1. Save this in your H:drive
Name it Powerpoint Practice
Each slide teaches you something new about Powerpoint.
Work at your own pace
You can change anything on these slides now that it is yours

2. Spell check Always spell check your Powerpoint!
Press the ABC button to check spelling below and to fix my mistakes.
You can right-click a word to fix spelling or to look up the defnion. Which words did I spell wrng?

3. HELP! The most import feature of any software is the HELP.
You can type things in your own words to teach yourself anything!

4. changing Color WORD ART
Right click on the WORD art above and click TOOLBAR
Experiment with shapes, shadows, CD settings
NOW right click and
FORMAT WORDART. Experiment with the options

5. Word Art Toolbar click on the Word art
Word Art Toolbar click on the Word art. The toolbar should open, if not, RIGHT CLICK the word art and click Toolbar The green circle rotates it open the Toolbar. Experiment
Broadway

6. WORD ART advanced
Friends
Experiment with color, shadow and shape

7. Create a word art
Click the word art icon on the toolbar, type your name and use the options below.

8. Auto shapes
Click the Auto shapes button at the bottom left hand of your screen
Click a shape, click and drag on your screen. Now use the options
To add a line around it, change color, etc

9. Format your auto shape Right-click on your auto shape
and select FORMAT

10. Slide Transitions
This is what happens between slides. You select an effect. Right click on this slide and select Slide transitions, Experiment

11. Practice bullets Put bullets in this:
Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York. The population was 30,940 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.
The City of Elmira is located in the south-central part of the county, surrounded on three sides by the Town of Elmira. It is in the Southern Tier of New York a short distance north of the Pennsylvania state line.

12. Bullet Style
To change Bullet Style, Click where the bullet will go. Click in front of GO:
Go to Format and then click on Bullets and Numbering. A dialog window will appear like the one below:

13. Clipart or Pictures you saved
To add ClipArt or images to the presentation, click on Insert on the menu bar and then on Picture. If your picture was in a file, choose the From File option. If you want to use PowerPoint's catalog of pictures, select Clip Art and a dialog box will appear with several options.
Use this for pictures saved on your computer

14. Slide layout Click INSERT, New Slide, check out the different styles
*** using the NEW slide button on the top right always gives you a blank slide

15. Backgrounds
To change the presentation's background, click on Format in the menu bar and then on Background. A Background dialog box will appear. Click on the down arrow (shown below) to open a drop-down menu of options. Click More colors
Experiment with Preset colors and
shading

16. Textures in background
Change colors

17. Custom animation Making things move on your slides
Right click on an object and click Custom animation
Click Add effect.
After you add an effect, you can add sound to it.
(see next slide for sound)

18. Animation sound Add an effect to the title of this slide
Click the arrow next to the effect
Experiment with the effect options

19. Changing clip art
You can ungroup and change color to some clipart. Not all
Click on the clipart below.
Click Grouping and UNGROUP. Click YES
Move parts and change colors.

20. Making your Powerpoint run automatically
Click Slide show
Click Set up show

21. Charts
Click Insert
Click Chart
Follow screen directions

22. Charts double click the chart to change the data

23. Printing and handouts
Ours is the xerox phaser library

24. narration Recording your voice You will need a microphone
Click slide show
Click narration
Follow screen directions
Talk slowly
Keep microphone under your mouse so you don’t get air noise

25. Playing a CD Click INSERT Movies and Sounds Play CD audio
Sounds must enhance the topic of your powerpoint, don’t use them if they don’t relate to the topic

26. How NOT to use PowerPoint
Later in this Powerpoint you will learn how to add a movie to your Powerpoint

27. Find an appropriate YouTube video
Put it on this slide.
You can use the handout.

28. Questions? FIRST: Use the help and try to figure it out
Please ask Mrs. Eagen if you need help after using help.