PowerPoint in an hour, or

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PowerPoint in an hour, or

• How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Children
  
• By Glenna LongLT 130 Spring 2005

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Summary of Steps

• PowerPoint in an hour, or
• Step OneOpen PowerPoint
• Step Two Task Pane
• Step Three Slide Layouts
• Step Four Apply a Design
• Step Five Add Text

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Summary Slide (cont.)

• Step Six Insert Clip Art
• Step Seven Insert Web Links
• Step Eight Draw a Shape
• Step Nine Master Slide
• Step Ten Headers Footers
• Step Eleven Animation Schemes

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Summary Slide (cont.)

• Step Twelve Slide Transitions
• Step Thirteen Save!
• Step Fourteen Viewing
• Step Fifteen Slide Show
• Step Sixteen Outline, Notes
• Step Seventeen -- Handouts

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Step One -- Open PowerPoint

• Click on Start
• Programs
• Microsoft Office
• PowerPoint
• OR
• Click on the PPT icon if its on the desktop

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Step Two Task Pane

• Click on View
• Check Task Pane
• Open Task Pane to double width
• Click on Down Arrow to open list of steps to
  create a presentation

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Step Three Slide Layouts

• Begin with title slide
• Title
• Your name
• LT 130
• Spring 2005
• Choose each slide layout according to text and
  content of that slide

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Step Four Apply a Design

• Open Slide Design
• Open Design Templates
• Scroll through choices
• Apply a template choice
• Open Color Schemes
• Scroll through choices
• Apply a color scheme
• Changing one changes all!

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Step Five Add Text

• Type directly onto slide
• OR
• Add text to outline

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Step Six Insert Clip Art

• Open Insert Clip Art from Task Pane
• I searched Library
• Search for clip art
• See also Clips Online
• Search
• Right click for clipboard
• Adjust size on slide

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Step Seven Insert Web Links

• Type text Sea World
• Click on Insert hyperlink
• Type URL (or copy from web page)
• May insert picture from web link it
• For detailed instructions, see Notes below
  (scroll)
• or Click here How to Hyperlink

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Step Eight Draw a Shape

• Open Drawing Toolbar
• Click on AutoShapes
• Use Text Box to enclose text

Typed text withoutborders.
Typed text with borders.
This is a 5-point star.
Basic shape.
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Step Nine Master Slide

• Controls properties of every slide
• Presentation look consistent
• Open View -- Master -- Slide Master
• Format
• Edit Master title style
• Edit Master text styles
• Edit bullets/numbering style
• Insert an object, if one is desired on every
  slide
• Clip art or logo
• Drawing

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Step Ten Headers Footers

• Open View
• Choose Header and Footer
• Footer for all slides
• Check items want to include
• Date time set or changing
• Footer text
• Slide number
• Include on title page?
• Header only for Notes and Handouts

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Step Eleven Animation Schemes

• Open Task Pane
• Click on Animation Schemes
• Applies to individual slides or all slides
• Use sparingly
• This one is dissolve in
• Previous slide was bounce

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Step Twelve Slide Transitions

• Open Task Pane
• Select Slide Transition
• Apply chosen transition to any or all slides
• One or more styles
• Random transition
• Modify transition
• Speed
• Loop
• Advance slide
• On mouse click
• Automatically

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Step Thirteen Save!

• Dont forget to save your PPT at every step
  whether on your hard drive or floppy!
• Save as type
• Presentation

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Step Fourteen Viewing

• Open View
• Choose way to view presentation
• Normal with and without outline
• Slide sorter
• View all at once
• Edit order and transitions
• Slide show
• Notes page

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Step Fifteen Slide Show

• Open Slide Show on Standard Tool Bar
• Set up show
• Check various settings
• View show
• Rehearse timings

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Step Sixteen Outline, Notes

• Outline
• Left side pane of Normal View--Outline tab
• Text to slides may be added from outline
• See main points all in one place
• Outline from Word Document may be imported
• Notes
• Open View, Notes Page
• Create speaker notes for each slide

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Step Seventeen -- Handouts

• Open File on Standard Toolbar
• Go to Print
• Select option from Print What
• Slides
• Handouts
• Number of slides per page
• Order of slides
• Outline View or Notes Pages
• Print