Introduction to PowerPoint

Tara DecMontgomery Lower Middle School

Industrial Technology Teacher

Main Objective: Creating a Slide• Inserting text

– Automatic text layout– Text boxes– WordArt

• Formatting text– Size, font, style, color

• Inserting pictures– ClipArt– Copy & paste from Internet– Images or pictures on file

• Manipulating text and images– Moving– Resizing

• Applying a background– Basic colors– Fill Effects

…and some other stuff• Inserting additional slides

– New slide– Duplicate slide

• Viewing slideshow

• More image manipulation– Group– Order– Altering characteristics

Introduction to PowerPoint

Tara DecMontgomery Lower Middle School

Industrial Technology Teacher

To obtain the various types of tool bars, click on View and then Toolbars. Next, click on the name of the

toolbar that you would like to view.

Ones that are already viewable from the screen

will have an orange box and check marked next to it.

Formatting Tool Bar

Font Font

Size

Bold

Italic

Underline

Align

Left

Center

Align

Right

Numbering Bullets

Increase

Font Size

Increase

Indent

Font

ColorDecrease

Indent

Rotate or flip images

Drawing Tool Bar

Line

Line w/ Arrow

Rectangle

Oval

Text

Box

Word Art

Insert

Diagram

Insert

ClipArt

Insert

Picture

Fill Color

Line Color Font

Color

Line

Style Dash

Style

Arrow

StyleShadow

Style

3-D

Style

Insert

Picture

More

Contrast

More

Bright

Less

Bright

Crop RotateLine Style

Recolor

Picture

Format

Picture

Magic

Wand

Reset

PictureCom-press

Less

Contrast

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