1. How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation

2. Starting PowerPoint In the start menu On other Windows XP PCs
Double Click the PowerPoint Icon on the desktop
On other Windows XP PCs
Start 
All Programs 
Microsoft Office 
Microsoft PowerPoint

3. The First Slide
When PowerPoint starts, you will see a window like this one.

4. Typing in Text
1) Move your mouse to the rectangle that says Click to add title, click once, then start typing
2) Move your mouse to rectangle that says Click to add subtitle, click once, then start typing

5. Adding a New Slide
Move your mouse to right end of the toolbar at the top of your PowerPoint Window and click New Slide, once … a new slide will appear

6. Inserting Pictures From Microsoft Clipart -1
1) Move your mouse to the Insert Menu and click once to activate the menu
2) Choose Picture
3) Choose Clip Art

7. Inserting Pictures – From Microsoft Clipart - 2
The Clip Art Tool Will Show up on the right edge of the window.
Type in a keyword for the picture you want in the “Search for” box
After the search is done, click on picture you want to add
The picture will be placed on your slide

8. Inserting Other Pictures
Pictures must be files saved on a local disk
C: hard drive (My Documents, My Pictures)
A: floppy
D: CD-ROM
F: memory stick

9. Inserting Pictures From File -1
1) Move your mouse to the Insert Menu and click once to activate the menu
2) Choose Picture
3) Choose From File

10. Inserting Pictures From File -2
1) When the Insert Picture dialog box opens
Choose the location of your file, for example, the floppy, by clicking once on the down arrow at the end of the “Look in” rectangle
Click on the picture you want to add and it will appear on your slide

11. Changing Picture Size & Location
To adjust the size of the picture
Click on its lower right corner until the resize double arrow appears
Don’t lift your finger from the mouse button and drag the mouse to resize the picture (“in” to make it smaller; “out” to make it bigger”)
To move the picture on the slide
Click on it until the four-sided arrow appears
Don’t lift your finger from the mouse button and drag the mouse –and the picture– to its new location on the slide

12. Changing Slide Design
You can change the background and colors on all your slides
1) Move your mouse to the Format Menu and click once to activate the menu
2) Choose Slide Design …

13. More Slide Design
1) The Slide Design Tool will now be open on the right side of your PowerPoint window.
Scroll down to see the different designs available for use.
Once you find the design you want to use, click on it once and it will become the slide design on all your slides.

14. Adding Animation Separate your text into different text boxes
if you want it to appear
in different ways or
at different times.

15. How to Add the Animation -1
After adding the text boxes and pictures you want on the slide:
1) Move your mouse to the Slide Show Menu and click once to activate the menu
2) Choose Custom Animation …

16. How to Add the Animation -2
1) Click once on the object you want to animate to activate it
Move your mouse to the Custom Animation tool that appears on the right side of the window and click on Add Effect
Choose the type of effect you want in the submenu that appears
Choose the specific effect in the next submenu

17. How to Add the Animation -3
1) Add animation to all the objects you want animated using the steps outlined.
When you are done you will see numbers next to the animated objects
You can put them in a different order by clicking and dragging them in their list
You can change how the animation occurs by clicking on the “down arrow” at the end of each effect  a new submenu will appear from which you can make more choices.

18. Other Advice Use keywords and phrases – not sentences
Use slides to guide your presentation not give it
Keep plenty of “white space” on your slides

19. More Advice Keep your slide design and animation simple
After your last slide, add a “Credits” slide to cite your sources

20. More Advice There is a great deal more you can do in PowerPoint!
Experiment with the toolbar buttons and see what happens
Visit on-line websites with PowerPoint advice

21. The End

22. Credits
George Mason Statue picture from
Other clip art from Microsoft
In MS Office Suite Clipart
On-line at
PowerPoint screenshots by Laurie Miller

23. Credits
George Mason Statue picture from
Other clip art from Microsoft
In MS Office Suite Clipart
On-line at
PowerPoint screenshots by Laurie Miller
Creation date: September 2005 by Laurie Miller