n It all Begins Here: Create, Name, Save n Organizing the content: Opening Files, Adding a Background, Text in Your Presentation, Adding the Art, Ordering the Slides n Making it Look Good: Moving from Slide to Slide, Movement within a Slide, On with the Show

s Double click on the PowerPoint icon s Choose a blank presentation s You now have a variety of slide layouts..choose one..you can change it later s You have created the beginnings of your PowerPoint presentation

* You can save your work to a floppy or the hard drive..most presentations will be larger than what a floppy can hold. * When saving for the first time go to File and choose Save As. Under File name type in the name of your presentation (this helps you to find it later). * In the Save In box press the down arrow to locate where you’d like the file to be saved. * Click on Save * When saving the file in the future click the disk (save) icon.

J Choose the PowerPoint icon. J Click on open an existing presentation (this should already be highlighted) and OK. J Select the location where you saved the file (a drive, c drive-my documents etc.) J Choose the file name and Open.

¤ You can add color and design to your slides by adding a background. ¤ Use the tool bar or the menu bar. ¤ On the menu bar choose Format and apply design. ¤ Preview a presentation design by clicking once. ¤ Double click on the desired design. ¤ This design layout will be automatically assigned to all of your slides. ¤ Saving a design with a.wmf extension will allow you to import it as an object thereby allowing you to use different backgrounds on your slides.

( Text can be formatted in many ways..you can use the toolbars or Format on the menu bar. ( Change your bullets via Format on the menu bar. ( Change your paragraphs via the toolbar. ( Change your text style and color via the toolbar or menu bar (Format).

u Again there is more than one way to add pictures to your slides - toolbar or menu. u On the menu bar choose Insert and picture, from the toolbar choose the picture icon. u Choose clipart to choose pictures from the powerpoint catalog or from file if you are using a disk or network source. u Click and drag your selected picture to the desired location. u Resize by dragging the corner squares.

ã Want to add a new slide but worried about the order….don’t. ã You can order slides after creation or place a new slide between already completed slides. ã Look for the icon at the bottom that shows squares in a 2x2 table..click on the icon. ã You can now move your slides by dragging and dropping. ã Create a new slide between old slides by placing the cursor after the old slide and choosing Insert from the menu bar and new slide. ã If you make a mistake use Edit and undo.

n The change what occurs when you move from slide to slide is called transition. n Slide transitions can be applied to individual slides at the slide level or to individual slides and groups of slides at the all slides level. n Again look for the icon at the bottom that shows squares in a 2x2 table..click on the icon. n From the toolbar click on the icon just to the left of the no transitions box. This will bring up a box that lets you choose the transition effect….experiment!

n Add animation to your text and pictures and they will fly across the screen. n From the menu bar choose Slide Show custom animation, from the toolbar choose the animation icon. n Choose the Timing Option n For the animation options to appear you must highlight the desired text or art and then click animate. n Once you have clicked animate it will appear in the animation order box..you can change the order by highlighting and dragging. n Choose whether the animation will occur on a mouse click or automatically (set # of Seconds).

n Choose the Effects Option n Here you will determine what will happen when the text comes into your screen and the sound that will be heard when this occurs. n Choose the entry animation (fly from left etc.) and sound (clapping etc.). n For text choose, all at once (paragraph), word, or letter for the way you want the text to come in. n For all text to appear at once remove the check from the Grouped by __ level paragraph.

¨ The running of the show can be as complicated or as simple as you wish it to be. ¨ From the menu bar choose Slide Show, set up show. ¨ Here you can choose a variety of running options: ¨ have it presented by a speaker or browsed by an individual. ¨ play it once or loop it continuously ¨ run with or without the animation ¨ show specific slides rather than all ¨ run without the preset timings ¨ To run the show use Slide Show, view show, from the menu bar or choose the old style camera at the bottom of the screen.