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Getting started with Microsoft Office PowerPoint: Week 3 - Working with Illustrations

An introduction to creating PowerPoint slide decks.

Review

Create a new basic slide deck

  1. Repeat steps on Week 10 handout (Exercise 2 only) to create a new slide deck.  Choose just two or three slides to create if time is limited.

Exercise - Create an illustrated slide deck

Download the ZIP archive of the images from the link above, and extract to your Desktop.

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Copy the images from the CPLCLASSROOM (H:) drive, in the DanH folder.  Save to your desktop.

 

Open a new blank PowerPoint document, and Save As with the following settings:

Location: Desktop                          Filename:  What Causes Seasons

  1. Slide 1: Use slide 1 as a title slide, this is always recommended (Home/Slides/Layout/Title Slide)
    • Title: What Causes The Seasons?
    • Subtitle: Your name and date (click enter in between to make two rows of text. Make it right aligned)
  2. Slide 2: Insert a new ‘Blank’ slide (Home/Slides/New Slide/Blank  Slide)
    • Insert a Text Box (Insert/Text/Text Box).  Enter “What causes seasons?” (make it 44 pt. font size and resize box and move into the middle)
    • Insert the four Slide 2 pictures from Desktop (Insert/Images/Pictures/go to Desktop and select each one)
    • Move and resize the 4 pictures around the text box
  3. Slide 3: Insert a new slide with internet image (Home/Slides/New Slide/Title Only)
    • Click in the Title and Enter “All over the world people experience 4 seasons.”
    • Search for the phrase "4 seasons" and select an image you like (Insert/Images/Online Pictures).
  4. Slide 4-7: create 4 slides, one for each season inserting picture files (Blank slide layout).  Below are the details for each:
    • Insert text Box (type the season like on your example). Resize and shape and place it like example.
    • Insert Picture (Insert/Images/Picture).  Find picture on your Desktop with corresponding slide # in name, OR do an online search (as in step #3 above) and choose your own favorite pictures.
  5. Slide 8:  Create a new slide with Icons (Blank slide layout)
    • Insert 4 text boxes, one at a time.  Write in each like the example.  Resize, shape and move each like example.
    • Insert an icon from Location or Weather and Seasons (Insert/Illustrations/Icons).  Move, resize and shape as needed.
  6. Slide 9:  create a new slide for words and a picture (Home/Slides/New Slide/Content with Caption slide)
    • In the top text section on left enter “Look at this diagram”, make it 32 font size.
    • In the lower text section type the text in the example, make it 24 font size.
    • In the picture section on right, insert the picture (Insert/Images/Pictures).  Find picture on your Desktop with corresponding slide # in name.
  7. Slide 10: create a new slide with text at the top and a picture (Home/Slides/New Slide/Title and Content slide)
  • Enter the text from the example in the title text box.
  • In the content section, insert the picture (Insert/Images/Pictures).  Find picture on your Desktop with corresponding slide # in name.
  1. Slide 11:  copy the previous slide, change the text and insert a new picture
  • Right click on slide 10 in the Slides tab on the left, select “Duplicate Slide”, then click on the new slide, slide 11.
  • Change the title to match the example.
  • Delete the picture (click on it and hit the Delete or Backspace key).  Then insert the picture (Insert/Illustrations/Picture).  Find the picture on your Desktop with corresponding slide # in name.
  1. Slide 12:  create a new slide as a wrap up (Home/Slides/New Slide/Title and Content slide)
  • Enter title text “Wrap up – What Causes Seasons”
  • In the lower portion enter the 3 bullets “The tilt of the Earth” “The Earth orbits around the Sun” and “Any questions?”

Home Exercise: Create a slide deck for a poem

Go to a web site like poetryfoundation.org or poemhunter.com and use the search or browse to find a poem (or portion of a poem) that you enjoy.  Create a PowerPoint slide deck, with the name of the poem and the poet’s name on the Title page, and the lines of the poem on the following slides (try for 3 slides at least, and no more than 10).  Illustrate the slides with images from the Internet, using search engines such as google.com or bing.com.  Set it to display automatically in a slide show, and share it with a friend or family member.