How to use Power Point

It’s really not that hard,In fact, Power Point can be

fun!By: Gardner Reynolds

#1 Plan your Presentation… Before you open the

program, plan what you are going to do with pencil and paper.

You are going to do a 6 slide presentation lasting 5 minutes, so the first slide will be the main title.

What will the next 5 be?

Think about what you want your presentation to say…

Slides 2 through 6 would give more details about your subject.

Example: My Family – 2 – Your parents– 3 – Brothers and sisters– 4 – Grandparents– 5 – Aunts, uncles &

cousins– 6 – Your whole family at a

party

Once you have your plan, launch the program.

This the Power Point main work screen, first go to the Menu Bar and go“Format/Slide Design” to choose what your presentation will look like,

Choose one.

Next, choose the slide layout…

Choose one.Text or picture

or both!

Start with the title slide layout, then, when you are ready for slide#2, goTo “Insert, New Slide” and start your next slide. Do you want all text?Or text with a picture? Or a chart? This is where you choose.

Insert, New Slide

Then, keep going with your slides.

Let’s say you chose the layout with text and two pictures from “Clip Art” – one with a lady at a computer and one showing students working…

To put in “Clip Art”Insert, Picture, Clip Art

Choose one.

To put in a graphic (picture) from Clip Art, go to “Insert/Picture/Clip Art,” type in the kind of picture you want, when you see oneyou like, click on it to put in the Presentation.

Kind of picture

To add text…

Just click inside the text box and type in whatever you want to say…

If you want to do a bullet list like this one, just hit the Enter button and it will start a new bullet.

Click here

Bullet

If you want to get fancy, and add animations…

Here is where you can animations to make your text or your picturesFade-in, Fade-Out, Dance around and do all sorts of things.

To add animations…

Either right-click any object in the slide and tell the menu “Custom Animation,”Or go to the Menu Bar and go “Slide Show/Custom Animation” and you can makethe objects do whatever by pushing “Add Effect.” Experiment to see what works bestfor your presentation.

Slide Show

Right-click for menu

Add Effect

To see your show “for real…”

If you want to see what your presentation will look like when you give it,Go to “Slide Show/View Show” or push the little icon that looks like a screen.

Slide Show

Screen

One more last thing…

Use a floppy disk, a Jump Drive or a CD-R to put your presentation on, don’t put it on or CD-RW.

The reason is that some CD programs don’t work with all computers.