USING
HELP
PowerPoint Help menu offers you numerous ways to find help for a
particular task. Type a subject in the search window to see help topics.
EXERCISE:
Creating a Presentation (Please follow along with instructor)
(Slide 1)
– Select a design template
1.
In the PPT Start-up Window, click “From Design
Template” located on the right-hand side of the screen under the heading “New.”
2.
Scroll down to see the various templates and click
on one of them.
(Slide 1,
cont.) – Add title and subtitle
1.
Click once on “Click to add title”
(this is the title placeholder) and type How
to Use PowerPoint.
2.
Click once on “click to add
subtitle” and type Building an Effective Presentation.
(Slide 2)
– Add a Bulleted List slide
1.
Click on the “New Slide” button
at the toolbar located at the top of the screen.
2.
Click once on the title
placeholder and type What you can do
with PowerPoint.
3.
Click once on “Click to add text”
(this is the text placeholder) and type the following text (hit
at the end of each line):
• Create electronic presentations
• Use special features to enhance your slides
• Practice and time your slide show
(NOTE: To format bullets, click on the “Format” menu and then click on “Bullets and Numbering.”)
(Slide 3)
– Add a Text & Content Layout Slide
1.
Click on the “New Slide” button.
2.
On the right side, scroll down until you see the “Text
and Content Layout” options.
3.
Click once on the option of your choice.
4.
Type Content
Options in the title placeholder.
5.
In the text placeholder, add the
following text (hit after each line):
• Clip Art
• Photographs
• Charts
• Graphs
• Tables
• Diagrams
• Media Clips
6.
Click on the Clip Art icon in the “add content”
area.
7.
Enter medicine
in the search window.
8.
Scroll through the results and
double-click on the Clip Art of your choice.
(Hint: Type “photograph” in
the Clip Art search window to see the clip art photo options)
(Slide 4)
– Add another Text & Content slide
1.
Click on the “New Slide” button.
2.
Type Advantages to Using a Variety of Content in the title placeholder.
3.
In the text placeholder, type the
following text (hit at the end of each line):
• Graphics keep a presentation lively
• Graphics are effective teaching tools
• Graphics keep the audience awake!
4.
Add the Clip Art of your choice to the slide
(Slide 5)
– Add a Chart
1.
Click on the “New Slide” button.
2.
Scroll down to “Other Layouts” and click on the “Title
and Chart” option (the last option).
3.
Type Simple
Charts in the title placeholder.
4.
Double-click on the chart placeholder.
5.
A datasheet will appear. Make changes if you like.
6.
Click once in your slide (outside
the datasheet) to add the chart to your slide.
Congratulations! You have completed a basic slide show. In the next
lesson, we will enhance the presentation to make it more interesting.
EXERCISE:
Enhancing Your Slide Show
Adding
Transitions
• Click on the “Slide Sorter View” button on the bottom, left-hand corner
of your screen.
• Click the
“Slide Show” menu and then click on “Slide Transition.”
• Click the
“Edit” menu and click “Select All”
• To the right, click a transition of your choice. This will apply to all
the selected slides. (Note: Select “Random Transition” – the last option – to
have a variety of transitions in your slide show)
Animating
Text
• All slides should still be selected (if they aren’t, click the “Edit”
menu and then “Select All”).
• Click the
“Slide Show” menu.
• Click on “Animation
Schemes.”
• At the right, choose an Animation Scheme. You will see a preview within
your slide sorter view.
(Note: to apply a different Animation Scheme to each slide, you will
have to select each slide individually and then choose a scheme for each one.)
Please Note: For more advanced
Animation options, you will need to utilize the “Custom Animation” options.
These are covered in the Advanced PPT class.
Running
the Slide Show
• Click
once on the first slide to select it.
• Click on the “Slide Show” button on the bottom left-hand corner of the
screen.
• To advance to the next slide, click the
mouse once.
• To draw on the slide, right-click, select “pointer options,” and “pen”. Hold down the mouse and write. Any marks you make are NOT
permanent. Hit to return to the pointer.
• To go back one slide use the
left arrow key.
• To Exit the slide show quickly, hit
.
ADDITIONAL
EXERCISES
Importing
Web Screens
• Start
with a blank slide in Normal View.
• Minimize the PPT program by clicking on the “minus” sign in the upper
right corner.
• Go into the Web and locate the screen you’d like to use in your
presentation.
• When the screen you want is displayed, hit the <Print Screen> key on your keyboard. This automatically saves the
screen to the computer’s clipboard.
• Minimize the web program (the minus button at the top right) and then
maximize the PPT program (click on the Microsoft PowerPoint button at the
bottom of your screen).
• Click on the Paste icon on
the toolbar (looks like a clipboard). The screen you saved will now appear on
your blank slide.
• Click once on the image and then drag the corners to fill the screen.
Note: You may want your slide to have a white background to better display the Web screen shot. To do
this, click the “Format” menu, click “Background,” and select white from the
pull-down menu of colors. You might also want to click “Omit background
graphics.” Be sure to click “Apply” and NOT “Apply to All”!
Inserting
Pictures into Your Slides
You can easily add pictures to your PPT slides. To do so, you must first
save the picture to the hard drive of your computer. Then insert it into your
presentation:
• In Normal View, display the slide on which you’d like the picture to
appear.
• From the Insert menu, choose the Picture from File command.
• Locate the file of the picture you have previously saved and
double-click the file name.
• The
picture will now appear on your slide.
• You may
move and resize the picture as you like.
Contact
information for help:
Raphael Isaac
CEO TWOBEST
+234-807-696-0331
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