Powerpoint for Students

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Powerpoint for Students
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What is Powerpoint?

• Presentation software
• Slides
• Graphics
• Animations for text
• Animations for slides
• Sound effects

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Getting Started

• Click on Powerpoint from the dock
• In the project gallery, scroll UP and
  select auto content
  presentation.
• Then click Open

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• Category - All
• Click Training
• Click Next
• On page 2,
  click Next

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• Type your title
• Type your name
• Click Finish
• When the slideshow opens, delete slides 3, 4 and
  5.
• To delete, click here
• Then press the delete button
• Then press Ok

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The PowerPoint Environment

• The main window is your slide
• Toolbars are at the top
• On the left is your formatting palette
• Click the arrows to see
• All options
• Is the palette missing?
• Then click on
• View gt Formatting Palette

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Customizing your slide

• Click the arrow beside Changing Slides in the
  formatting palette
• Use the scroll down button
• Double click the slide
  style you prefer
• Click in the text box and type the text you would
  like to appear on the first slide.

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Adding Objects

• Slides Symbols Autoshapes Lines
  WordArt
• Graphics

• The 6 sections under the objects palette

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Formatting Palette

• When you start working on this slideshow,
  familiarize yourself with the formatting palette
• Click in a text box on a slide first
• Click on the arrows beside each formatting
  palette section.
• Mouse over any icons
• you do not recognize
• and a help pop-up
• will appear.
• Note- the formatting palette will change
  depending on what you clicked on (ie. Text or an
  image)

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Using Animations

• Click on in the text box you want to animate.
• Then click on the arrow for the Animation Palette
• Click the icon beside customize
• Click Add Effect
• Chose your effect
• Entrance is the most
• common use of this feature

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Save your Presentation

• Select File gt Save
• Name your presentation
• Save it in Classes gt I Made These gt Social
  Studies