How To Do PowerPoint

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How To Do PowerPoint

• By
• Brian Wechsler

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Step One

• Open PowerPoint in the Microsoft Office 98 folder
  under the Hard Drive!
  
• It will open up and look like this!

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Step Two

• Choose which one you want!
• AutoContent Wizard walks you through a making of
  your PowerPoint.
  
• Template lets you choose which background you
  want
  
• Blank Presentation is just what it says. This
  will let you choose everything that you want!

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Step Three

• Choose Blank Presentation
• An Auto Layout Screen Will Come up!
• Choose one

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Step Four

• Start Typing
• Click on Click Here to Type
• For a New Slide click on New Slide on the Common
  Tasks window or go under Insert/New Slide!
  
• Need to change your layout, go under Common Tasks
  to Slide Layout or under Format to Slide Layout
  !
  
• Need to apply a design, go under Common Tasks to
  Apply Design or under Format to Apply Design

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Step Five

• Adding Pictures
• Pick the new slide that has the little guy
  picture on it.
  
• Double Click on the picture.
• Find the picture you want and press the Insert
  Button!

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Adding Pictures Continued

• Or Insert a Text Box by going under Insert down
  to Text Box!
  
• Draw a text box on your slide!
• Click inside your text box!
• Go to Insert down to Picture!

• If you want Clip Art, go over to Clip Art!
• Then find the one you want and press insert!
• If you want a photo, go over to From File!
• Find the picture that you want, and insert!

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Step Six

• Set up your FUN STUFF
• Go to Slide Show
• Down to Custom Animation
• A screen like this will appear

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Step Seven

• Click on the Timing tab.
• Choose which Object from Timing you want first.
  There will be a box around it.
  
• Click the Animate button.

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Step Eight

• Click on the Effects tab.
• Where it says no effect, choose which one you
  want.
  
• Choose a sound if you want.

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Effects Continued

• Decide if you want it all at once or a little at
  a time!
  
• Grouped by Level 5 lets you introduce per
  bullets.
  
• Remember that you can preview it by clicking on
  the Preview button

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Step Nine

• View your Presentation
• On the bottom of the screen there is a tool bar
  that looks like this.
  
• The card one is to view the card your on
• The outline view is to see your presentation in
  an outline view
  
• The four little cards are to see your
  presentation in a layout form
  
• The one with a card with some lines is to write
  what you want to say
  
• And the little desk one is to run your
  presentation
  
• If you are running your presentation, press the
  ESC to stop it.

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Step Ten

• Adding Movies or Sounds!
• Choose the slide that you want. If it is not the
  one with the movie thing on it, insert a Text Box.

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Adding Movies or Sounds

• Go to Insert, down to Movies and Sounds!
• Choose the movie or sound selection that you want!

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If you are going from a CD!

• Insert your CD
• Go down to Play Audio CD Track!
• Choose which song and how much of the song you
  want.
  
• Then go to Custom Animation under Slide Show!
• To the Play Settings Tab
• Look for the audio one.
• And put in the settings that you want!

Remember you will need the CD for your
presentation!
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Step 11

• Changing a design for one or all of your cards
• Go to Format, down to Apply Design
• Choose the one you want
• This is what it looks like

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Or

• If you dont want a design, go to Format, down to
  Background.
  
• Choose the little bar
• Go to the Fill Effects tab
• Choose the Texture Tab
• Choose the one you want and press OK.

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Step 12 Making Pop Ups
1. Make your chart with all of the basics that
you want on it. 2. Click on the first area that
you want to enlarge (1)! 3. Do a Copy and a Pa
ste of this area. 4. Enlarge the area that you
want to pop up (2). 5. Make sure that the enlarg
ed area is on top of the original one.
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Under Slide Show, go to Custom Animation.
Decide how you want your pop up to come in to
your presentation (animate it). Do something
that appears or comes in. Down on After Animati
on, make it say, Hide on Next Mouse Click.
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Step Thirteen HyperLinks

• Highlight item that you want to link to other
  page, program, or Internet.
  
• Go to Insert, down to Hyperlink.

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• Link to file or URL
• This gives you the option to go to a file
  (example a Microsoft Word Document) or a Web
  Page.
  
• Named location in file (optional)
• This lets you link to a page or section within
  your PowerPoint.
  
• Example of a Named location

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Step Fourteen

• Play and have fun!
• If you need help, Go to Help down to Microsoft
  PowerPoint Help! This will answer any questions
  that you may have!
  
• Remember to stop your presentation at any time,
  Press the ESC key!