1. Tuesday, 05 January 2016 PowerPoint Tips 2 Click your level below smart smarter smartest Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation.

2. Tuesday, 05 January 2016 PowerPoint Tips 2 AIM: Add text, shapes and pictures In PowerPoint you can add text to a slide by inserting a text box and typing. The drawing toolbar is similar to Word, allows you to draw lines, shapes, word art and also has a link to insert clip art and pictures. Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. smart If you can’t see this Drawing Toolbar click the View menu, Toolbars and tick Drawing Text Box. Click on this then click on the slide and type. Word Art. Overused and dated effect? Better to use a decent font and format to fit in with background. Insert Clip Art & Picture Clipart is available from microsoft and third party suppliers. Pictures can be any image files saved on your computer or network. Drawing tools. Click on icon and then click & drag on slide. Lines, arrows, rectangle, oval and auto shapes.

3. Tuesday, 05 January 2016 PowerPoint Tips 2 smarter AIM: Formatting text. Change the Font, size, colour and other attributes of text and shapes. Select your text (click on any part of the text then hold Ctrl while you type A (keyboard shortcut for select all = Ctrl+A) Now you can change the font type, size, colour. You can centre or justify, add bullet points or number. You can choose to make the text bold, italic, underline or add a shadow. All of these are on the Formatting Toolbar Normally visible but if not then: (View menu / Toolbars / Formatting) Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation.

4. Tuesday, 05 January 2016 PowerPoint Tips 2 smarter Press escape on the keyboard to close this presentation. AIM: Formatting Shapes Double clicking on the edge of a shape opens a formatting window += Try fill effects & insert a picture into a shape + =