How to Create a Simple Presentation in PowerPoint

1. Click on Start and bring up Microsoft PowerPoint.
2. Click on Blank Presentation. PowerPoint builds a presentation one slide at a time. You first determine the layouts for your slides.
   
3. The layouts for slides are presented as AutoLayout options. For this practice session, select the second one in the top row (heading, with Bulleted List below)
   
   
   
   
4. Click where it says Click to add Title and insert some words -- for practice, you could just use your name in the heading
5. Practice adding text.
6. Practice inserting images. Grab an image off the Web (e.g., go to http://www.ditto.com, select an image, and then save it to the Desktop). To insert images, you click on Insert on the Task Bar at the top of the screen, then go to Picture/From File and select the image.
7. To work on a new slide, go to Insert/New Slide and decide on the autolayout to use. Then create your slide.
8. Save your file frequently with .ppt as the extension.
9. To view as a slide show, go to View/Slide Show. To go from one slide to another, hit Enter. To end your slide show, click in the lower lefthand icon shaped like a diamond and select End Show.

PowerPoint is a fun and versatile presentation tool. You can learn a great deal on your own by just experimenting. PowerPoint Tutorial <http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html> from the University of Rhode Island, and  Power Point Tutorial <oid.ucla.edu/Tatp/tutorials/tutorials.htm> from UCLA, will help you.

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