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Hello and welcome to a Learning Technology Services tutorial on PowerPoint, used as a
multimedia software. This is a series of tutorials demonstrating how to use PowerPoint in a new
and creative way. The second slide is going to have the same
background but we’re going to bring an image in. I’m going to go to “Home,” and make
a blank slide, leave the background pink, and then go into “Insert Picture,” and
to the image folder. And I’m going to select the “Hands and the Ribbon .jpg”. Now,
this is a colored image; notice that the pink on pink is pretty bad. I’m going to manipulate
this a little bit. Because I have the picture highlighted, I now have the picture tools,
format tools, and notice that if you click the more arrow, you can have lots of different
designs, and I’m going to select this to be simplistic. Notice over in “Corrections,”
“Color,” “Artistic effects,” I can do lots of things with this image, and this
is what’s new in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is that all these different effects can be
seen in the little minis. I’m not actually going to have any artistic effects, but I
am going to go to color and just make it black and white. You can use that little round green
bottom to make it rotate if you wish. Right now I’m going to leave it right there. If
I want to size this to increase the size, notice I have the size up here in the ribbon,
but I can also take any corner handle, drag it out, and it will proportionally size.
Now I’m going to make a text box. I go under “Insert,” “Text box,” and I’m going
to make one text box I’m going to copy in from that Word document my one text, and on
this text I’m going to do all my formatting, and I’m not going to do this again for any
of my other text boxes. So I’m going to make it larger (remember --nothing less than
24) and on this case, because it’s big, I’m going to make it 40 because I want it
to stand out. I’m going to make the text black and I’m going to change my font. You
never want to get too carried away. I’m going to pick Arial.
I don’t want to have to do that for any of the other text boxes that I’m going to
be bringing in, so I’m going to clone this; if I put my cursor on the dotted line notice
it becomes solid; I’m going to press and hold the control key on my keyboard, left-click
hold, and I can drag, lift up on my mouse, lift up on the control, and now I have a clone.
Rather than copying and pasting, you can clone. So now I’m going to go to get the next line
from my word document, and I can come in here and I don’t want to just paste because if
I just paste, notice it turns white. Rather, I‘m going to go up to “Paste,” “Paste
Special,” and just get “Unformatted Text,” and then I don’t have to once again change
it black, change the size, and so forth. I can always make my textbox longer so that
the words will fit. Now to start adding animation I’m going
to go to “Animations,” and “Add animation.” Do not use all of these fancy-dancy things;
make it simple. There’s always more entrance effects down here. I’m going to try wedge
at this point. So I have it appearing and then I also want to have it disappear. So,
make sure that this is not highlighted, make sure that the text box is, and then you go
under “Animation,” and you “Exit,” and I’m going to just have a simple “disappear.”
So first my one animation I can play it up here, it appears, and then it disappears.
And I’m going to add the same thing down here. Once I’ve started with the wedge,
I’m going to continue with that. So I’m going to go here, and then I’m going to
unselect this because otherwise I’d replace it, so I’m going to come down here, select
this, and then add an exit of ‘disappearing.’ I can play here, and I can see my animations
flowing across or I can go down and make it into slideshow here, and I can see the animations
with the click. Disappears, comes in, and disappears. Save this project. This is slide
2.