1. PowerPoint Practice Exercise
Save this file on your computer.
Open this file in PowerPoint
Edit each slide according to the instructions provided in the slides in order to learn the skills required for assignment 4.

2. Adding and Deleting Slides
Slides are added to a presentation by opening the Insert menu above and clicking New Slide. You might also use the New Slide button on the toolbar if it is available.
New slides are inserted following the current slide. Notice the current slide is highlighted in the left pane.
Slides are deleted by selecting them in the left pane and pressing the Delete key to delete it.
Try inserting a slide. After inserting a slide progress over the new slide to the next slide by either clicking it in the left pane or pressing the PgDn key.

3. Slide Formats: Clip Art
Open the Format menu and select Slide Layout. Click the slide format named Title, Text & Clip Art (under Other Layouts) to Apply it to this slide
Insert a Clip Art image of your choice
Progress to the next slide

4. Applying a Design Template
Select Format/Slide Design. Select a design of your choice and apply it to the presentation by clicking the arrow bar next to the slide of your choice and clicking Apply to All Slides
Select Color Schemes, select a color scheme of your choice, and Apply to All Slides
Now we’re crankin’!!

5. Acquiring Graphics from the Web
Open your Web browser and go to
Right-click and save the FSU Seal located in the upper left corner of the page.
We’ll use this graphic later in the exercise.

6. Editing the Slide Master
Changes made to Slide Masters effect all slides of that type in the presentation.
View the Slide Master by clicking View then Master then Slide Master
Add your name to the footer
Insert the FSU Seal image that you saved earlier in the upper right corner of the Slide Master
Resize the Seal to make it very small and unobtrusive.
Click “Close Master View” on the Slide Master View toolbar.
Observe the results on all slides

7. Advanced Animation: Effect Options
Use the Custom Animation options to Add an Effect to this bulleted list so that each bulleted item Flies In one at a time with each mouse click.
Click the arrow button next to the animation setting for this text to access the Effect Options. In the After Animation settings select a light color.
Use the Slide show button to view the effect.

8. Advanced Animation: Timing
Using the Custom Animation pane
Set an animation for this bulleted list so that each 1st and 2nd bullet level Appear one at a time with each mouse click (you will need to change Group Text settings in Effect Options).
Set the below picture objects to Fly In one after the other, one from the left and the other from the right, automaticcaly (without clicking the mouse) with a 1 second delay on each (you will need to change the Direction and Timing settings in Effect Options)

9. Slide Transitions
Select Slide Show/Slide Transition. Try out the various transition effects.
Experiment with Speed and Sound
Select Random Transition and Apply to All slides.

10. Setting Up AutoPlay
You can set the timings for progressing through a presentation by selecting Slide Show/Rehearse Timings.
Run the show at the pace that you feel is appropriate, clicking the mouse to progress through all slides. PowerPoint will record your timings for use in auto-playing the presentation.
Save the timings when you are finished.
Upon exit, your slideshow will be displayed in Slide Sorter view. Note the timings associated with each slide.
Double-click this slide to return to Normal View.
Select View/Slide Show to auto-play this presentation.

11. Setting Up AutoPlay
For some environments, such as a public kiosk or trade show, you may wish to have your automated slide show loop back to the beginning when it concludes. To set your presentation to loop:
Select Slide Show/Set Up Show
Check the box by Loop continuously until “Esc”
Click OK
Try it out on this presentation.