Doing PowerPoint

A beginners guide…

Your first screen will look something like this

The arrow is pointing to the menu that changes the slide design and format. You can click down the menus from the arrow to the left of the words ‘getting started’. This allows you to change the design and colours of the slides.

Picking out slide layout can give you some useful options for a slide

show

Slide Layouts

• You could experiment with different layouts by clicking on the one that you require in this right hand window.

The ‘slide design’ will give you different background designs

Scroll down to find one you like and then select it.

Its easy to add text by just clicking on ‘Click to add text’

But you can also add pictures from your file or from clip art by going to the ‘Insert’ menu:

As well as pictures, you can also insert other things such as tables,

and even hyperlinks

Just select the picture that you want from your file or clip art to add

to your slide

You can rotate the picture using the green dot above the picture

You can move the picture by holding the left mouse button down when the arrow is over the picture

You can re-size by dragging on the circles around the edges of the picture

The picture toolbar allows you to do lots of interesting things with your picture. If the toolbar is not on your screen, select ‘View’ and then ‘toolbars’ and then ‘picture’

When you have finished designing your slide show you can show it by selecting

‘View Show’

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When showing your slide show, these icons can also allow you to go back or to end the show.

You can move the show on using your mouse. If you

click your right mouse button it will give you a useful menu that allows

you to go back or end the show

You print from the ‘File’ menu. To print a 6 slide

handout, select ‘Handouts’ under ‘Print what’

Select 6 Slides per page

This is what you will get

from the print out and this is

what you should put in

your PDF

Good Luck!