This document provides a brief tutorial on using PowerPoint. It outlines how to add and format slides, apply templates and slide designs, set up slide shows with animations and transitions, rehearse timings, and change the slide order. The goal is to teach the main features of PowerPoint to help users impress audiences with their presentations.

1. Welcome to PowerPoint
A brief tutorial on using the
program

2. Add a new slide
• Click on “Insert” and “New Slide” and write
in a couple of lines (your name, what and
where you teach)
• You can find your way around the
presentation by clicking on the numbered
slides on the left of the screen

3. Special layouts
• now add another slide by clicking on
“Insert” “New Slide” and then clicking on
one of the text or content layouts to the
right of this
• If you wish, practise adding a picture by
finding one on the web (Google Images),
right clicking and copying, than right
clicking and pasting into your slide

4. Presentation
• Highlight this heading and change the
font, colour and size by clicking on
“Format” and then “Font”
• Click on “Format” and then “Background”
and then the arrow beneath the main box
• Change the background colour and fill
effect (go to “more colours”). In “Fill
Effects” use the tabs to get a textured
background

5. Templates
• Click on “Format” and “Slide design”
• Preview a few of the prepared slide
designs by clicking on them
• You can apply a design template to all
your slides, or format each one individually
(as in previous slide)

6. Setting up your slide show
• Click on “Slide Show” and “Animation
Schemes”
• Use the scroll arrow to view options and
choose an effect
• Click on “Apply to all slides”
• Now click on “Slide Show” and “View
Show” to see the effect

7. Custom animation
• Click on “Slide show” and “Custom
animation”
• Select and element of the slide, then click
“Add Effect” to add animation. Try “Motion
Paths” for some real excitement!

8. Slide Transition
• Click on “Slide Show” and “Slide
Transition” and choose an effect
• Click on “Slide Show” and “View Show” to
look at it

9. Rehearse timings
• Imagining you want your show to run
automatically, click on “Slide Show” and
“Rehearse Timings”
• Then just click every time you want it to
advance. The program will record your timings
and ask you to confirm that is what you want at
the end
• Then click on “Slide Show” and “Set up show”
and select “Loop continuously until escape”
• View your show

10. Different slide views
• Now click on the “thumbnail” slide view on
the bottom left of the screen to see an
overview
• You can hold down “Control” and click on
some of the slides or select all and make
changes to their format or animation

11. Changing slide order
• In the usual view, try clicking and dragging
the overview slides to the left of this in
order to change slide order

12. Congratulations!
• You have mastered the main features of
PowerPoint and are ready to impress
friends, colleagues, and most of all, your
students!