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PowerPoint Basics

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What is PowerPoint?
Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. It is widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers. According to Microsoft 30 million PowerPoint presentations are made every day

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To produce slide shows to accompany a wide range of different types of presentations, including: - Sales presentations - Academic presentations - Training workshops - English language lessons

What can PowerPoint be used for?

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Tutoria l Outlin e

- Choosing a design for your slide show - Choosing a colour scheme - Inserting text onto a slide - Changing Text Box properties - Changing the size of a Text Box - Moving a Text Box - Creating a new slide - Inserting your own Text Box - Inserting an image onto a slide - Viewing your presentation Full Screen - Copying images from the internet - Adding Slide Transition effects

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1). Click on the start button in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. 2). At the top of the start menu it says New Office Document. Click this. In the new menu, double-click on Blank Presentation

Let's get started!

3).

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Your screen should look like this:

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Choosing a design for your slide show
Now click on the

icon in the top right-hand side of the screen, next to the 'New Slide' icon

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Now your screen should look like this:

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Choosing a design for your slide show

Choose one of the designs from the selection (Slide Designs)

By default there are 25 different designs to choose from

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Choosing a colour scheme
Now click on the

icon in the Slide Design window, underneath the Design Templates icon

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Choosing a colour scheme
You will be given a choice of between 6 and 12 different colour on depending schemes the slide design you have chosen Now choose a colour scheme!

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Inserting Text onto a slide
Now do as it says in the text box on your screen 'Click to add title' For this tutorial type ....'s Presentation

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Inserting Text onto a slide

When you click on the slide outside the Text Box, the Text Box border disappears To make the Text Box border appear again just click on the text

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Changing Text Box properties
The border of the Text Box is shaded with diagonal lines. This means the Text Box is in Text Writing Mode If you put your mouse over the Text Box border, notice that the cursor changes to a four-arrowed cross like this: Put your mouse over the Text Box border and click once. The shading of the border will become dotted. This means the Text Box is in Change Properties Mode To get back into Text Writing Mode just click on the text in the Text Box

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Changing Text Box properties
Now make sure that your Text Box is in Change Properties Mode i.e. dotted border shading

Change the following font properties by clicking on the icons in the Standard toolbar at the top of the screen (similar to the ones in Microsoft Word) Font Style Font Size Font Colour

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Changing the size of a Text Box
At the corners of the Text Box and at the mid-points of the lines there are white dots. dots If you put your mouse over these dots the cursor changes into a doublearrowed line

When the double-arrowed cursor appears press the mouse button and hold it down. The cursor will change into a cross

Drag the mouse in the directions the double-arrowed line points (Note: the easiest way to change the size of the whole Text Box is to drag the white dots on the corners diagonally)

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Moving a Text Box
To move the Text Box put your mouse over the border so that the four-arrowed cross appears Then press the mouse button and hold it down

Drag the Text Box to where you want it on the slide and release the mouse button

Delete the Click to add subtitle' Text Box by going into Change Properties Mode (dotted border shading) and pressing Delete on your keyboard

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Creating a New Slide
Now create a new slide by clicking on

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Creating a New Slide

This time choose the blank slide option in the Contents Layouts Next you can make your own Text Box

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Inserting your own Text Box
Click on the Text Box icon

on the Drawing toolbar at the bottom of the screen

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Inserting your own Text Box
Notice that when you put the mouse cursor over the slide, it changes to an upside down cross

Click once to create a Text Box

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Inserting your own Text Box

Be careful not to click on anything else before you write anything, or the Text Box may disappear For todays presentation type My Country

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Inserting your own Text Box

Change the properties of the Text Box and move it in the same way as you did for

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Inserting an Image onto a slide

On the Task Bar at the bottom of the screen you will see an Explorer window called Maps & Flags

Click on this folder to open it

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Inserting an Image onto a slide

Now pick a country and double-click on the folder to open it There are two images in the folder: a map a flag Click once on the map image file and press the Control Key (Ctrl) + C on your keyboard

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Inserting an Image onto a slide

Now go back into PowerPoint

Press the Control Key (Ctrl) + V on your keyboard and the image should appear on your slide Drag the image to where you want it on the slide
(Change the size if you want to by dragging the

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Inserting an Image onto a slide

Now go through the same process with the flag image

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Viewing your presentation Full Screen
When you're done
3) add a new slide (no.3) 2) create a Text Box saying 'My Hobbies'

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Viewing your presentation Full Screen Now let's have a quick look at your presentation so far

First go back to Slide 1 by clicking on the slide view on the left

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Viewing your presentation Full Screen Now click on the

Full Screen icon

in the bottom left of the screen

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Viewing your presentation Full Screen

To get out of Full Screen Mode press the Escape Key (Esc) on your keyboard

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Copying images from the Internet Now maximize Internet Explorer (see the Taskbar)

Use Google Image to find a picture representing one of your hobbies

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Copying images from the Internet When you find an image that you like click on it with the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON A menu will appear like this: Click on Copy

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Copying images from the Internet Now go back to Slide 3 in your presentation Click on the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON again This time a different menu will appear like this: Click on Paste Your image will appear on the slide

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Copying images from the Internet

Now COPY & PASTE more images onto Slide 3

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Adding Slide Transition effects Right click on the mouse and this menu appears again:

Click here

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Adding Slide Transition effects

Notice the list of different effects in the Slide Transition panel Click on a few to see them demonstrated

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Adding Slide Transition effects

Notice that the Slide Transition effects alter the way the slide appears on the screen

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Adding Slide Transition effects You can control the speed of the effects by clicking on the Speed dropdown menu in Modify transition

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Adding Slide Transition effects

When you've finished, go back to Slide 2

Now add Slide Transition effects to all three of your slides

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Adding animations to object on a slide Now right-click on one of your images. A new menu will appear Click Here

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Adding animations to object on a slide This will cause the Custom Animation panel to appear

Now click this button

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Adding animations to object on a slide

When you put your mouse over Entrance a selection of animation effects appears Click on one of the effects to apply it to your image You will see the effect demonstrated

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Adding animations to object on a slide

To change an effect first click once on the effect logged in the Custom Animation panel

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Adding animations to object on a slide Notice that the Add Effect button has become the button Then choose a different animation effect

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Adding animations to object on a slide

You can also add animation effects to Text Boxes in the same way Now add animation effects to as many objects in your slide show as you like

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PLAY TIME!!!
add as many new slides as you like Cover your slides with lots of cool text and images Add flashy slide transitions Animate the objects on your slides

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e m i T e e f f Co folks!