1. How to Create a PowerPoint
Presentation
by Sead Spuzic

2. • Create a presentation using MS Office PowerPoint 2007
• Apply a theme
• Change the slide format from on-screen 4:3 to 16:9
• Insert a title slide
• Insert a content slide formatted as a bulleted list
• Insert an image
• Apply slide transitions
• Apply animation to the bulleted list
• Save the presentation

3. Creating a new ppt document and giving slides
a background and a set of colours.
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4. • Apply a theme
This is a quick way to give a specific look to an entire ppt
document.
A theme is a combination of colours and fonts,
which may be applied to a file as a single selection.
The default theme is Office Theme, with a white background
and dark, subtle colours.

5. Choose a theme (Ribbon > Design)
To see how a theme will look:
1) Rest the pointer over a theme thumbnail ...
2) ... and the preview appears on the slide.
3) Click the More arrow for a full theme gallery .

6. Tailor the theme
1) Use the Colours and Fonts galleries on the Design tab.
2) Look at other Background Styles. Choose theme colours.
3) Point to a thumbnail to preview the alternative background.
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7. • Change the slide format from on-screen (4:3) aspect to (16:9)
PowerPoint presentations are designed to fill a computer monitor screen.
(If your PowerPoint slides aren’t doing that, you may have inherited an old
presentation with slides that need resizing.)
1. Click the Design tab.
2. Click the Page Setup button.

8. 3. Click the down-arrow on the Slides sized for drop-down list and
choose an On-Screen Show setting. (click OK)
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9. • Insert a title slide
Click the New Slide button in the Slides group of the Home ribbon tab.
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10. • Insert a content slide formatted as a bulleted list
The same as above, just select a content slide as a New Slide

11. • Insert a content slide formatted as a bulleted list
Click the New Slide button in the Slides group of the Home ribbon tab.
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12. • Insert an image
One method is to click the Clip Art icon in the ribbon.

13. • Insert an image
Another way is to use the Picture tab on the ribbon.
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14. • Apply slide transitions
1. On the left side of the slide window in the pane that contains the
Outline and Slides tabs, click on the Slides tab.
2. Select the thumbnails of the slides that you want to apply transitions to.
3. On the Animations tab in the Transition to This Slide group, click a slide
transition effect.
(To see more transition effects, click the More button.)

15. • Apply slide transitions
5.
To set the slide transition speed between the current slide and the next
slide, in the Transition to This Slide group, click the arrow next to
Transition Speed and select the speed.
6. In the Transition To This Slide group, click Apply to All.
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16. • Apply animation to the bulleted list
Select the bulleted text.
Click the Animations tab and then the Custom Animation button.

17. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect,
then choose an effect from the animation list.

18. In the Animation Order list, click
the list arrow of the animation
and then Effect Options.

19. Click the Text Animation tab, click the Group Text list arrow, and then
choose the appropriate paragraph level.

20. Click OK and then Play.
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21. • Save the presentation
Save your work frequently.
A good practice is to save your file under different names,
as you are progressing with your work,
e.g.
Draft1.ppt
Draft2.ppt
Draft3.ppt, etc.

22. Thank you
This presentation is available at
http://www.slideshare.net/spuzics/presentation-ppt-1769653
Feel free to contact me at:
 (08) 8365 0767
 Sead.Spuzic@unisa.edu.au