Quick Reference Guide to PowerPoint 97

If you’re already familiar with PowerPoint and just need a quick refresher, follow these tips:

To create a new slide to add to your show:
	View
Toolbars
Common Task 
Leave Common Task Box showing and click on New Slide
	Choose Slide Layout
	OK 
				or
Insert
	New Slide
	Choose Slide Layout
	OK
	
To Save your show:
(I save after each slide especially if a lot of work went into it!!)
	File
	Save As
	Choose where you want to save to
	(large shows with photos & sounds won’t fit on a 3 ½ disk use a Zip or M: drive) 
	Give you show a name
	Save 

To insert clip art:
	Insert
	Picture
	Clip Art
	Highlight clip art of your choice
	Insert

To insert an Internet Image:
	Find the Internet Image you want to use
	Right Click on the image
	Left Click save as image
	(note the name of the image)
	Save
	Minimize Netscape
	Go back to / Maximize Power Point
	Highlight slide of your choice
	Insert
	
Picture
	From File
	Highlight Image
	Insert

To insert a sound:
	Insert
	Movies and Sounds
	Sound from gallery (or File, if you have saved sounds from the Internet)
	Highlight sound of your choice
	Insert

To view your slide show click on:
	Slide Show on the top menu bar
	View Show
			or
	Slide Show (little screen) icon at bottom (show will start with highlighted slide)

To add a feature to your show:
	Go to the small menu bar at the bottom left
	Click on the Slide Sorter (4 boxes) icon
	Highlight the slide of your choice
	Go to No Transition and scroll down to your choice
	Go to No Effect and scroll down to your choice

Advanced Features:

To create a watermark:
	View
Toolbars
	Picture
	Image Control icon (looks like 2 column gray, white, & black bar graph) 
	Left Click
	Watermark
	
To resize images:
	Highlight image
	Put cursor at one of the “corner” boxes (corners won’t distort image – 	others will make image fatter or taller) around image – (it will turn into a		 line with arrow tips on each end)
	Stretch or shrink by holding down left mouse button and moving corner box

To move images:
	Highlight image
	Left click “crosshairs” symbol and hold down mouse button
	Keep holding down and move to new position

To delete images:
	Highlight image
	Press delete key

Custom Animation:
	Slide Show
	Click custom animation
	Click timing
	Highlight item you want to animate
	Click effects
	Click on arrow to right of no effect
	Highlight item you want
	Click on arrow to right of no sound
	Highlight item you want
	Click preview to see effects
	Click OK to save effects

Change Layer Order:
	View
	Toolbars
	Drawing
	Highlight object to change
	Click draw
	Order
	Choose location

Change Color of clip art:
	View
Toolbar
Picture
Click Recolor Picture “can of paint” icon
Select color
OK

Change Font Color:
	Highlight font to change
	Click arrow to right of Font Color icon – A
	Select color & click

Word Art:
	Click on Insert Word Art icon -“3D” A 
	Select Style
	OK
	Enter text
	OK

Text Box:
	Insert
	Click text box
	Move cursor to desired location left click
	Type desired text
	Resize or recolor if desired (see above)

Insert Hyperlink:
	Highlight an object on the slide
	Right click go to Action Settings
	Left click Action Settings
	Highlight Hyper Link to:
	Scroll down to URL
	Insert URL
	Click OK
	That URL will appear in the Box
	Click OK at the bottom
	When Slide is in View Show Mode Hyperlink is active 
	Left click Hyperlink during show to see web site
	Click close or back button to return to slide show

Insert Music from a CD:
(CD must be in Machine for sound to play)
Insert	
Insert Movies or Sounds
Play CD Audio Track 
Select Track
OK
During Slide Show you must click on CD icon or custom animate 

Insert video clip:
	Insert
	Insert Movies or Sounds
	Select Location – Gallery or File
	Select object 	
	OK
	In Slide Show View – Double click on screen to play

To return to Election 2000 and Beyond, click the appropriate box.