Short Primer on Power Point Using MS Office 2003

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Short Primer on Power PointUsing MS Office 2003

• So I have this black-and-white presentation. Now
  what?
• by Dan Gilbert
• Associate Professor, Business Administration
• Tennessee Wesleyan College

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Formatting a Slide Design

• From the Format menu, select Slide Design.
• The Slide Designs available to you will show in
  the right navigation window.
• Select one and see how the design fits with your
  presentation, audience, material.
• Experiment with a few designs.

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Insert a New Slide

• From the Insert menu, select New Slide.
• To change from the default style to a different
  one, highlight the layout you want from the right
  navigation window.
• Close the right navigation window.

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Adding Clip Art

• From the Insert menu, select Picture.
• Select Clip Art.
• Type in a search term.
• For example, meetings.
• Double click the image to insert it.
• You may have to adjust your text box after the
  image is inserted.
• Too much clip art in a business presentation may
  be considered inappropriate.

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Inserting a Picture from a File

• From the Insert menu, select Picture.
• Select From File.
• Find the directory and file name where the
  picture is found.
• Double click on the file name of the picture.
• Drag the picture to the preferred location.
• Right click on the picture to format it, crop it,
  change it.

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Pasting a Graph from Excel

• With Excel open, click on the desired graph.
• Select copy from the Standard toolbar.
• Switch to the Power Point Slide where you want
  the graph to be displayed.
• Select paste from the Standard toolbar.
• Adjust the size of the graph by dragging the
  corner.

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Adding Animations

• Open the slide on which the animation is the
  occur.
• Select Slide Show, then Custom Animations.
• Custom Animation opens in the right navigation
  window.
• Highlight the text box, graph or image you want
  to animate.
• Select Add Effect from the Custom Animation
  Window.
• Select Entrance. Select the desired effect.
• Add more effects by highlighted additional text
  boxes, images, etc.
• Experiment to see what the different entrance
  effects do.

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Questions?

• What else do you need to know?