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Would you
like to jazz up your PowerPoint presentations? Here you will find
instructions for adding animation, sound, and background pictures, as well
as step-by-step instructions for some of the available tools in PowerPoint.
I am also including on this page some sound files
for you to download and use in your presentations. Enjoy! |
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I am using PowerPoint 2000, so there are
some slight differences between it and older versions of PowerPoint. |
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Adding background pictures to PowerPoint |
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Format / Background / Down Arrow / Fill Effects / Picture / |
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After this series of steps, you need to point to the folder where your pictures are located. I recommend saving them to your My Documents folder. |
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After you have selected the background picture you want to use, click on OK and then click on APPLY. The picture you have chosen will now appear on your slide. |
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Text Boxes --Adding Color, Lines, Shadows |
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Use the icons at the bottom of the screen: Paint bucket, Paint Brush, Letter A, Line Thickness, Line Style, Shadow Box, 3-D Box. |
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First select the text box you want to change by left clicking on it. Then click on icons at the bottom of the screen (or the arrows next to them) to pick the color, line style, thickness of line, Shadow, 3-D Box, etc. |
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Animation and Sound |
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Right Click on a Text Box / Custom Animation / Effects / Down Arrow |
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Powerpoint has a large variety of animation effects for Text Boxes, Clipart and Pictures. Use the Down Arrow to view the many selections and the Preview button to see a thumbnail view of the animation effects in your slide. |
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Here are a collection of sound files to use in your PowerPoint slides. |
