PowerPoint 3. In the search for clips blank at the top of the
clipart window, type in what you are looking
PowerPoint Window for.
PowerPoint Introduction and Answer Key 4. Scroll through the options that appear and click
6th grade Example Topic/6th Slide Planning Sheet once on the picture you want.
7th grade Example Topic/7th Slide Planning Sheet 5. Choose the first tool in the list that pops up,
8th grade Example Topic/8th Slide Planning Sheet insert clip.
6. The clipart gallery window should close.
What students need to bring to the lab:
7. Your clipart can be repositioned and resized just
Labeled PowerPoint Window
like your text boxes(text place holders) by using
Completed Slide Planning Sheet (storyboard).
the outside border and corner handles.
Checklist 6 (to be used before they print).
8. (You can insert clipart on any slide, even if you
Checklist 7
didn't choose the AutoLayout with the picture on
Checklist 8
it, by choosing Insert/Picture/ClipArt. You
See checklists for requirements for each grade level. will have to close the clipart gallery window
after you have inserted your picture. It doesn't
Getting Started close by itself when you go into it this way.)
1. Start Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Select Blank Presentation. To change the background of your slide
3. Select the first slide from the AutoLayout 1. Choose Format/Background
options. 2. Choose More Colors or Fill Effects to choose
4. (This will be your title slide. The default view is the option you want under the Background Fill
Normal—you can check this by choosing section of the window that appears.
View/Normal.) 3. Choose Apply to apply just to this one slide or
5. Click in the text boxes (text place holders) to Choose Apply to All to apply this option to all
type in them. of the slides in your presentation.
6. Use your formatting tools to change the font,
font size, style, and alignment of text. To add a transition and a build to each slide
1. (A transition is how the slide moves from one
7. Click and hold on the outside border of the box
slide to the next. A build is how each bulleted
and drag to reposition it on the slide.
point flies in.)
8. Click, hold, and drag on a corner handle of a text
2. Choose View/Slide Sorter.
box to resize it.
3. Select a slide by clicking once on it.
Save your presentation according to the teacher’s 4. On the slide sorter toolbar, right above the
instruction. slides, where it says "No transition," click the
drop down arrow and choose a transition.
To insert new slides 5. Click the drop down arrow beside "No Effect"
1. Insert/New Slide and choose a build effect for your text.
2. Choose the one you want from the AutoLayout. 6. Repeat for each slide.
(The second slide with the bullets is the typical 7. Choose View/Normal to get back to your
body slide of a presentation. Choose the slide previous view.
with the clipart on one side of it and the bullets
on the other side of the slide if you plan to add To add and format AutoShapes
clipart to the slide.) 1. Click On the AutoShapes dropdown arrow on
3. Click to type in the title text box. the drawing toolbar and select your shape.
4. Click to type in the bulleted text box. Every 2. Move your mouse to your slide, click, hold, and
time you press enter, you will get a new bullet drag out your shape.
for your next point. 3. You can use the fill and line color tools to
format your shape.
Hint: Type information in short outline points or
phrases. Do not type paragraphs in PowerPoint. To add a picture from a diskette (that you took with
a digital camera or scanned and saved to the diskette)
To insert clipart 1. Choose Insert/Picture from file
1. Choose the AutoLayout that has the clipart on it 2. Choose the diskette drive and double click the
by going to Insert/New Slide. picture file.
2. Double click on the picture and the clipart 3. You can resize and reposition it just like clipart.
gallery will open.
To scan a picture and insert it into your presentation 2. Choose a movie clip by clicking on it once and
1. Log in to the computer beside the scanner. then clicking the first tool that pops up (insert
2. Double click the Scanner icon. clip).
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to start a new
scan and capture the picture. To advance your slide show automatically (without
4. Save As the picture as a .jpg file according to clicking the mouse)
1. Choose Slide Show/Slide Transition
the teacher’s instruction. Be sure to name it
2. Choose the Advance Automatically After option
something you will recognize later.
and set the time.
To format pictures and or clipart Choose Apply to All.
1. Click once on the picture you inserted on your 3. Here, you can also add a sound to your
slide. transition, and you can add a transition to all
2. The picture toolbar will appear. slides at one time if you want the same transition
3. You can use this toolbar to lighten, watermark, on all slides.
crop, and recolor pictures. If you don't see your
To set up your show to play continuously looping
picture toolbar, you can choose
over and over
View/Toolbar/Picture and it will appear.
1. Choose Slide Show/Set up Show
To add custom animation (and sound) 2. Choose Loop Continuously until 'Esc' (This
1. You would want to do this if you wanted your means you push the escape key to get it to stop.)
title text box or picture to animate or if you 3. And choose Using Timings if present (which
wanted to choose some special options when they will be present if you followed the
your body text builds. instructions under "To advance your slideshow
2. Choose Slide Show/Custom Animation. automatically".
3. Check to Animate Slide Objects.
4. Select the Order and Timing tab to change To play your slide show
1. Move to the first slide in your show.
which object animate first.
2. Select View/Slide Show.
5. Select the entry animation effect and direction
3. If you have automatic timings, it will play.
and sound (if you want).
4. If you don't, click your mouse or your right arrow
6. You can also choose to dim the previous point in key, and it will play.
this tab and choose to introduce text word by
word or letter by letter. How to use your Slide Master
1. Choose View/Master/Slide Master
To add sound to your slide (not attached to an 2. Whatever changes you make here to text, text
animation) place holders, or backgrounds will be made to
1. Insert/Movies and Sounds all slides.
2. Choose one of the following: 3. To get back to the normal view, choose
Sound from Gallery (provided with Ppt) View/Normal.
Sound from file (Public drive, sound folder-if
your teacher has placed a folder with sounds in To save your PowerPoint
it on the public drive for your use.) 1. File/Save
Play a CD 2. Choose the drop down arrow beside save in.
Record a sound (you can use the microphone 3. Save according to your teacher’s instruction.
and record your voice) Printing Options
To make a long sound clip play throughout the 1. To print full page slides 1 per page,
presentation 2. Choose File/Print
1. Insert your sound clip on slide 1. 3. Print What? Slides. OK.
2. While on slide 1, choose SlideShow/Custom 4. To print several slides per page,
Animation. 5. File/Print
3. Change the animation order so the sound is first. 6. Print What? Handouts. Choose the number per
4. Choose the MultiMedia tab. Choose continue page you want. OK. (If you choose 3 per page, it
slideshow and stop after the total number of will give you the slide to the left and lines to the
slides you have in your presentation. right of the slide for your audience to take
5. Choose loop continuously. notes.)
7. To print just the outline view,
To add an animation/movie clip 8. File/Print. Print What? Outline. OK.
1. Insert/Movies and Sounds/Movies From Gallery