Using+Powerpoint

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Simple Presentations This page shows you how to start a presentation and do things like add slides, choose a theme for your slides, find tool bars you need and use the task pane. If you already know this stuff, skip this tutorial and move on to other skills you don't already know.

Adding a Picture from the internet to Powerpoint

Inserting symbols like pi or square.

Changing Slide Background

Using Clip art as a background

Using Clip art as an action button

Action Buttons - buttons that allow users to move to a particular slide in a presentation regardless of the slide order. This page will show you how to add content to your slides, then insert and format action buttons in your presentation. Action buttons are handy to make tutorials, games, and interactive activities. Custom animations will also be helpful to watch if you are making any of these types of products.

Formatting Action Buttons - This shows how to change the color and transparency of an action button as well as copy and paste a button to save time.

Custom Animations - making objects including text move in your presentation. This page will show you how to animate objects and text in your Power Point. You will also be able to add basic sounds and control timing here.

Setting up the Show This page shows you how to make your show play the way you want it to every time.

Adding Movies and Saving This page shows you how to add a movie to a slide and save the presentation a special way so the movie will play when you share the presentation with others.

Finding and using templates Go online to find templates for games and other types of presentations that are free for anyone to use. Set search parameters so you get just what you want the first time you search.

Links to other Power Point Tutorials