animating and jazzing up power point
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•Under Format choose Background- then choose Fill Effects-Choose picture- then choose a picture that makes a nice background
Inserting Backgrounds from Digital Pictures
Finding Additional Backgrounds from the Internet
http://www.bellsnwhistles.com has many backgrounds and they
are all free! Backgrounds with a jpeg file are the best.
This site lists free background sites http://desktopPublishing.com/backg-free.html
Presenters University http://presentersuniversity.com
Slide Transitions
Click on Slide Show on the menu bar and pull down to slide transition
Choose a transition. You can apply a transition between each slide. You can also apply the same transition to all slides at the same time.
This is where you choose how to advance by mouse click or automatically with a timing inserted. (if you loop your show you need to choose the automatic timing and choose a timing.
Choose a sound if you want sounds between slides.
How to use Custom Animation Under Slide Show on the Menu Bar select Custom
Animation Select the text and animation. You can change the
order of graphics and text at this screen. You can select timings It has a nice preview option so you an adjust it as you
are working
Running the Show
Under Slide Show select set up show. Select how you would like to run your show. You can loop it continuously You can choose to manually run the show or set
timings for each slide. You choose timings under Slide Transition.
Notes Page
Under View on the menu bar select notes page Each slide will then have a notes section that only you
will see. Type any notes that you want to help you with your presentation.
You can also select speaker notes under view and
type notes to yourself
Functions under View on the Menu Bar You can select Black and White to get a gray scale
effect for printing or viewing your slides in black and white.
You can create templates for future slide shows using the slide master and title master. They allow you to select the font and graphics that you would like to have on every slide. It keeps your slides uniform.
Selecting toolbars, rulers and guide will let you choose whether or not to have certain toolbars open. Rulers and Guide will allow you to center text and graphics using the ruler.
How to use Word Art
Click on the tipped A on the bottom of the screen on the Draw toolbar
or Insert from the menu bar and then Picture Word Art Type the text in the box and click OK If you click on the Word Art after it is on your screen a
menu bar will come up. You can make changes to your Word Art You can change the color, the shape or rotate it
How to place a box around your text
Create a text box first Select a line style
Choose a line color (these can both be found on the lower menu bar)
You can also choose a fill color You can also do the same thing under format on the
menu bar and select color and lines
How to insert AutoShapes
From the insert menu choose picture Then choose AutoShapes You can also choose AutoShapes from the drawing
tool bar in the lower left hand corner To change the shape, color or size, double click on
the shape and the format shape menu will pop up.
Adding Shadowing to an Object Select an object by clicking on it with the mouse On the menu bar in the lower right hand corner choose
the square from the draw menu and choose a shadowing.
You can get really fancy and choose 3D also which is also on the drawing tool bar.
You can also choose different colors for the
shadowing. Just double click on the object and a menu will appear. Choose the color option.
Congratulations! You are all doing a great job and hopefully having fun too.
This is an AutoShape with text typed on top of it. If you create a text box first and type and then insert an AutoShape your text will disappear. You will have to click on the shape and then Draw from the tool bar and then Order and select send to back. Your text will appear
How to use the Pointer and Pen When you are using the Show option if you right click
on your mouse you will bring up a toolbar with a number of options.
You can select a pen and even change the color of the pen
You can write on the screen and it is not permanent You can choose to blacken your screen and then write
also. You can choose “go” to go to another slide. You can choose meeting notes to write down
something to remember later.
How to insert sound
Select insert from menu bar. Choose a saved sound file or one from the gallery if the sound files have been installed
You can play a CD throughout your presentation. You can also include your own narration if you have a
sound card and microphone
Playing a CD Throughout a Presentation
•Select the Play CD Audio Track option from the Movies and Sounds submenu from the Insert menu.
•Select the Tracks for which you want
to Start and End
•Click OK
Open up Custom Animation under Slide Show
Then double click on the Media tab
You most likely will want to choose Start Playing from Beginning
Then Stop Playing after
____ slides
Under timing you may either choose whether to start the music on a mouse click or to start after however many seconds after the slide appears.
Free Music Files on the Web
http://www.wavsource.com http://www.musicloops.com/ http://wavcentral.com http://www.dailywav.com/ http://www.soundrangers.com/
Edison: Mary had a little lamb
Stephen HawkingTaking Tutorials
Making a Sound Play Throughout the Slideshow
•Insert Sound from file under the Insert menu
•Drag the Sound icon off of the slide page
•With the Sound icon still selected, select Custom Animation from the Slide Show menu.
•Select the bullet in front of Continue slide show
•Select after how many slides you want it to Stop playing
•Click on OK to close this window.
Making a Graphic a Sound Button
Select the object so the handlebars are showing
Under Slide Show on the menu bar click on Action Settings
Then select Play Sound.
Find sound on “other sound” from a file and click OK
When you go to a full screen and click on the object it will play the sound
How To Insert Video
Pull down the Insert menu to Movies and Sounds
•From Gallery
•Videos prepackaged with PowerPoint
•From File
•Videos from CDs
•Videos downloaded from web
•“Homemade” videos on your hard drive
Videos on the Web
Altavista Video Searchhttp://www.altavista.com
Quicktime Educationhttp://www.ali.apple.com/
Imagine the Universehttp://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/movies/archive.html
SFU Media Indexhttp://www.sfu.ca/media-lab/vidindex2.html
NASA Multimedia Libraryhttp://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
CNNhttp://www.cnn.com
Acceptable Video Formats
Quicktime (or MoviePlayer) moviesQuicktime VR moviesMPEG videosAudio Video Interleave (AVI) filesNote: All inserted movies are linked to your
presentation. If you show your presentation on a different computer, remember to also copy the movie file when you copy the presentation. If you don’t you will just have a picture of the poster frame of the movie.
A Great PowerPoint Tutorial on the Internet
Go to PowerPoint in the Classroom for a wonderful tutorial at http://www.actden.com/pp