Text Boxes Movies and Sounds AutoShapes WordArt, etc..

Inserting Pictures Go to … Insert Menu / Picture Find a picture in your files or Use the Clip Art Gallery

ClipArt Gallery ClipArt Gallery is a database of design objects. Insert / Pictures / Clip Art Gallery … or Insert graphics from the Microsoft Online Gallery Insert / Picture / ClipArt Gallery / Clips Online

Inserting the Text Insert your information by typing directly on the slide. Insert new Text Boxes with the Insert Menu Go to… Insert / Text Box

Adding Hyperlinks Type a URL and to insert a hyperlink Highlight text - Insert / Hyperlink / Type in the web address

Linking to Other Slides Go to Insert / Hyperlink / Place in this document to add a link to another slide in the presentation Click here to go to slide 16 Click here for next slide.

Animating Elements For a tutorial on animating elements go to… Animating Your PowerPoint Presentation Use the back button on the browser to return. Click here to continue viewing the current slide show

Presentation Viewing For a tutorial on viewing your presentation go to… Viewing Your PowerPoint Presentation Use the back button on the browser to return. Click here to continue viewing the current slide show

Preview the Active Slide To preview the slide you are working on: Slide / Custom Animation / Preview Use the slide preview tool in the outlining toolbar

Save Your Presentation  Go to …File + Save As to save your presentation as “filename.ppt”  Use Ctrl + S to save your changes after every slide.

Slide 16 inking to other slides inking to other slides Click here to go to back to -- Linking to other slides Linking to other slides

Review Tips Preview your active slide after every change. Save your slide show after every slide change. Balance Consistency with Flare Add elements that enhance your message Use consistent fonts, titles and transitions

Review Creating Slides #2. Add Text and Titles #3. Insert Objects #5. Preview Slide #6. Save Changes #4. Add Animations and Sound #1. Add or Select a Slide There are six basic steps to creating a slide.

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