PowerPoint Beyond the Basics

Staff Development

Working with DesignsApply a Design from the Design Tab

Insert a Graphic Here

Layering Objects• Objects are layered on

the screen in the order they are inserted.

• You can reorder the objects using the Draw button on the Drawing Toolbar.

• Objects include “everything” on the slide – textboxes, clipart, action buttons, etc.

Format/Picture Menu

Try “Watermarking” this Graphic and placing it behind this text.

Rotating Objects

• Textboxes• ClipArt• WordArt• AutoShapes

Spring is

Sprung

Adding Action Buttons

Create an action button to move to the first slide in this presentation.

Create another action button on the first slide to return to this slide.

Run the slide show to see how the presentation works using the action buttons.

Adding Hyperlinks using the Hyperlink icon

URLhttp://www.ahs.org/master_gardeners/

Another file

Another slide in this

presentation

Excel Chart

Add Animation to the Bulleted points below

• Animation allows a bulleted point to appear when you wish

• Use the Animation Tab to do this• Customize the animation- choose the one you

want• Hint: Click on the border of this text box to

select the box• Now the animation will apply to every bullet

Adding Sounds with Transitions and Animation

• Add a sound to the slide transition for this slide.

• Animate the graphic on this slide using Custom Animation. Attach a sound to this object.

Adding Sounds from File

• On next slide, insert the “Rain” wav file from the PowerPoint Beyond the Basics Folder on your building’s O:\ drive\Common Folder

• Set the settings so that it plays continuously across sides.

• Hide the icon while playing.• Run the show and just watch & listen!

Inserting a Movie• Insert the movie clip

“plants.wmv” from PowerPoint Beyond the Basics Folder on your building’s O:\ drive\Common Folder.

• Run the show to watch the movie clip.

Customizing shows

Record Sound

• Insert Tab – Sound• Record Sound

• With Sound selected, make any changes on the Option -Sound Tools Tab

Printing Options

• Slides• Handouts• Note Pages• Outline• Create Handouts in Word

Saving Options

• Save as a PowerPoint Show• Save slide 11 as .jpg