This document provides instructions for basic skills in PowerPoint, including how to add shapes, clipart, and edit the slide master. It describes dragging the mouse to add a shape, searching online and inserting clipart images, and accessing the slide master to apply formatting globally. Students are assigned tasks to create a presentation about themselves using these skills and collecting images from the internet and home.

1. Lesson 4: Basic Skills
Add a shape
1. Select the shape that you 2. Left click hold and drag the
want to use. mouse to the bottom right.
Release the mouse to add the
shape.
3. Use shape styles to change
the appearance of your
shape

2. Lesson 4: Basic Skills
Add clipart
1. Select the clipart icon within 2. Enter your
the template text area Search Criteria
and then click
go…
3. Click on your
selected image
and it will appear
in the centre of
the page.

3. Lesson 4: Basic Skills
Edit the Slide Master
1. Select the View menu, and then click Slide Master
2. Anything that you place on the slide
master will appear on every page
throughout your website.

4. Lesson 4: Basic Skills
Your Task – Square and Pentagon
Create a PowerPoint Presentation ready to tell your
peers all about you.
Edit your Master Slide to contain the information
you want on every slide, and then add titles and
sub headings to each page.
Use the internet to collect some images, but
remember to bring some from home next lesson
too.

5. Lesson 4: Basic Skills
Your Task – Triangle
Download the template file from the website.
Edit your Master Slide to contain the information
you want on every slide, and then add titles and
sub headings to each page.
Use the internet to collect some images, but
remember to bring some from home next lesson
too.