Introduction to PowerPoint

1. Introduction to PowerPoint By Michelle Kravitz

2. What is PowerPoint? • A presentation software • Uses multimedia: text, graphics, pictures, sounds, videos, music, etc. • A tool for professionally displaying and presenting work

3. Getting Started • First, click on the Button in the bottom-left corner • This will open up the menu options • Second, click on Programs then Microsoft PowerPoint • This will open PowerPoint and you will have a choice box

4. PowerPoint (continued) • You will be asked about your new presentation that you’re going to create with this menu: • Click on “Blank Presentation” then click on

5. PowerPoint (continued) • Next, a choice of several screens will come up for the New Slide you will be making • Double-click on the first screen

6. PowerPoint (continued) • You will now have the template for a “Title Slide” open • This will serve as the first slide in your presentation. • Click in the top box and type a Title • Click in the bottom box and type a subtitle (or name and date, etc.)

7. The Title Card • The title of your presentation should be concise and to the point • The subtitle box can contain your name, date, or an actual subtitle.

8. Coloring and Formatting Text • We don’t live in a boring Black-and-White world • Let’s add color and nice formatting to the text!

9. Coloring and Formatting Text • Select text you wish to format by dragging across the text with the mouse • Click on Format, then Font to make changes to Font Style, Size, Color

10. Moving a Text Box • Put arrow on the thick gray line, and a four-headed arrow will appear • Click, hold, and drag the text box to where to you would like it

11. Resizing a Text Box • Click on one of the corner “handles” of the box (and hold) • Using your other hand, drag the mouse either inside (to make smaller), or outside (to make bigger)

12. Adding a Background Color • Adding a background color to your slide will improve the visual quality and appeal to the entire presentation • First, open the Format Menu, and select Background

13. Background Color (cont.) • Click on the down-arrow then select More Colors • From the palette, you may pick any color you want!

14. Background color (cont.) • After you have selected your new color, the previous window will again appear. • Choose “Apply” to apply this background color to just this one slide • If you choose “Apply to All”, this background color will be applied to all of your slides!

15. “Importing” a picture • Clip Art: • Pictures and images can also be incorporated into presentations (as you have seen with this presentation) • Pictures can be from sources such as Clip Art, the Internet, or from your personal disk • Internet: • From disk:

16. Importing Clip Art • Open the Insert menu and select Picture, then Clip Art

17. Clip Art (cont.) • First, select the category that interests you (single click) • Then, select the image within the gallery that you want (single click)

18. Clip Art (cont.) • Now, close the Clip Art dialog box and you will see your selected clip art on the slide • To move and resize the clip art, apply your knowledge of the methods of moving and resizing text boxes

19. Importing a picture from your disk • To personalize your presentation, it is always a good idea to add pictures that are generated yourself. • This makes your project unique to you!

20. Importing a picture (cont.) • To insert a picture from your own disk, first select the Insert menu, then Picture, then From File ….

21. Importing a picture (cont.) • Next, you will be presented with a screen that asks where the picture file is located..

22. Importing a picture (cont.) • If your picture is on your disk, select drive A, 3½

23. Importing a picture (cont.) • Select the picture that you’d like to import from your disk, then click

24. For additional study • Adding a slide transition • Importing a video • Importing a sound / Recording a sound • Applying design templates • Word art • Inserting graphs from Excel and Word