Charterhouse School

Making Powerpoint Presentations

(Students)

 

 

 

 

 

Using PowerPoint to Make Presentations

Please note that the classroom student computers do not have Powerpoint on them.  Powerpoint is currently only on the  computer lab computers.

 

1. Click Start –Programs – Microsoft PowerPoint or the PowerPoint desktop icon  

 

2. Click  the AutoContent Wizard button.  This will give you a predefined set of slides and format.  This in general is the easiest way to do a slide show.  Click Presentation Type on the left and click the ALL button.  Now click Training. The other choices are

                              a. start from a Blank presentation.

                              b. open a previous slide show.

                                    c. or design your own template.

 

3.  Notice you have window in to the left.  This is list of predefined slides all  ready         outlined for you.  You just need to fill in the information.  The  first slide is the title

slide.  To change the title of the slide, highlight the text on the right in the slide and then type in your information –or- you can type in the text on the left side of the screen.

 

 

4.  Now, move on to the next slide.  It is labeled introduction.

Add in an introduction to your slide show.  Follow the slide outline for the introduction slide.  Add/subtract what you wish.

 

  1. You can delete parts of a slide by highlighting text and pressing the delete key.
  2. On the left side of  your screen you can delete a whole slide by clicking on the folder beside the heading  and pressing the delete key.

7.  Again, the text on the slides can be edited from the outline on the left or the slide view on the right.

 

 

Fonts on the slides can be changed just as you would in MS Word.   Goto to Format-Fonts and change color,size, etc. .

 

Bullets are added by clicking Format-Fonts.  Click which style you wish to insert and then click OK

Finish the slideshow presenting an idea in poc5 to be used in your classroom

 

Playing the Slide Show  Click Slideshow-View Show

 

Transistion pattern between slides  Click Slideshow-Slide Transistions.  Choose your pattern you wish to move from one slide to the next.  Also, you can have the show move to the next slide with the click of the mouse (default) or move automatically by clicking the move automatically box and set the number of seconds it pauses on that slide.  Also notice you can add sound in this window.

 

Text Tricks  In the slide view to the right, highlight the text you want to do special effects.  Right click your mouse button.  Choose Custom Animation and then choose the effect you want on the text.