POWER POINT PRESENTATION

Used to create simple multimedia presentation about the topic of your choice
TIPS:
1. Plan content of your presentation
-prepare a story board to establish general content and design
2. Font size should be visible enough
3. Use less transition
4. Text should be up to 7 words / line and 7 lines / slide
5. Give presentation a consistent look
6. Special effects should be used moderately

EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL EFFECTS:

transitions
animations
These are used only to emphasize a point

HOW TO START:
1. Open computer
programs
microsoft power point
2. Click blank presentation
ok
3. Choose title slide
ok
4. Click inside the click to add title text box
type title of presentation
5. Click inside the click to add sub title text box and type your name.
6. Click after the last letter of the text in the outline pane
start creating your outline
press enter
7. To create a new slide
click insert
new slide

FORMATTING SLIDES
1. After the text has been added in the outline pane, you may format the font
style, color, and size.
2. Select the text you wish to format, use the formatting toolbar to change font or
from the format menu select font.
3. To apply a background theme, from the format menu, select apply
design template.
4. Click on a design and it will appear in the preview window
5. Once you have selected a design, click apply, the design will appear
on all slides.
6. To change the color scheme of a design, from the format menu, select
slide color scheme, click custom tab.
 7. Choose the color scheme you want to change.
8. Click change color
9. Click the standard tab for standard colors or the custom tab to create
your own color
10. Select a color and click ok
11. Click apply to all or apply if you want only the current slide to be
Affected

INSERTING CLIP ART:

1. From the insert menu, select picture, then choose clip art
2. From the pictures tab, click on a category icon or
3. Click in the search for clips box, type a word that describes what you are
looking and press enter
4. Click once on the image you wish to insert. A pop up menu will appear.
Click on the top button to insert the image.
Or click copy and click paste
5. Click anywhere on the page to bring it to the forefront while
leaving the insert clip art dialog box open for later use.

SAVING PRESENTATION:
1. From file menu, click save
2. In the save bar, locate program folder and click
3. Name your file
4. Click save

Note: always save again if you make changes to your presentation.

VIEWING THE PRESENTATION:

1. Click slide show menu, click view show
2. To end slide show anytime, press the esc key

ENHANCING PRESENTATION:
1. Slide transition
Choose slide transition. Click drop down arrow next to no transition, scroll to
select your choice. If you want to add sound effects, click the dropdown arrow of
sound and select your choice.
2. Custom animation
Go to slide you want to animate. From slide show menu, click on custom
animation.
3. Record narration
From slide show menu, select record narration
4. Speaker notes
Click in the notes pane and type your notes in the click to add notes box for the
current slide.
5. Rehearse timings
From slide show menu, click rehearse timings. Click next arrow to go to next
slide. You can view the timings for each slide in the slide sorter view.
6. Slide sorter
To rearrange order of slides, from view menu, select slide sorter, just click and
drag a slide to where you want it to go.

TIPS:
Too many sounds and images can defract from the purpose of the presentation.
Save your work frequently

ADDING A BACKGROUND DESIGN:

1. From view menu, select normal view
2. From format menu, select apply design template.
3. Select a background theme, click apply
4. To change the color scheme, from the format menu, select slide color
scheme
5. Click apply to all to change the color scheme or cancel to exit the window

TIP:
Use light background for overhead transparencies

ADDING GRAPHICS FROM CLIP ART:

1. From the insert menu, select picture,
choose clip art
2. Click category, choose image
3. Click image, click insert
4. To change color of clip art, click on image from the view menu, select
toolbars, click on picture, click recolor picture button on the toolbar.