1. PowerPoint Tips for Computer Concepts by Mrs. Banovz Fall 2009

2. Table of Contents The Basics Playing a Slide Show Backgrounds Design Working with Pictures ClipArt Animations Transitions Click to go to a specific topic

3. The basics To add a new slide, click Home>New Slide You can change the layout of the slide with Home>Layout To delete a box that’s on your screen, click on the edge of the box and press Delete

4. The basics continued: NOTE: When you go to File>Open in a particular program, you will only see files from that program.

5. Playing a Slide Show To quickly start (view) a show from the beginning, press F5 To quickly start a show from a certain page, press Shift+F5 To go to a different slide while you are playing a show, right-click and select Go To Slide and select the slide to view

6. Backgrounds Be sure that your background does not distract from your presentation! To change the background of a slide, right-click and select Format>Background. You can add a solid color, a gradient, picture or texture. These have multiple options associated with them.

7. Design Another place that you can go to change your background is Design. From here you can choose a Theme, Colors, Fonts, and Effects.

8. Working with Pictures PowerPoint likes everything that is in a presentation to be saved in the same folder. This includes pictures and sounds. If you use a picture from the internet or a picture from home, be sure to save it to the same folder as your presentation.

9. Working with Pictures continued Then, in PPT you click Insert>Picture and browse for the picture.

10. Adding ClipArt To see the most pictures in your clipart search, be sure All Collections is displayed If you are looking for an animated (.gif) clipart, in the “Results should be” field, mark Movies When you insert clipart, you can just drag the image to your slide.

11. Animation To animate an image, select the image and go to Animations>Custom Animation. You have more flexibility with Custom Animation than with just the Animation option. In the pane on the right, click Add Effect and choose an Entrance, Emphasis, Exit or Motion Path.

12. Animations continued If you need to reorder the animations, you can just drag the name in the Animation pane. You can also adjust the speed and how the animation begins (on click or with previous)

13. Last slide on Animations REMEMBER! Just because PowerPoint has all of these elements does not mean they should all be used together!

14. Transitions Transitions are the graphic effects between slides. Choose a transition (entrance) for a slide in Animations>Transition to This Slide. Here you can change the sound (if any), speed, and decide if you want the transition on all slides.

15. Anything else?? If there is something else that you have a question about, let me know and I will add it to this document.