WFA Technology PowerPoint Directions: You will be creating your first power point about you!! Follow the steps below to set up the first 3 slides of “My Favorites” PPT.

Starting Power Point 1. Click Start – Programs – Microsoft Power Point 1. When you start PowerPoint, PowerPoint displays the Title Slide in the Slide pane. 2. Enter the title of your presentation "My Favorites” 3. Enter the subtitle “Your Name”

Create New Slides 4. To create a new slide Choose Home > New Slide> click on the down arrow. 5. The Slide Layout pane will appear, this provides you with slide templates you can use when creating your PowerPoint presentation. 6. Choose Two Content layout from the Layouts 7. Click in the title and type: My Favorite Foods 8. Click in the Bullets and List 3 of your favorite foods 9. Click on the face icon to pull up clipart, insert a clip art of one of your favorite foods

Apply a Design Template 10. Design templates provide backgrounds. Go to the Design tab and choose a design 11. Select the New Slide button from the toolbar 12. Select the Two Content Layout 13. Click in the Title and type: My Favorite Sport 14. Click in the Bullets and type in 2 of your favorite sports: 15. Click on the face to insert clip art and search on a sport picture

Save your Power Point as “My Favorites” to your student ID folder.

Follow steps below to set up slides 4 thru 6 of “My Favorites” PPT.

Open up “My Favorites” 1. Add a New Slide 2. Choose Two Content layout from the Layouts 3. Add the title “My Favorite Music Artist” 4. Add the person or group name Ex. “Usher” 5. Locate a picture of your favorite music artist on the internet and save to your 890# 6. Click on mountain icon (Insert picture from file), locate your picture and insert it 7. Double click on the picture, go to Format tab, choose an artistic effect and picture styles Pictures as Backgrounds 8. Add a new slide 9. Choose Title and Content layout from the Layouts 10. Click in the Title and type: My Favorite TV Shows 11. Click in the bullets and type in 3 of your favorite TV shows 12. Locate a picture on the internet of 1 of your favorite TV shows and save to your 890# 13. Go to Design Tab and Choose Background Styles then Format Background 14. Under Fill click on Picture or texture fill 15. Put a check in “Hide background graphics” 16. Make sure the #s under the Offsets are all set to 0% 17. Choose Insert from File, locate your picture and click insert 18. Choose Close to apply to that slide

Background Colors 19. Add a new slide 20. Choose Title and Content layout 21. Click in the Title and type: My Favorite Movie 22. Click in the bullet and type in 1 of your favorite movies 23. Go to Design Tab and Choose Background Styles then Format Background 24. Click in Solid Fill or Gradient Fill then click on Color to choose a color 25. Click on Close to apply to that Slide

Follow steps below to set up slides 7 thru 9 of “My Favorites” PPT.

Open up “My Favorites” a.i.1.Add a New Slide a.i.2.Choose Title and Content from the Layout section a.i.3.Click and type the title of your slide "My Favorite Animal” a.i.4.Click and list your favorite animal a.i.5.Locate a picture from the internet of your favorite animal a.i.6.Insert the picture as a background just like you did in slide 5 Inserting Smart Art a.i.7.Add a New Slide a.i.8.Choose Title Only Layout a.i.9.Click and type the title of your slide “My Favorite Classes” a.i.10. Click on Insert - Smart Art a.i.11. Click on List and choose Vertical Bullet List (2nd row) a.i.12. In the top boxes add the name of your favorite classes a.i.13. In the bullets list 1 reason why you like each of the classes

Animated Clips a.i.14. Add a new slide a.i.15. Select the Title Only Layout a.i.16. Click in the Title and type: The End a.i.17. Choose Insert – Video – Clip Art Video a.i.18. Choose an animated clip a.i.19. To see the clip move you must play the slide show- go to Slide Show – From Current Slide

Follow the steps below to add animation and transition to “My Favorites” Power Point.

Slide Transition – how slides move from one slide to the next 1. Go to the Transitions Tab 2. Click on the transitions to see which one you like 3. Under Advance Slide you can set up your slide show to advance automatically after a certain amount of time or on mouse click. 4. Click Apply to All once you have your transition chosen

Animation – gives motion to text, pictures, and other content on your slides 5. Go to Slide 1 and select the text or object you want to animate (Click on the text or picture to select it) 6. Go to the Animations tab and select an animation 7. Click on Preview to see what your slide will look like 8. Go through each slide and add animation to 1 item

To view your slide show Click on Slide Show – From Beginning or F5 Show your teacher for a grade