Introduction to PowerPoint

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Introduction to PowerPoint

• By Michelle Kravitz

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What is PowerPoint?

• A presentation software
• Uses multimedia text, graphics, pictures,
  sounds, videos, music, etc.
• A tool for professionally displaying and
  presenting work

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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

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PowerPoint (continued)

• You will be asked about your new presentation
  that youre going to create with this menu
• Click on Blank Presentation then click on

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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

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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.)

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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.

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Coloring and Formatting Text

• We dont live in a boring Black-and-White world
• Lets add color and nice formatting to the text!

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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Background Color (cont.)

• Click on the down-arrow then select More Colors
• From the palette, you may pick any color you want!

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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!

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Importing a picture

• 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

• Clip Art

• Internet

• From disk

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Importing Clip Art

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

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Clip Art (cont.)

• First, select the category that interests you
  (single click)
• Then, select the image within the gallery that
  you want (single click)

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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

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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!

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Importing a picture (cont.)

• To insert a picture from your own disk, first
  select the Insert menu, then Picture, then From
  File .

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Importing a picture (cont.)

• Next, you will be presented with a screen that
  asks where the picture file is located..

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Importing a picture (cont.)

• If your picture is on your disk, select drive A,
  3½

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Importing a picture (cont.)

• Select the picture that youd like to import from
  your disk, then click

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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