1. Teams who run this, year E BB T B F TE SS CC Iso Right (start here)

2. Teams who run this, year How to proceed If I were you, I’d print this out as handouts and keep it handy until you get comfortable with it. To do this, click “File/Print” then when that window pops up look lower left for “Print What” and click the down arrow to see your options, select “Handouts” Just to the right of that says “Slides per page”, select a number per page. 6 per slide is pretty good but I’d do 4 per slide and you’ll be able to ready it easily. Hit “OK”

3. Teams who run this, year How to make your own I would click “File/Save As” and rename this file to anything you like. By doing this, you are not destroying my file but making another copy to use. On the left part of the screen, delete slides 2 – 12 and read your directions you printed to make your own cards. You can right click on each slide one by one and select “delete slide” or click on #2 then scroll down and hold the “shift” key and left click on #12, then right click on #3 and select “delete slide” it will get rid of all of them.

4. Teams who run this, year How to make your defense Start with the template I made for you (slide #1) Move your base defenders where you want them and name them whatever you like.

5. Teams who run this, year How to align defense on a slide If you want to make things line up either horizontally or vertically (like LB’s at the same depth or stack over a lineman), then click the objects you want to align (I usually use at least 3 reference points) by clicking each one as you hold the “shift” key. Next make sure in the lower left corner of your screen shows a “Draw” button. If not, go to “View/Toolbars” and make sure “Drawing is checked” Now, click on your people as described above and then click “Draw/Align or Distribute” and choose the one you want to do. If you mess up, they all look in a pile or something like that, then just go to “Edit/Undo” – great tool, I wish do-overs in life were that easy.

6. Teams who run this, year How to draw the offensive play Use the drawing tools to make the play you want. Click on “Autoshapes/Lines” and put the cursor at the top of the “Lines” box. When the cursor looks like this drag it somewhere on the desktop. You’ll use this box over and over again so instead of 3 clicks you now can do it in 1 click.

7. Teams who run this, year How to make a new offensive play the opposite direction Now you are ready to make the play go left in a matter of clicks instead of drawing it all over again. Go back to slide 1 (or whatever slide you want to flip. Go to “Insert/Duplicate Slide”

8. Teams who run this, year How to flip the offensive play Now you are ready to make the play go left in a matter of clicks instead of drawing it all over again. Click on the slide you want to flip now and click somewhere on the white screen of the slide. Go to “Edit/Select All” or “Control A” for you shortcut guys If everything on your screen is selected, then you can go to the next slide. If nothing got selected, try it again, click somewhere in the middle of the slide you want to copy and flip and select “Edit/Select All”

9. Teams who run this, year How to flip the offensive play (2) Hold down the “shift” key and right click somewhere on the screen. If things got deselected, then go back one step and select them again. From the right click, select “Grouping/Group” Now all your little selection marks go away and they are now around the outside of the screen. From here, click “Draw/Rotate or Flip/Flip Horizontal” You now have a flipped play, don’t forget to change the name of the play

10. Teams who run this, year Shortcuts You can also put a “Rotate or Flip” box on your desktop by clicking “Draw/Rotate or flip” going to the top of that box until this appears then dragging the box on the screen up next to the “Lines” box you did earlier. These 2 boxes will be used a ton so why not use shortcuts?

11. Teams who run this, year More Hints If you’d like to change the lower right hand corner, click “view/master/slide master” In the lower right corner, you’ll see what I typed in there, change it to whatever you like an then look at the top middle of your slide. There should be a box that says “Slide Master View” at its top. Lower right of that box says “Close Master View” and now whatever you typed will appear on EVERY SLIDE.

12. Teams who run this, year More Hints Coaches, from here, click back on the slide you want to duplicate and go through the process again. Now you don’t want it to be between your left and right for the 1 st play, so click down the left side of the screen on the new play you duplicated and drag it below the left version of the play. If you do it right, you will see a very light grey line below the 2 nd slide indicating that is where you want to drop it, then let go and you have just copied it and moved it to where you want it. From there, do the whole process again to make a new play and keep going. Any questions, email me at jmurdock@citlink.net