Learn to create a PowerPoint Presentation in 20 steps. Resize this window to take up one half of
your monitor. Open PowerPoint by clicking onSTART. Then click onPROGRAMS. Then click onMICROSOFT POWERPOINT. Resize the
PowerPoint window to take up the other half of your monitor (PLEASE NOTE:
PowerPoint will not let you resize its windows until you are on step 3). Once the windows are resized, you
should be able to work back and forth between this tutorial and the PowerPoint
you are creating.
The slides below are thumbnail
copies of the way your screen should look for each step of your PowerPoint
creation. Click on them for an enlargement. Use the browserBACKbutton to
return to this page from the enlargement. You may want to print a copy of this
page for future reference.
1. Select the Blank presentationradio
button by
clicking on it. Then click OK
2. Select the Autolayout for the new slide by
clicking on it. Choose Title Slide and click OK.
3. Select the Click to add title and
sub-title
text boxes by clicking on them.
4. Type your title and subtitle in the text
boxes.
5. After the title and subtitle are entered, clickInsert
on the menu bar. Then click New Slide...from the drop-down
menu.
6. Select the Autolayout for the new
slide by clicking on it.Choose Clip Art & Textand
click OK.
7. Select the text or graphics you want to
modify by clicking inside the box.
8. Select Click to add titleand type
the slide title.
9. Select the Click to add text box and
type the text you want. Use "Enter" on you keyboard to add another
bullet to the list.
10. Double click on Double click to add clip
art. Select a Category by clicking on it.
11. Select a graphic to insert onto your slide by clicking
on it.
12. Click on Insert clipfrom the menu
that appears.
13. The graphic will be inserted onto the slide. Then resize or move
the graphic by clicking and dragging.
14. (Read slide 15 instructions NOW, then continue)
Click Slide Show on the menu bar and the
View Showon the drop-down menu to see your presentation.
(You must click ONE time to change slides during the
slide
show)
15. Slide 1 appears. Click to change to slide 2.
16. Slide 2. Click to end the show since this is your last
slide and go back to
PowerPoint.
17. Click on Fileon the menu bar and the
click on Save Asto save your presentation.
18. Select where you want to save the presentation from
the drop-down menu in the Save in:box.
19. Give your presentation a name in the File name:box.
20. ClickFile on the menu bar, and
Exit
on the drop-down menu to close PowerPoint.
This tutorial is an attempt to
develop a simple approach to learn a Microsoft Office application. If you
found it helpful and easy to use, please let me know by using the "E-MAIL
JOE" link below. Would you find tutorials, using the same format, for the
other Microsoft Office 97 & 2000 (Access, Excel, etc.) applications
useful?
