Allisons Microsoft PowerPoint Lesson

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Allisons Microsoft PowerPoint Lesson ?

• For CGS 2100
• Textbook pages PPT 378

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Welcome to my PowerPoint lesson!

• When you have completed this tutorial, you should
  have all the information needed to complete
  Assignment 4.
• (Please be aware that this is just a lesson, not
  the actual assignment. The instructions for the
  assignment you need to submit are on the course
  website under Lab Assignments.)

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Open the newsletter document

• If you are at home, please download the
  PlanTemp.potx data file from my website.
• If you are at school, read on!
• Open the Start menu
• Go to Programs, choose To Students
• Open CGS 2100 Data Files
• Open 90577-6_PPT
• Open Tutorial.01
• Open Tutorial
• Finally, open PlanTemp.potx

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Do you see this?

• If so, good! Move on to the next step.
• If not, review the last slide and locate the
  appropriate file.

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Edit and replace text

• Click and drag to highlight the title text
  Company Name.
• Type a new title here it can be anything you
  want!
• Select the subtitle text Business Plan and then
  type your first and last name.
• Click anywhere else on the slide to make the text
  box inactive.

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First-Level Bullets

• Go to Slide 2.
• Click the thumbnail OR click the Next Slide
  button.
• Position your pointer at the end of the sentence
  (after mission.).
• Hit the ENTER key.
• Type First-level bullet.

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Second-Level bullets

• Make sure your insertion point is still at the
  end of bullet.
• Hit ENTER.
• Click the Increase List Level button.
• Type Second-level bullet.
• Hit ENTER.
• Click the Decrease List Level button.
• Hit TAB.
• Type Another second-level bullet.
• Hit ENTER.
• Click the Decrease List Level button.
• Type Back to first-level.

Increase List Level
Decrease List Level
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Applying a Theme

• Click the Design tab on the Ribbon.
• In the Themes group, click the More (down arrow)
  button to display the entire gallery of available
  design themes.
• Pick one that you like! ?

More button
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Different methods of Deleting Slides

• Go to Slide 3. Under the Home tab in the Slides
  group, click the Delete button.
• Click on the (new) Slide 3 thumbnail. Hit the
  DELETE button on your keyboard.
• Delete several slides at once.
• Click on the (new) Slide 3 thumbnail.
• Scroll down the Slides pane until you can see
  Slide 10.
• Hold down the SHIFT key.
• Still holding down the SHIFT key, click on Slide
  10.
• Click the Delete button or hit the DELETE key.

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Adding slides

• Go to Slide 2. (When you insert a new slide, it
  will go after whatever slide youre on.)
• In the Slides group on the Home tab, click the
  top area of the New Slide button.
• This will create a default slide a title and
  textbox.
• In the Slides group on the Home tab, click the
  bottom area of the New Slide button (where the
  little down arrow is).
• This will allow you to customize the layout of
  your slide choose any layout you like. ?

New Slide button, top area
New Slide button, bottom area
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Inserting clipart method 1 Manual Insertion

• Click on Slide 3, the one with the default
  layout.
• Go to the Insert tab.
• Under the Illustrations group, click the Clip Art
  button.
• A Clip Art search pane will show up, just like we
  saw in Word last week. You may search for and
  insert a picture of whatever you like.
• Click and drag the image to move it around.

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Inserting Clipart Method 2 Use a Content
Layout

• In the Home tab under the Slides group, click the
  lower area of the New Slide button
• Select Content with Caption
• In the textbox on the right, click the Clip Art
  button.
• In the Clip Art search pane, search for and
  insert a picture of whatever you like.

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Resizing Clip art

• Click on your clip art graphic.
• Hover over the white circle in the top-right
  corner. This is a sizing handle.
• Click and drag this circle to change the size of
  the image.

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Fin! ?

• Youre done! You now have everything you need to
  complete the assignment.
• You do not need to save your work from this
  lesson (unless you want to keep it for future
  reference).

Hooray! Were done! ?