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Advanced Powerpoint Features: Some General Tips and Techniques For Those Familiar With The Basics of Powerpoint

This document provides tips for advanced PowerPoint features such as formatting fonts, adding text boxes, using pre-made slide designs and colors, inserting sounds, changing backgrounds, running slides automatically in a loop or with transitions, and using animation schemes. Some of the tips covered include how to italicize or bold text, draw and add text boxes, change slide color schemes, add background images or sounds, set up automated or looping slide shows, and select animation schemes for bullet points.

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Advanced Powerpoint Features: Some General Tips and Techniques For Those Familiar With The Basics of Powerpoint

This document provides tips for advanced PowerPoint features such as formatting fonts, adding text boxes, using pre-made slide designs and colors, inserting sounds, changing backgrounds, running slides automatically in a loop or with transitions, and using animation schemes. Some of the tips covered include how to italicize or bold text, draw and add text boxes, change slide color schemes, add background images or sounds, set up automated or looping slide shows, and select animation schemes for bullet points.

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Advanced PowerPoint Features

Some general tips and


techniques for those familiar
with the basics of PowerPoint
By Jacob Hill, Librarian, Elmhurst
College
Fonts

 All font changes can be made under the


Format menu on the toolbar
 You can italicize, underline, embolden or
change types or sizes, plus change color
using the colored “A” on the toolbar.
 Font changes only affect the current slide.
Adding Text Boxes

 You can insert a text box anywhere you want


text on a slide.
 Click on Insert/ Text Box, then use your
mouse to “draw” a text box by dragging your
mouse across the slide.
 Type in the text box (do this first, or you will
lose the box when you click somewhere
else).
Pre-made Slide Designs and colors

 Slide design refers to Design Templates (pre-


made slide designs) and slide Color
Schemes under Format/ Slide Design.
 Use Design Templates to find a slide design
you like from a list on the right panel.
 Use Color Schemes to change the color
combinations of various pre-made slides.
Adding Sounds
 There are several ways to add sound.
– To add sounds that will occur each time
you advance a slide, go to Slide Show/
Slide Transition.
– Under “Modify Transition,” select the drop-
down menu under “Sound” and choose a
pre-made sound.
Background Images and colors

 To change the background color instead of


adding a pre-made Design Template, go to
Format/ Background.
 Click on the drop-down menu in the pop-up
menu to choose colors, or go to “Fill Effects”
to add your own image as a background.
– Background images: under “Fill Effects,” go to
“Picture,” then “Select Picture” and add your
image file. Apply to all Slides.
Sounds, continued

 You can also add music files from your


computer, or play from a CD.
– To have a particular song file play in a slide, go to
that slide, click on Insert/ Movies and Sounds,
then choose the sound file you want on your
computer, OR…
– You can put a CD in the tray and choose “Play
CD audio track” in the same menu to play from
the CD.
Sounds, continued

 To have a song play over your entire presentation,


go to the title slide, insert your sound file, then right
click on the sound icon and choose “Custom
Animation.”
 In the Custom Animation screen, click on the sound
file’s drop-down menu and choose “Effect Options.”
 In the Effect Options pop-up window, under “Stop
Playing,” click on “After” and choose the number of
slides you want the song to play over.
Running Slides Automatically

 To have your slides run automatically, click


on Slide Show/ Slide Transition
 On the right-side panel under “Advance
Slide,” click on “Automatically after…” and
choose your time interval.
 Then click “Apply to All Slides.”
Running your presentation in a loop

 To make your presentation run continuously


until you press Escape, go to Slide Show/
Set up Show.
 Under “Show Options,” click on “Loop
continuously until ‘Esc’.”
Changing Slide Transition

 Slide transition affects the way the slide


appears on the screen.
 Go to Slide Transition under the Slide Show
menu. Pick a transition style to preview it.
 Can apply to one or all slides
Animation Schemes

 Affects the way bullet-pointed text appears


on the screen.
– If you don’t select an animation scheme for your
PowerPoint, all bullet points will appear at once
on a slide.
 Go to Slide Show/ Animation Schemes.
 Pick an animation scheme from the list for a
preview, and apply it to all slides.

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