Transcript A PowerPoint about…

A PowerPoint about…
By Heather Jones
What is PowerPoint?
“PowerPoint is a presentation
software program that is part of
the Microsoft Office package.”
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointtipsandfaqs/f/ppt_overview.htm
How can I use PowerPoint?
There are so many ways
to utilize PowerPoint. I
will review some of the
basic but fun ways to
enhance a presentation in
PowerPoint.
What can you do?
Add fun animations to text in
presentation.
Insert pictures, sound and movies.
To add animation to your text…
Click on the animations tab.
Custom Animations.
Add Effect
Choose one…
Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, or Motion Path
When you choose your animation, Microsoft has a
great feature that will preview the action before you
commit to the effect.
To enhance the animation by word or letter click on
the arrow to the right of the animation and choose
your preferences.
To add backgrounds to slide…
Right click on mouse
Format background…
Now you can choose what you
would like your background to be.
Your choices include a solid,
gradient, picture or text filled.
To insert pictures…
Insert tab
Choose either picture (from file), or clip art.
For a file picture you look either in your pictures
folder or desktop, where ever you keep pictures.
Clip art will show a window to the right of your
screen. Simply type in a keyword for what you are
looking for and then click on the picture you want.
To insert sounds or movies…
This is very similar inserting pictures. You
click on what you need to insert whether
it’s a clip or one song from a CD. The
most important thing for you to do is
make sure that whatever file you use put
it in a folder and link it from that folder.
If you don’t it will not play.
To insert music into a PowerPoint follow the
instructions from these websites:
http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoi
nt_music.htm
or
http://www1.towson.edu/adminfinance/OTS/Tr
aining/documentation/PowerPoint%202003/P
owerPoint_2003_Adding-Music.pdf
You can also record…
Click the slide show tab
Record Narration button
Make sure you attach a microphone
for a clear sound.
What to do when you don’t
know how?
The greatest asset to learning PowerPoint is
exploring or Google. Most of the tricks and
special effects I have learned I have
researched on the Internet. For example,
the Star Wars type introduction you saw at
the beginning was something I found by
Googling “Star Wars Credits”.
Credits
I would like to give credit to George Lucas
for coming up with the wonderful words,
“In a galaxy far, far away.”
I would also like it known that the
backgrounds used in this PowerPoint were
pictures and backgrounds I have collected
over the years. They have come from
Google and Microsoft clip art. I do not take
credit for making or taking these pictures.