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Updated 2007-01-10

PowerPoint Tutorial

Part 1.

So you Want to Make a PowerPoint Presentation...

What can I do with PowerPoint? (showcase)

Why? (limitations and caveats)

How long does it take? (practical considerations)

Part 2.

Step-by-step Together

Look at the toolbars

Where to get help

Some special vocabulary

Let's make a presentation

  1. Open Power Point
  2. Choose TEMPLATE
  3. Select Dad's Tie
  4. Open top left template (title)

Slide 1 The Title Screen

  1. Title: Type (or copy from here) Trip to Tomei
  2. Subtitle: Type (or copy) Third-year students go to Tomei Gakurin
  3. (next line) This is their story
  4. Highlight TOMEI GAKURIN, make Italic (it is a foreign word).

Slide 2

  1. Select New Slide from Common Tasks
  2. Choose top, second-from-left layout
  3. Title: Schedule: Four nights, five days
  4. Content: First day: Arrive, set up
  5. Next line, TAB, then Room Assignments
  6. Next line, then Sheets in Sheet Room
  7. Next line, Opening Ceremony
  8. Next line, Left Arrow (Promote), Go to Dinner

Slide 3

  1. Select New Slide from Common Tasks
  2. Choose top, third-from-left layout
  3. Title: After Dinner
  4. Content for left-hand box: (You type in or copy from here)
  5.     Students
  6.         Meet
  7.         Take a shower
  8.         Watch TV
  9. RIGHT CLICK ON edge of right-hand box (empty one)
  10. Choose CUT from menu
  11. Click on Insert Picture Icon (looks like: )
  12. Choose meet.jpg from list of files (ask Kevin if you can't find the file)
  13. Resize, reposition picture on screen

Slide 4

  1. Select New Slide from Common Tasks
  2. Choose top, third-from-left layout
  3. Title: Special Day
  4. Content for left-hand box: (You type in or copy from here)
  5. Museums popular
  6.     Art
  7.     Picasso near
  8.     Warm, sunny day
  9. RIGHT CLICK ON edge of right-hand box (empty one)
  10. Choose CUT from menu
  11. Go to INSERT Menu, Choose Movies and Sounds, then Movie from File
  13. Choose Picasso.mpg from the menu

Finishing up

  1. Save your Presentation: File Menu, Save As
  2. Type in new file name (Example: Tomei Gordon)
  3. Click on Save button

Explore other views

  1. Outline view
  2. Slide sorter View: Click once on first slide (If time, add transitions and Effects)
  3. Slide Show view: Run the slide show (If time, use pointer and pen)

Part 3

Now you do it.

Project ingredients:

The Sample project (Instructions, Ingredients on your Desktop)

The Advanced Project (Instructions, Ingredients on your Desktop)

For after you are done: Some Resources:

The best from the Web: PowerPoint in the Classroom

Rutgers University site on using PowerPoint 97

Debbie Collins gives us a step-by-step approach to PowerPoint 97

Indiana University at Purdue has a bare-bones text-based tutorial. 

Of course you can always borrow my Keystone Learning Systems' CD-ROM-based tutorial if you have about 90 minutes for each of 3 CDs (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced).