This document is a step-by-step guide for practicing PowerPoint skills, covering tasks such as saving files, editing slides, inserting and formatting images and charts, and managing slide masters. It explains the use of design templates, creating transparent GIFs, and advanced animation techniques. Additionally, it includes instructions for setting up autoplay and looping presentations for environments like kiosks or trade shows.

1. PowerPoint Practice Exercise
1. Save this file on your computer.
2. Open this file in PowerPoint
3. Edit each slide according to the instructions
provided in the slides in order to learn the skills
required for assignment 4.

2. Adding and Deleting Slides
• Slides are added to a presentation by opening the Insert
menu above and clicking New Slide. You might also use
the New Slide button on the toolbar if it is available.
• New slides are inserted following the current slide.
Notice the current slide is highlighted in the left pane.
• Slides are deleted by selecting them in the left pane and
pressing the Delete key to delete it.
• Try inserting a slide. After inserting a slide progress over
the new slide to the next slide by either clicking it in the
left pane or pressing the PgDn key.

3. Slide Formats: Clip Art
• Open the Format menu and select Slide Layout. Click
the slide format named Title, Text & Clip Art (under
Other Layouts) to Apply it to this slide
• Insert a Clip Art image of your choice
• Progress to the next slide

4. Slide Formats: Chart
• Apply the slide format named Title, Text & Chart
to this slide.
• Click the chart button and edit the data in the
chart table however you like.
• Close the chart table to complete the chart
insertion.
• Progress to the next slide

5. Slide Formats: Organizational
Chart
• Use the Insert menu to Insert a New Slide
– select the Organizational Chart format.
• Add some data to the chart and
experiment with the chart tool then
progress to the next slide.

6. Applying a Design Template
• Select Format/Slide Design. Select a
design of your choice and apply it to the
presentation by clicking the arrow bar next
to the slide of your choice and clicking
Apply to All Slides
• Select Color Schemes, select a color
scheme of your choice, and Apply to All
Slides Now we’re crankin’!!

7. Acquiring Graphics from the Web
• Open your Web browser and go to
http://www.fsu.edu/%7Eunicomm/pages/seal_
• Right-click and save the FSU Seal located
in the upper left corner of the page.
• We’ll use this graphic later in the exercise.

8. Transparent GIFs
• GIF images can be edited to have a transparent
background to easily blend with other images and
backgrounds.
Transparent
GIF image
Standard
GIF image
No action required on this slide.
Clipart is
typically
transparent
Clipart is
typically
transparent
• Graphics programs such as Paint Shop Pro,
Fireworks, and Illustrator, can create transparent
GIF images from standard GIF images.
• Free Web tools are also available: http://
stuff.mit.edu/tweb/map.html

9. Editing the Slide Master
• View the Slide Master by clicking View then
Master then Slide Master
• Add your name to the footer
• Insert the FSU Seal image that you saved earlier
in the upper right corner of the Slide Master
• Resize the Seal to make it very small and
unobtrusive.
• Click “Close Master View” on the Slide Master
View toolbar.
• Observe the results on all slides
Changes made to Slide Masters effect all slides of that type
in the presentation.

10. Editing Object Properties:
Fill Effects
• Click the circle below to select it
• Double-click the circle to view its properties
• Click the arrow to open the Color pallet and select Fill Effects
• Click the option for Two colors, and pick the colors
• Click From center
• Click OK
• For Line Color click No Line
• Click OK

11. Editing Object Properties:
Transparency
• Click the red circle below to select it
• Double-click the red circle to view its
properties
• Use the transarency slides to set the color
transparency to 50%
• Click OK

12. Using the Drawing Toolbar
• Use the options on the Drawing toolbar to
adjust the following attributes of the red
circle:
– Fill Color
– Line color
– Line Style
– Shadow Style
– 3-D Style

13. Adding Text to Shapes
• Select the red circle below and type the word
HELLO.
• Click outside the circle to exit edit mode.
• Select the circle again and adjust the Font Color
using the Drawing toolbar.
• Use the Edit toolbar to change the font to Comic
Sans MS, size 24, bold

14. Adding a Textbox and
Arranging Objects
• Click Text Box on the Drawing Toolbar then click
to the left of the circles below and type HELLO.
• Use the mouse to select the text then use the
Editing toolbar to change it to size 54.
• Click and drag the textbox so that HELLO is
placed over the two circles.

15. Selecting Groups of Objects
• So far, we have selected and operated on one object at a time.
Multiple objects can be selected at once either by holding shift and
clicking each object, or by clicking and dragging the mouse pointer
over all desired objects.
• Using the Drawing toolbar, insert four AutoShapes below, then try
selecting them together by using both methods described above.
• While all four objects are selected, add a shadow effect using the
Shadow tool on the drawing toolbar.

16. Setting Order and Groupings
• Insert a square next to the circle below by clicking the Rectangle tool button
on the Drawing toolbar (bottom of display) then clicking and dragging on the
slide.
• Click and drag the square to move it so that it is partially covering the circle.
• Right-click the circle and choose Order/Bring to Front
• Select both the circle and square by holding the shift key and clicking them
both one after the other
• Click Draw on the Drawing toolbar, then choose Group.
• Click and drag the figures to see that they are now grouped together as one
object.

17. Lines, Arrows, & WordArt
• Experiment with the line, arrow, and WordArt buttons on the
Drawing toolbar.

18. Rotating and Animating Objects
• Rotate the star by selecting it, and clicking and dragging the green
handle on the star.
• Select both the moon and star and group them together as one
object
• With the grouped objects selected open the Slide Show menu, click
Custom Animation
• Click Add Effect, then Entrance, and select an animation effect (Fly
In, Stretch, Wipe, etc).
• Try out the animation by clicking the button on the bottom labeled
Slide show (then exit the show by pressing the Esc key).

19. Advanced Animation:
Effect Options
• Use the Custom Animation options to Add an
Effect to this bulleted list so that each bulleted
item Flies In one at a time with each mouse
click.
• Click the arrow button next to the animation
setting for this text to access the Effect Options.
In the After Animation settings select a light
color.
• Use the Slide show button to view the effect.

20. Advanced Animation: Timing
• Using the Custom Animation pane
– Set an animation for this bulleted list so that each 1st
and 2nd
bullet
level Appear one at a time with each mouse click (you will need
to change Group Text settings in Effect Options).
– Set the below picture objects to Fly In one after the other, one
from the left and the other from the right, automaticcaly (without
clicking the mouse) with a 1 second delay on each (you will need
to change the Direction and Timing settings in Effect Options)

21. Advanced Animation:
Fades and Timing
• Set the below images so that the one on the
left dissolves in, pauses for two seconds, then
disappears as the second dissolves in. Set it
so it all happens automatically.

22. Slide Transitions
• Select Slide Show/Slide Transition. Try out the
various transition effects.
• Experiment with Speed and Sound
• Select Random Transition and Apply to All
slides.

23. Setting Up AutoPlay
• You can set the timings for progressing through a
presentation by selecting Slide Show/Rehearse Timings.
• Run the show at the pace that you feel is appropriate,
clicking the mouse to progress through all slides.
PowerPoint will record your timings for use in auto-
playing the presentation.
• Save the timings when you are finished.
• Upon exit, your slideshow will be displayed in Slide
Sorter view. Note the timings associated with each slide.
• Double-click this slide to return to Normal View.
• Select View/Slide Show to auto-play this presentation.

24. Setting Up AutoPlay
• For some environments, such as a public kiosk
or trade show, you may wish to have your
automated slide show loop back to the beginning
when it concludes. To set your presentation to
loop:
– Select Slide Show/Set Up Show
– Check the box by Loop continuously until “Esc”
– Click OK
• Try it out on this presentation.