This is where your title of your presentation will typically go. You can add various font effects as well as slide effects to any and all slides as you create them. By clicking on the design tab you can add a themed design to your slide as well as your whole presentation, or you are free to choose any combination of colors and designs to make your own unique style. By clicking on the “fonts” button in the design tab you are able to change the of the text on the current slide, or when in the home tab you can adjust the color of the font by clicking on the capital “A” with the red underline, and select from a big assortment of colors. *Remember highlight the text that you would like to change!* You can also click on the insert tab to enter various things to your slide as well. We will go through some of these in the next slides. This area tends to be where one would put your name or the author of this presentation.

The title of the current slide will be put here; typically the topic of what the slide will discuss or show. In this section you can easily add bulleted text Or a host of other things such as charts Graphs Tables Pictures Clip-Art Media such as video clips URLs/Hyperlinks that will link to the website entered. To simply enter any text you would like you can click in the section or area you want to type in and simply start typing.

Inserting a Picture In this slide we will insert a picture. To insert a picture, you will click on the “Insert Tab” at the top of the program. Then click on the icon that says picture. It will then bring up another window asking where you would like to select a picture from. Typically if you want to insert a picture from the web you will select the image and right-click it, which will bring up a shortcut menu and then you would want to save it to the location where you will save your pictures to access them when you decide to insert them into your presentation. To adjust the size of your picture or move the picture anywhere you like, click on the picture and you will see a box that is formed around the picture. Click on any side or corner when the arrow pops up in your cursor and you can expand or shrink the image to your liking. If you see the 4-way arrow when you hover over the selected picture. That simply means you can move the image to where you would like to put it in the slide.

Inserting Clip art Inserting Clip-Art is quite similar to inserting a picture. Click on the “Insert” tab, and then click on the icon that says clip art. It will then prompt a menu to the side of the presentation slides asking for what particular type of clip-art you are looking for. You can use any key terms to search for a particular image you are looking for. After typing a keyword it will search through the database of clip-art images and will show you results underneath. You can simply click on any clip-art you like and it will then put the clip-art image into your slide. You can adjust size, and placement as you would a picture as previously discussed.

Inserting a chart Inserting a chart/bar graph follows the same steps as inserting images. When inserting a chart of some form, when clicking on the chart icon in the Insert tab, it will prompt excel to open up to enter your data for the chart. Insert the data into the excel spreadsheet, and then close excel and all your information will be entered into the chart of your choice.

Inserting a table 1 2 3 4 5 6 Words Phrases Keyboard Various Flowers Pets Inserting a table follows the first steps of all the other objects we have entered already. Click the insert tab and then the table icon. When clicking the table icon a submenu pops up and you can form your chart by going up/down/across to make the number of rows and columns you need to make your table big enough for all the data you may have. *Remember rows are horizontal (across), while columns are vertical (up/down)* OR you can click “insert table” in the table submenu that pops up to select your rows/columns as well as other options to make your table. By clicking in each little section you can type all your various information you would like to put in the cells. By clicking your table, another menu will pop up at the top called table tools (design and layout) In the design tab you can adjust the color/theme/style of your table to your liking. In the layout tab you can add/delete columns and rows in case you end up with too many or not enough rows/columns.

Inserting things from another approach If you don’t feel like constantly clicking the insert tab to put in everything you want on your slides, you can simply click on any icon you see in the empty area on a slide when you begin a new slide. It does not show up on the printout here, but once you start up power point and you see a new slide you will see what we are discussing.

Inserting more than one item/layout selection. You are able to change the layout(or how the slide will look like) incase you get bored of using the same layout over and over on each slide. To change the layout of the current slide (it can be to include two objects[graph/chart or text/table, etc.] and a title as the current slide is) you simply click the home tab up top, and then click on the layout icon in the “slides” group, and you are free to select any layout you like. Any time you want to remove a picture or chart you an always right-click the object which selects it and brings up a shortcut menu, and you can click “cut” to eliminate what you don’t want.

Inserting hyperlinks Guilty Dog Inserting hyper links can get a little tricky. If you want to insert a hyper link which is usually a way to click right over to a website for more information or usually youtube to show a clip of a video. To insert a hyperlink click on the insert tab, and then click the “hyperlink” icon. It will bring up a sub menu. If you already know the website you want to link to, click on the icon to the left that says “existing file or webpage” in the submenu that pops up. Then in the “address:” bar on the bottom of the submenu is where you want to type the URL of your website/video that you want to link to such as www.google.com or www.youtube.com, then in the top of the submenu in the area where it says “Text to display” this is what you want the hyperlink to look like on the slide. If you don’t want a youtube video to display as the very long URL you can simply type “Guilty Dog” in this area to name the hyperlink as so, and all that will appear on the slide is “Guilty Dog” and not the entire URL. To open the hyperlink to show the video or webpage, right click the hyperlink and then click “open hyperlink” in the shortcut menu that pops up.

Transitioning slides. Slide transitions can be one of the most fun parts of a power point presentation. (Of course I can’t show you them on the print out but we can discuss them here in the program.) By clicking on the Animations tab up top, you can select any transition from slide to slide that you like. It can come in from the left side, or blur into the next slide. *Remember you must apply a transition to each slide as you create them in order for them to transition into the next slide. Once you are finished with your presentation you can click on the “Slide show” tab up top and then click “From Beginning” in the ‘Start slide show’ tab to view your presentation as t will be presented. This is a great way to fix any flubs or if you want to adjust anything you don’t like when you review your slideshow. When you are satisfied with your slide show you save your presentation as you would any other type of file. *REMEMBER* save it to your folder in the student server so it can be accessed from any computer.