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PowerPoint Presentations

Computer TechMr. Harkness

To move on in each screen click your mouse or use the Page Down

button

If you click too fast and miss something you can also use the Page Up and Page

Down buttons

Introduction PowerPoint Electronic

Presentations

Purpose

The State Board of Education found that colleges and businesses want students and employees to be able to make and present an electronic presentation.•Colleges use presentations for:

•Reports

•Projects

•Businesses use presentations for:

•Training

•Reports

Your Assignment Learn to Use Power Point Create a Presentation Print Note Pages Give Your Presentation to the Class

Project: All About Me! Preparation Start PowerPoint Wizard Backgrounds, Themes, and Clip Art Animations Transitions Saving and Printing

Preparation You Will Use All Nine of the Following Topics

for Your Presentation: Where I Live How Many People Are in My Family My Hobbies My Favorite Foods What I Want to Do When I Finish School The Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me My Favorite Music My Favorite Sports Conclusion

Think about each of the topics and write down on some scratch paper, some of the most important things that you think other people should know about you.

Include some things that would help make the presentation interesting and informative.

Preparation

Open the Program Click on Start > All Programs >

Microsoft Office > PowerPoint

Auto Content Wizard When you open the program the

following screen appears:

Click on Create a new

presentation

To start this assignment click on “From

AutoContent wizard…

Auto Content Wizard When the AutoContent wizard

starts it will look like this:

Click on Next

Make sure General and Generic are

chosen

Click on NextClick on Next

Type in: All About Me!

For the presentation title

Click on NextClick on Finish

Making the Title Page The following screen will appear:

Highlight the text and type

your own name here

Or you may Highlight the line in the outline

view at the left and type it in

Using the Wizard Template The Wizard Template gives you an

outline structure to follow Each presentation should have:

Title Page Introduction Topics of Discussion Topics Conclusion

These lines on the wizard suggest what content should be on each

slide.

•Now you type a sentence that states that you’re presenting yourself to the class so they can get to know you better.

•Then type your name on the line that says Identify yourself

Introduction Highlight and replace the text with your information

Topics of Discussion Now type in the nine topics

mentioned at the first as a bulleted list

Where I Live How Many People Are in My Family My Hobbies My Favorite Foods What I Want to Do When I Finish School The Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me My Favorite Music My Favorite Sports Conclusion

Topic Slides You will now take each of the

topics of discussion and make a slide for each

Replace with Where I Live

Put the main idea here like “I Live in Ogden”

Now down in the note section put all the details you can about your

main idea: “Our house is green, we have alligators in a pond etc…….”

New Topic Slide When you need a new topic slide

you can click on Insert > New Slide

Click on InsertThen New Slide

In this new slide continue placing the topic in the title box, the main idea in the next box, and the details in the note area.

Themes, Backgrounds, and Clipart

You have two kinds of slides in your presentation so far, a Title slide and regular slides with one bulleted text box.

To apply a design template for your presentation do the following:

Click on Format > Slide DesignA new tool window appears on the right. Use the scroll bar to view and then choose a new

design

Backgrounds If you don’t want a theme you can

make a custom background by right-clicking on the slide

The following box will appear:Click on Background

This window

will appear,

now click on the expand button

Backgrounds From the custom background

dialog box you can choose: Colors More Colors Fill Effects

Click a color here to change the

background color

Click here to choose more colors

Click here to choose effects like pictures, textures, and

gradients

Custom Backgrounds cont.

When you click on

gradient you can choose from these options to

change the entire

backgroundThis shows a preview of

the background

Choosing this tab allows you to choose from the

textures

This tab allows you to choose patterns for the background. You can choose the two colors

also.

Be careful using patterns because they sometimes

make it hard to read the screen

You can use a photo for the background. Click on Select picture >My

Computer > busdir (G:) > photohm and there

are 326 different photos to choose from

Title and Slide Masters When you chose a custom

background the extra graphics in the theme remained

To take these out so that your background has just what you want in it choose View > Master > Title Master

You might not want this blue shape on your

slide now so click on View

Click on Master > Slide Master

From here you can click on the blue shape and then press the Delete

key

You probably want to delete the red line also by clicking

on it and pressing the Delete key. Then Close

Master Slide

Changed Slide Master Here is the slide after changing the

Slide Master.

Clip Art For your assignment you need one

clip art for each slide. Do not download any; just use the

clip art that is provided by Microsoft Office Professional

Click on Insert > Picture > Clip Art

To insert clip art click on Insert > Picture >

Clip ArtWhen this box appears type a subject in the

search for box and click on GO

Click on the Picture to insert it in your

slide

You can resize the clip-art by clicking on one of the corner handles and

dragging to be larger or smaller.

Click on the clip-art and

hold the button down to drag an

place it where you want it on your slide

Transitions A transition is how you get from

one slide to the next Choose a transition by clicking on

Slide Show > Slide Transition

From this box you choose the

effect and timing. For this presentation

choose Automatically

after and put in 6 seconds

You can choose a transition for each slide, but for now click on Apply to

All

Printing You need to print your note pages You will use the note pages to give

your presentation Click on File > Print

To print note pages click on File > Print

Click on the expand menu

button and then on Note Pages in the

Print What box

Then click on OK

Rehearse Timings To view your presentation and set

the timing duration for each slide click on Slide Show > Rehearse Timings

The timing box appears in the upper left hand corner. You click on the right arrow when you are ready for the next slide. Use your

note pages to give your presentation, click on the right

arrow to move ahead to the next slide.

When you are finished save the timings and rehearse it again by pressing F5.

You may go back and change the timings by running Rehearse timings again or going to the individual slide and clicking on Slide Show > Slide Timings and adjusting the seconds.