The document provides an overview of PowerPoint basics for teaching students. It discusses introducing key PowerPoint terms and the four main toolbars. It recommends teaching the toolbars one at a time to prevent students from clicking every button. It also discusses whether to introduce the Office Assistant based on students' reading level and available class time. The document aims to equip students with PowerPoint essentials in a systematic way before introducing more advanced features.

1. •UNIT 1
•PowerPoint Basics
•Trusty Toolbars
•Handy Help
•Techie Terms
•Cool for School

2. Finding the toolbars
The toolbars contain graphically illustrated buttons that you click to
perform specific tasks in a program. PowerPoint has four main
toolbars, which can help you create your presentations quickly and easily.
The Standard Toolbar is located at the top of the PowerPoint
window, below the menu bar. It has buttons for common tasks such as
saving, printing, checking spelling, and inserting charts and tables.

3. The Formatting Toolbar is located just below the standard toolbar. Most
of its buttons are for formatting text. Use these buttons to change the
font type or size, make text bold or italic, indent text, and insert bullets.

5. The Drawing Toolbar is located at the bottom of the PowerPoint
window. It has tools for drawing shapes, adding lines and curves,
and inserting text boxes and WordArt. It also has buttons for
manipulating and formatting the objects you draw.

6. Moving the toolbars to new locations
All PowerPoint toolbars can be moved or docked to any side of the
PowerPoint window. As well, docked toolbars, including the Standard
Toolbar, the Formatting Toolbar, and the Drawing Toolbar, can be
converted to floating toolbars.
A move handle on the left or top of the toolbar indicate that the
toolbar is docked. A title bar indicates that the toolbar is floating.
Here's how to move one of the toolbars to a new
location:
1. Click the move handle on a docked
toolbar, or click the title bar on a floating
toolbar.
2. Holding down the mouse button, drag the
toolbar to the new location.

7. Docking a toolbar
Try docking a toolbar to the top of the PowerPoint window. This will
give you more working area on your PowerPoint window.
1. Click the title bar on the toolbar.
2. Drag the toolbar upwards, until the toolbar
outline snaps into place along the edge of the
program window.
If you see move handles on the toolbar, you know
it is successfully docked.

8. Adding and removing toolbars
PowerPoint has several other toolbars to help you accomplish
your tasks.
The Picture Toolbar has several buttons that are useful when
you work with images. There are buttons for
Contrast, Brightness, and Cropping. This toolbar will
automatically appear when you insert clip art or pictures.

9. The Animation Effects Toolbar has buttons for working with
animations, and the Web Toolbar helps you create presentations
on the Internet. There's also a Reviewing Toolbar, a WordArt
Toolbar, and a Control Box Toolbar.
When you're a more advanced user, you may wish to add some
of these toolbars to your PowerPoint window. Let's say you
want to add the animation effects toolbar. Here's what you do:
1. Click the View menu, and then point
to Toolbars.
2. In the submenu, click the check box
next to animation effects. An
animation effects toolbar appears in
the PowerPoint window.

10. Removing a toolbar
PowerPoint lets you remove toolbars you don't need. Try
removing the animation effects toolbar you just activated.
1. Click the View menu, and then point to Toolbar.
2. In the submenu, click the check box next to animation effects to deselect it.
The check mark disappears and the animation effects toolbar is
removed from your PowerPoint window.

11. Activating and using the Office Assistant:
The Office Assistant is an animated help system that answers
your questions, and offers tips and helpful suggestions as you
work. The standard Office Assistant character is Mr. Clipit an
animated paperclip but you can change the Office Assistant's
character at any time.
To activate the Office Assistant, click the Office Assistant button
on the Standard Toolbar.

12. Or click the Help menu, then click Microsoft PowerPoint Help.
The Office Assistant appears, ready to assist you.
Once the Office Assistant is activated, it "observes" your work and
offers tips or suggestions. A yellow bulb above the Office Assistant
indicates that it has a tip.

13. You can ask the Office Assistant to help you perform tasks in
PowerPoint. Lets say you want to find out how to insert a graphic.
Here's what you do:
1. Click the Office Assistant. A callout appears,
asking you what you want to do.

14. You can ask the Office Assistant to help you perform tasks in
PowerPoint. Lets say you want to find out how to insert a graphic.
Here's what you do:
2. Type in your request. For example, type
"insert a graphic". A list of related help topics
will appear.

15. You can ask the Office Assistant to help you perform tasks in
PowerPoint. Lets say you want to find out how to insert a graphic.
Here's what you do:
3. Select a help topic from the list. (Click See
More for more options.) The help topic is
displayed.

17. Using PowerPoint vocabulary
Here are some terms in PowerPoint 97 that are useful to know.
Slide: An individual screen in a slide show.
Presentation File: The file you save to disk that contains all the
slides, speakers notes, handouts, etc. that make up your presentation.
Object: Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as clip
art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips. You can refer to a
clip art object, a text object, a title object, a drawing object, etc.

18. Slide Show: A series of slides displayed in sequence. A slide show can
be controlled manually or automatically.
Transition: A special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide
show. For example, you can fade in from black, or dissolve from one
slide to another.

19. UNIT 1
Obviously you're a teacher with a pioneering spirit. So, no doubt, you'll
want to teach your students how to create multimedia presentations
using PowerPoint. Before you get your students all excited about funky
animations and nifty sound effects, you'll have to equip them with a
few PowerPoint essentials.
First and foremost, you have to talk the talk. Introduce your students
to PowerPoint vocabulary by doing a live demonstration of all the
different terms you will be using. Explain the difference between a
slide and an object. Show how a transition is a part of a slide show.
And just to make sure everyone is on the same wavelength, follow-up
your demonstration with a worksheet

20. PowerPoint comes with many toolbars-fifteen of them, to be exact. Don't
worry about introducing your students to all of them. Concentrate on the
four main toolbars that appear when you first open the program.
You might want to consider introducing the toolbars one at a time. To
start, you can hide all of the toolbars. When your students need to
format text or add graphics, show them how to add the appropriate
toolbar and teach them the function of each button.
The toolbar-by-toolbar approach sounds radical, but what better way to
prevent your students from clicking every button in sight. Teaching
PowerPoint one toolbar at a time also keeps your students focused and
gives you a nice, systematic way of introducing the program's features
and functions.

21. Before you introduce the Office Assistant to your students, consider
whether it will be beneficial to them. Will your students be able to read
and comprehend the words in Office Assistant. Can they navigate
through the Help files without your assistance? Do you have enough class
time to let students explore this feature? Will your students become as
addicted to animating with the Office Assistant as you are?
Note: If you haven't discovered this yet, hold your mouse over the Office Assistant and click your "right" mouse
button. Choose Animate from the pop-up menu and be prepared for a surprise.
Take the Quick Quiz to
test your knowledge!

22. UNIT 1: Power Point Basics

23. Tool bars can be floating or docked.
TRUE
FALSE
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Quiz Tutorial

24. Tool bars can be floating or docked.
TRUE
FALSE
That is correct!

25. Tool bars can be floating or docked.
TRUE
FALSE
The correct answer is TRUE.

26. Which of the following is NOT a transition?
Fade
Dissolve
Align
Wipe

27. Which of the following is NOT a transition?
Fade
Dissolve
Align
Wipe
You are right!

28. Which of the following is NOT a transition?
Fade
Dissolve
Align
Wipe
The correct answer is Align. Align is used to
align objects or text, not used as an effect for
ending or beginning a slide.

29. How many tool bars are included with Power Point?
10
15
2
18

30. How many tool bars are included with Power Point?
10
15
2
18
Yes, that is the correct answer.

31. How many tool bars are included with Power Point?
10
15
2
18
The correct answer is 15.

32. Office Assistant is used to
Help you perform tasks within Power Point
Make copies for you
Answer your phone calls
Reply to your emails

33. Office Assistant is used to
Help you perform tasks within Power Point
Make copies for you
Answer your phone calls
Reply to your emails
Yes, that is right.

34. Office Assistant is used to
Help you perform tasks within Power Point
Make copies for you
Answer your phone calls
Reply to your emails
It would be nice if it could make copies, answer
your phone and email but it is just helps to answer
questions on how to perform certain tasks.

35. Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as
clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips is
considered an object.
TRUE
FALSE

36. Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as
clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips is
considered an object.
TRUE
FALSE
That is correct!

37. Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as
clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips is
considered an object.
TRUE
FALSE
The answer is TRUE.

38. You have successfully completed the Quick Quiz!