Powerpoint 97

Designs

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You can be in any View (Slide View and Slide Sorter View are preferable). Click-on Format in the Menu Bar, and then Click-on Apply Design.

Click on the choices on the left side of the window. On the right side a special template will appear with its own formatting. Pick one you like and then click on Apply. Be sure to scroll up and down and to click on additional choices. Note: with Designs, they are automatically applied to all of the slides. You may choose additional effects for the Designs by using the
Background and Slide Color Scheme selections.

Add color:

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Now for some color!

There are a number of different methods you can use to add color. First we’ll use some basic methods and then try some “exotic” effects.

Build:

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Building is a term indicating how each line of the text, on a slide, will enter the screen. The lines, words, letters, pictures and charts can fly in from almost any direction. To Build the text on each slide, follow these directions. Go back to Slide View. You can do this in Slide Sorter View by double clicking-on the first slide, or Clicking on the Slide View button on the lower left of the screen. When the Slide View screen appears, click-on the first line of text. The “box” you saw, when you first typed text in this box, will appear. This indicates that the box is “active.” It will appear as below.

Transitions:

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Go to the Slide Sorter button at the bottom left (see top of page 7). Click on the button with four white squares.

You can now see all eight slides. Click on the first slide to highlight the slide (a heavy black border will surround the slide). Now point in the middle of the slide and click on your RIGHT mouse button. The right click will “bring up” a menu that is “tailored” to the “place” where you click. From the menu select Slide transition from the menu which appears (click-on it).

Text Art:

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Now we’ll use some Text Art. In the Drawing Bar, which should be open, find a “blue A” that is slightly tilted. When you pass your cursor over this “button,” it will indicate: insert WordArt. If the Drawing Bar is not available, click-on View in the Menu Bar, then click-on Toolbars and select Drawing by clicking-on it. Click-on the Insert WordArt button. The following WordArt Gallery menu screen will appear. Select one of the WordArt patterns by clicking on it. Next, click-on OK.

The following Edit WordArt Text screen will appear. Where the screen indicates Your Text Here, type-in: Enjoy your Sandwich. Select a different font and size if you desire then click-on OK.

You will return to Slide 8 and see the WordArt you created. You may use the “grabbers” to make the text larger. You may also move your text as you desire. If you want to change the “look” of your WordArt, point to the center of the WordArt and click the RIGHT mouse button. A WordArt edit screen will appear (see below). You may click-on the different “buttons” to edit your text. When you have finished your editing, you can close the WordArt edit window by clicking-on the “X.”

Also in the Drawing Bar is a Text Box button which will allow you to insert text in your slides if the template you chose does not have the desired text boxes. To insert text, click on the Text Box. It has an “A” in the upper left corner of the button with some text below. After you click-on the Text Box button, move the cursor into an “open” area of Slide 8. It will look like a “little sword” as you move the cursor. When you get to an appropriate place, click the left mouse button and a “text entry area” will appear. Don’t worry about its size. Just type the following: THE END. The text box will automatically resize to the text entered. You may now highlight this text, and by clicking-on Format in the Menu Bar and Font, as you have done before, edit this text.

Enhancing the presentation:

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Not too spectacular? Let’s spice it up!

If you are not on Slide 7, move to it by either using the elevator bar on the right if you are in Slide View, or by double clicking on it is Slide Sorter View.

When you are in Slide View, left click-in the middle of the starburst. Then, type the word WOW! You will see WOW! appear in the starburst. It’s sort of like a “hidden” text box. Click the left mouse button in front of WOW!, hold down the left mouse button, and drag across WOW! to highlight the word. Click-on Format in the Menu Bar and then click-on Font. The following Font Menu screen will appear. Change the font style, size, and color. Bold or Italicize if you want. Be as creative as you desire and then click-on OK.

Save your work

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Now point the cursor away from the Title box and click the left mouse button. This is called “clicking away.” This will “turn-off” the box.

Point to View in the Menu Bar and click. When the menu list appears, move the cursor down to Toolbars. When the list appears, click-on Drawing. The Drawing toolbar will appear at the top, side or bottom of the screen. Now click-on AutoShapes and a small box of shapes will appear.

Saving your work

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Now would be a good time to save your work for the first time. Point to and click-on File in the Menu bar. Click-on Save. In the upper left corner of the window that appears, you will see a Save in:. Click-on the small triangle on the right and it will show you the various disk drives available on which you can save. Point to the one you want, and click-on it. If you choose the 3½ Floppy (A:), make sure you have a formatted disk in the A drive. If you choose the C:, choose the folder in which you want to save by double clicking on the folder.

Beginning the presentation

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Slide 1

You will notice, in the lower left corner of the screen, that it indicates Slide 1 of 1. You will also see that your screen looks like the one below.

Starting PowerPoint

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Double click on the PowerPoint 97 icon, or click-on Start in the lower left corner of the screen, then click-on Programs, and then on Microsoft PowerPoint.

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