POWERPOINT

A. Creating new presentations 1. Launch PowerPoint. The following screen will automatically be shown, bringing you into a blank presentation, displaying a blank title slide.

B. Adding new slides 1. Click on the drop down arrow beneath the NEW SLIDE button in the slides group, on the HOME ribbon. A menu with the different layout types of slides will appear.

2. Make a selection by clicking on one of these with the left mouse button.
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C. Adding illustrations 1. Go to the INSERT ribbon and click on the SHAPES button to open the shapes menu. 2. To draw a shape, click on the shape to select it, then click on the slide at the top left corner where you want to start and drag the outline of the shape diagonally. 3. Release the mouse and the shape appears on the slide. D. Inserting pictures 1. Go to the insert ribbon in the illustrations group and click on the picture button 2. A dialog opens to allow you to navigate to the location of your picture. After locating your picture, click on the insert button. Your picture is inserted. 3. Resize and move your picture as you would any other object

4. To crop (cut) the picture, select the Format ribbon, size group and click on the crop button 5. Position mouse over one of the resizing handles. 6. Click and drag to crop.

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E. Adding transitions and animation effects 1.You can animate the text in your slide to add emphasis to your topics. On a bulleted list slide, animation can be applied to both the title area and the bullets area and is most commonly used to get bullet points to appear one by one. 2.Text animation is applied using the Custom Animation task pane. You may only apply animation in normal slide view.

3. Entrance Effects change the way that objects arrive onto a slide. Text can be made to simply appear, or there are more exciting effects such as Crawl In or Fly In. 4. Emphasis Effects can be applied to objects that are already on the slide. Emphasis Effects will bring attention to an item without actually moving its location e.g. text can be made to spin in position. 5.Exit Effects change the way that objects leave a slide. The effects applied are similar to Entrance Effects. Motion Paths can be used to make objects move along a certain trajectory e.g. down, up, spiral. F. Inserting audio / video 1. You can add audio/video in your slide. Click on MOVIE or SOUND icon and choose the location of the file.

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G. Running a slide show 1.Click the SLIDE SHOW button in the lower-right corner of the presentation window. This will start the show at your currently select slide.

H. Saving a presentation 1. Select the OFFICE button and SAVE AS PowerPoint 2007. 2. From the displayed choices choose Save As. 3. In the type list, choose PowerPoint Show. Enter file name and location to save presentation. Click on SAVE. 4. You can also save the presentation as a web page. Click open the presentation you want to save as a web page and select the OFFICE button and SAVE AS.

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5. From the displayed choices choose OTHER FORMATS. 6. From the SAVE AS dialog which appears, go to the SAVE AS TYPE box near the bottom of the dialog and from that box choose WEB PAGE. 7. Enter a FILE NAME and choose a location to save presentation. 8. Click on SAVE. When you open the file it will open in internet explorer and behave as a web page.

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