This document provides a step-by-step guide for creating a PowerPoint presentation, including how to open the program, create a title page, select a design, and add new slides. It also explains how to insert pictures, add text descriptions, and apply animations to transitions. Finally, it demonstrates how to view the presentation as a slideshow.

1. Creating a Power Point
Lisa Vail
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2. Step 1
To open Power Point
select the icon at the
The icon bottom of the screen
looks like
this

3. You will get a
screen that
looks like this.
Select Blank
Presentation
The icon look
like this
Step 2

4. Your screen
should look like
this.
Click this box to
type your title.
Click on this
box to type a
Subtitle.
Step 3

5. At the top Left Click
the Design Tab
Step 4
A list of optional
designs will come
across the top of
your screen.
Select one or use the
drop box for more
options.

6. Select the design that you want by clicking
on it.

7. Now you have created a title page and
entered your title and subtitle. Then you
have chosen a design. Now it is time to
create more slides.

8. Click the Home Tab
at the top left of your
screen.
Step 5
Then click on the
new slide option in
the menu.
This is what the
icon looks like

9. If you click the top of the New Slide icon
Power Point will open a new slide for you.

10. If you click the bottom you will get a menu
of types of slides to add. Just select the type
that you want.

11. To add a picture to
your Power Point click
on the picture icon on
your slide.
Step 6
That icon looks like
this.

12. Then select the image you want from your
pictures.
Click on the picture to move
it to where you want it.
Click the sides and/or
corners to resize the picture.

13. Now click on the Title box at the top and add
text to describe your picture

14. To animate your slide show
Click the Transitions tab. That tab looks like this
Step 7

15. Then select the one that you want.
This will make your slides do neat things
when they appear on screen.

16. To view your Power Point as a slide show
Click the little projector screen image at
the bottom right of your screen.
That image looks
like this

17. You have created your first Power Point and
it will look like this.

18. In conclusion
 Now you have learned to;
 Create a Power Point
 Change the theme of the presentation
 Add text
 Add pictures
 Animate the transitions between screens
 How to view your Power Point in a slide show