Preparing/making PowerPoint Presentations

Say hello to PowerPoint – Title Slide Screen

The Ribbon

• Everything you need to create an super duper PowerPoint can be found in the ribbon’s eight tabs

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HomeInsertDesignAnimations

Adding Text

To add text, click inside a text box causes a cursor to appear, type project info here.

Click here to create a new slide

Clicking on the arrow gives you slide templates

To insert images, movies, sounds, graphs, etc click here or here

Inserting Images

Choose the folder with your image

Select the imageClick “Insert”

Let’s insert a text box

The cursor will look like this. Click where you’d like the box. Then type

Inserting a Text Box

Chuck Norris is so fast, he ran around the world and punched himself in the back of the head

To change the look of you presentation, click “Design”

Chuck Norris does not wear sunblock, the sun wears "Chuck Norris block".

The Animation ribbon allows you to apply fancy effects as the slides change.Like this…

Chuck Norris can hit 11 out of 10 targets with 9 arrows.

Chuck Norris can pause online games.

Ready to present? Click here or here

Clutter• When making a presentation, try to break

up the information you are presenting into small chunks. It makes the information easier to absorb by the people you are presenting to. Furthermore, you will lose your audience because they will feel overwhelmed by all the information stuffed into one bullet. To practice, let’s break the information in this slide into smaller chunks. Like this…

…De-clutter• try to break up the information you are

presenting into small chunks• It makes the information easier to

absorb• Your audience will feel overwhelmed

when too much information is put onto one bullet

• Wasn’t this easier to understand than the last slide?

Delivery• In most cases, your audience will know

how to read• In such cases, it is not necessary to read

the information on the slide verbatim • It is always better to summarize and give

additional information that isn’t listed in the slide

• The slide is just as much to remind you of the material as to present it to the audience, therefore, the information in the slide is there as a guide for you to be aware of the information

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