To view this in “presentation” mode, go to Slide Show  View Show (the toolbar at the top of the page) Use the “Enter” key to advance to the next slide. Use the “Esc” key to exit the presentation

PowerPoint and Word are both parts of Microsoft Office. You generally use Word for projects that you want to type and print. Your audience could be just yourself, one other person, or a whole class. You use PowerPoint for projects that you want to present to an audience – like your class. You can print a PowerPoint, but the main purpose of it is to make a presentation.

If you would like to print this presentation so that you have a hard copy when you practice, this is what you should do: You don’t really need a whole sheet of paper for each page. You can print this 2 slides per page, 3 slides, 4, 6 or 9 slides per page. Go to File  Print This window will open. On “Print what,” click the little drop-down arrow and choose “handouts.” Then on “slides per page” choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9. Then click OK.

To start, you have to find the PowerPoint icon. It should be on your desktop. If not, go to Start  All Programs  Microsoft PowerPoint. Another way to get to PowerPoint is the little toolbar at the top right-hand side of your screen. It looks like this, and has a shortcut for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on it. Since the PowerPoint icon is a pinkish color, think PowerPoint – pink. You don’t need to double click on this icon – a single click will open the program.

When you open PowerPoint, this window will open. If you’re just starting, click on “Blank Presentation.” The black dot shows that it has been selected. Then click OK.

When you click OK, this window will open. It gives you all sorts of choices of how your page will be set up. For the first slide, we will choose the first layout, the one that has been chosen for us. It has a blue box around it. Click OK.

This is the next screen you will see. The two boxes are where you can type your text. (“Click to add title” and “Click to add subtitle.” All the blank white space to the left of your slide is wasted space, in my opinion. You can get rid of it by dragging it over. See next slide.

If you position your cursor right between the gray part and the white part, you will see a little double headed arrow. Press the mouse button, hold it down, and move the mouse to the left. The line will move and the white part will become smaller. You can use the same method to get rid of the white space at the bottom of the page. This arrow won’t be this large. Stop here – you want to be able to see this little icon

Now your page will look like this.

Star Wars Once upon a time, in the land far far away, lived Luke Skywalker and his band of Jedi warriors. In the Title box, I typed Star Wars. In the Subtitle box, I typed info. Notice that after I typed my info, the boxes around the words disappeared.

Now let’s say you want to make another slide. And you don’t want it to have a title and subtitle. You just want some text. The first thing you need to do is get a new slide. There are two ways to do this – an easy way, and a very easy way. The easy way is to go to “Insert”  “New Slide.”

The easier way – do you see the little icon next to the words New Slide? It has a blue arrow pointing to it. I call it the “sparkle” icon, because it looks like a sheet of paper with a sparkle-y thing at the top left hand corner. That icon lives on your toolbar. So it will save you a step if you just click on it directly.

When you click on the New Slide icon, this layout page will pop up again. But instead of just clicking OK, we’re going to choose the layout at the bottom right. It is blank, and that’s the one I usually choose, because then I can do whatever I want and I’m not locked into a particular format.

The problem is, when you have a blank page, you can’t just start typing on it like you can in Word. You have to have a text box. On the other page we chose, there were two text boxes already on the page for you. Now you will have to make your own. To do that, you go back to the Insert. This time choose Text Box. Again, you see that there is an icon next to Text Box. It also lives on your toolbar, but it is the toolbar at the bottom of the page.

When you have chosen Text Box, your cursor will change to look like a little arrow, kind of like this. Don’t just click on the screen, hold down the mouse and drag the cursor until the box is as wide as you want it to be. At first, when you draw it, it may be a little confusing. No matter how “deep” you draw your box, it will pop back up to be very shallow. This is because…well, I don’t know why it does this. But as you type, the box will go down to fit all of your words.

Now you can practice making some slides. I’m going to make a few for some different subjects. Go to the next slide. Don’t forget to make a text box to start typing.

6 x6 To put the “sum line,” highlight the x6 and then click on the “underline” button on the toolbar at the top left of the page. See below. Click to go to the next page with the answer.

36

What is the capital of Louisiana? Use to review SS facts – click to see answer.

Baton Rouge

A person who likes to explore caves Review vocabulary

spelunker

Make corrections on this sentence: We ar on our way to schoole The words ar and schoole are underlined in red to show that they are spelled incorrectly. You can see that when you are typing. But when you are in Slide Show format, you will not see the underlines on the words, and the kids won’t have any hints as to what is wrong with the sentence.

Circle the word that is spelled correctly. finile final finel finle

Do your best to create a very simple lesson in PowerPoint to actually teach something in one of your classes. Your presentation only needs to be a few pages long. But the more you practice, the better you will get. I have a tutorial on my wiki that shows how to get a picture off of the Internet and put it into Word. The process is virtually the same to put a picture into PowerPoint. You can access it by clicking here: After you click on the link (in Slide Show format), click the Esc key so you can see your Internet page.