PowerPoint presentations can be used to provide an overview of information in a creative but professional manner. Each slide should contain information that can be understood in less than a minute. The document provides instructions on how to perform basic PowerPoint tasks like adding slides, changing slide formats and designs, inserting and formatting pictures, adding sounds and movies, and including animations. Formatting options allow customizing colors, layouts, backgrounds, fonts, and effects. Help resources are available for any other questions.

1. PowerPoint Information

2. Basics
• PPT’s are
– used for an overview
of information.
– A helpful tool for
presentations
– Creative but
professional
– For each slide to be
read in less than a
minute.
• They are not
– Used the same as a
WORD document
and full paper format
– Supposed to use too
much information
– To be hard to read

3. Basics
• To add a new slide:
– Go to the insert tab, and click new slide
• To view as a slide show:
– Down at the bottom of the page, there are
5 little pictures, select the one that looks
like a screen.
– Or go to the “View” tab and select “View
Presentation.”

4. Formatting
• To change slide format:
– 1. Use the formatting palette (toolbars)
• This includes changing colors, text boxes,
borders, animation, etc.
– 2. In the format tab, select slide design,
layout, color scheme or background.
– To change background color, right click on
the background and select format
background.

5. Pictures
• To add pictures:
– To add clip art/pictures/etc, choose the
insert tab.
– If using clip art, choose ‘Picture’ then ‘Clip
Art.’
– If using a saved image from your computer,
choose ‘Picture” then ‘From File.’

6. Formatting Pictures
• After inserting a picture, you can:
– Change the brightness/ contrast
– Change the coloring
– Change the background (sometimes)
– Crop the picture
• This is all done in the Picture Tools tab, in the
Format section. (The picture must be
selected in order for this tab to show.)
• By right-clicking on the picture, there are
other formatting options.

7. Formatting Pictures
• Cropping:
– Choose crop
– Drag the edges to where you want to cut
• Change color:
– Choose the “recolor” button. You can
change to many different colors.
– Also in recolor is “Set Transparent Color”
which can take the white background out of
most pictures.

8. Formatting Pictures
• Picture Effects:
– You can add blurry edges and change the
look of pictures in this button.
• Location:
– You can put a picture behind text or in front
of text
– Do this by selecting the Bring to front/back/
etc button in the format tab.

9. Sounds
• To insert sounds or movies:
– Choose the ‘Insert’ tab again and choose
sounds from gallery. This will give you
sounds already loaded on the computer.
– For movies, follow same instructions and
choose ‘Movie’ instead.

10. Animations
• Animations are how the slides and
information on the slides become
visible.
– Example, slides can move in from the
right/left/center/top/etc.
– Information can zoom in separately instead
of all together.

11. Animations
• To add an animation to the slide:
– Go to Slide Transitions in the Slide Show tab.
– Choose which one you would like and preview.
• To add animation to text on a slide:
– Go to Slide Show tab and choose Custom/Preset
transitions
– Choose what you would like and preview.

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