Create Your first Presentation

HOW TO PREPARE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION:

• first launch Powerpoint
• the "project gallery" window should open.
• make sure "blank document" is highlighted in the "groups" column at the left and click OK/
• If the "project gallery" window does not open,goto the file menu and choose New Presentation

Next Steps:

• You will have a presentation with one slide. You can change the layout of this slide by going under the “Format” menu and down to “Slide Layout”. Choose a layout that you like and click on “Apply
• Type the title of your presentation and whatever else you want on your first slide

CHANGING TEMPLATES AND FORMATS:

•  If you don’t like this template, you can change it. Go to the Format menu and select “Slide Design"
• Make sure the design you choose has a DARK BACKGROUND with LIGHT FONT. For example, a dark blue background with bright yellow font looks good.
• For coherence in group presentations, all members should use the same design

ADDING MORE SLIDES:

• To add more slides, go to the Insert Menu and select new slide
• Type the information you’d like on your second slide 
• Continue adding slides as necessary 

ADDING GRAPHICS:

• Important: only add graphics that will enhance your presentation!!
• Go to the Insert menu, down to “Picture”  and select “picture  from file”. Find the image file you want, open it and click “insert”.
• Choose a new slide with a graph format.
• In the area for the chart, double click to input the data for your chart.
• When you do this a new program called “Graph” will open.

ANIMATINNG TEXT:

• This is how you make each bulleted point of your slide appear on the screen one at a time 
  when you click the mouse during the presentation

  First, go to the Slide Show menu and down to “Preset Animations”Next, where you see “Off”, scroll until you see the animation style you want e.g. “fly in”