Back-to-School Night Presentations with Power Point
To open Power Point: click on the icon on the Office toolbar or click the start button, go to "programs", click on the Power Point icon.
After opening the program you will see a screen offering you three choices: Auto Content Wizard, Template or Blank Presentation. Click on Blank Presentation.
Choose a slide layout from the Auto Layout screen that appears. If you click on a layout once you will get a description of the design of that slide. Choose the layout that best fits your needs for that slide.
After you finish working with each slide you will need to go to Insert-New Slide for the next blank slide.
Adding Text
Click in the square to add your text. You can use the fonts and colors just as you would in your word processor. If you want to add or change the bullets, go to Format-Bullet and choose the style and color of bullet that will compliment your slide show.
Adding Pictures
Go to Insert-Picture. You can choose to insert a picture from the clipart file or you can insert a picture from any other location by clicking on the "From File" option.
Once your picture is on the screen you may resize and relocate it using the eight points that appear around the edge of the picture. It is recommended that you use the corner points because these allow the picture to be resized proportionally.
Viewing
Go to View-Slide Sorter. In "Slide Sorter you will be able to see all of your slides and move them around (by dragging them) so that they best fit the order of your presentation.
Go to View-Slide. You can view and edit individual slides. By using the scroll bar on the right you can move through your slides and edit each one.
Features Within Power Point
Go to Format-Background
Underneath the picture of the slide you will see an upside-down, black triangle. Clicking on that will give you color options. You can click on "More Colors" or "Fill Effects" to further your options. (See figures below).
Go to Slide Show-Slide Transition… By clicking on the black triangle underneath the picture of the dog, you will be able to access a variety of transitions. You will also be able to choose how your slides advance and you may add sound to your transitions from this window. You may choose to apply the transition to an individual slide or you may apply the transition to all of your slides by clicking the appropriate button in the Transition window.
Go to Slide Show-Custom Animation to add animation effects to your slide. The "Timing" tab allows you to chose the areas of you slide that you wish to animate.
The "Effects" tab allows you to animate special areas of your slide with movement and sound.
Viewing Your Show
To see your finished product, go to Slide Show-View Show. You will need to make sure that you are viewing your title slide before you do this.
You can advance your slides/animations/sounds by clicking on the left mouse button. When you reach the end of your presentation Power Point will automatically revert to slide edit view. If you would like to stop your presentation in the middle, right click and hit "end show".