cip how to do powerpoint
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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!