Exciting Powerpoint presentations in 7 easy steps

Exciting Powerpoint presentations in 7 easy steps
Exciting Powerpoint presentations are only 7 steps away, if you use this page.

Step 1: Brainstorm
Brainstorming is a very important step. First, come up with what you want your slideshow to be about. Then, create a design on a peice of paper using both photos and text. When you have an idea designed, boot up your computer and get ready.

Step 2: The Basic Design
Before opening a Powerpoint file and jumping into it, a basic design is needed. Find pictures you would like to use, and check your text in a word proccessor for spelling and grammar errors. Make sure you have your brainstormed design and text next to you. Now you are ready to start.

Step 3: The Creation
Now is the time that you put that basic design to life. Open a Powerpoint file and you right- click. When the menu opens, choose 'slide design'. There a lots of templates to choose from. To make the slide a solid color, click the blue letterin 'color schemes'. Once you have a nice color, right-click again and chose 'slide layout'. Choose the layout that is right for your use. Before creating another slide, finish one and transition it before making more. Now you have a starting slide.

Step 4: Inserting Pictures
Now that you have a basic slide, it is time to insert text and pictures. To create a text box, go to the 'insert' toolbar and click on 'text box'. Use your mouse to click and hold and create a text box. To make the text box bigger, scroll yor maouse over the small circle in the bottom-middle. Click and hold and pull the mouse twords you to make the box bigger for larger text. To insert a picture, again go to the 'insert' toolbar and scroll over 'picture'. When the menu drops down, click on 'from file'. Find you picture in the 'My Pictures' folder. When you find the picture you want, click on it, then hit 'insert'. Your picture will appear on the slide. You can stretch it the same way you did the text box, but the more you stretch it, the more the quality of the picture goes down.

Step 5: Transitioning
Now it's time to creat a timed slideshow with transition efects. Right-click on the slide itself, not on a picture or text. When the menu pops up, click 'slide transitions' at the very bottom. Where it says 'advanc slide', click the box that is checked, and then click the other box. Go to the bar that says 'fast' and make it say 'slow'. Finally, in the top box, click on the transition you think sounds good. It will preview it. If you like it, click 'ok'. If you don't, keep looking until you find one you like, then hit 'ok'.

Step 6: Animations

Now, if you wish, you can make your text and pictures animated with the slide! Put you mouse
pointer over the text or picture you want to animate and right-click then click on 'custom
animations'. Now, click the 'add animation' button and scroll over 'enterance' then click on
one you think sounds cool. It will show you a preview. When the preview is over, click on the
bar in the white space on the right. In the top bar it says 'on click'. Press the arrow and
click 'after previous'.

== Step 7: Enjoy! ==
Now you slide is finished. Repeat all of these steps to create more slides and make a complete slideshow. Don't forget to make the last one say 'The End'!

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