1. Doing PowerPoint
A beginners guide…

2. Your first screen will look
something like this
The arrow is pointing to the menu that changes the slide design and
format. You can click down the menus from the arrow to the left of
the words ‘getting started’. This allows you to change the design
and colours of the slides.

3. Picking out slide layout can give
you some useful options for a slide
show

4. Slide Layouts
• You could experiment
with different layouts
by clicking on the one
that you require in this
right hand window.

5. The ‘slide design’ will give you
different background designs
Scroll down to find one you like and then select it.

6. Its easy to add text by just clicking
on ‘Click to add text’
But you can also add pictures from your file or from clip
art by going to the ‘Insert’ menu:

7. As well as pictures, you can also
insert other things such as tables,
and even hyperlinks

8. Just select the picture that you
want from your file or clip art to add
to your slide

9. You can rotate the picture using the green dot
above the picture
The picture
toolbar
allows you to
do lots of
interesting
things with
your picture.
If the toolbar
is not on
your screen,
select ‘View’
and then
‘toolbars’
and then
‘picture’
You can move the picture by You can re-size by
holding the left mouse button dragging on the circles
down when the arrow is over around the edges of the
the picture picture

10. When you have finished designing your
slide show you can show it by selecting
‘View Show’

11. You can move the show on
using your mouse. If you
click your right mouse
button it will give you a
useful menu that allows
• th you to go back or end the
show
When showing your
slide show, these
icons can also allow
you to go back or to
end the show.

12. You print from the ‘File’ menu. To print a 6 slide
handout, select ‘Handouts’ under ‘Print what’
Select 6 Slides
per page

13. This is what
you will get
from the print
out and this is
what you
should put in
your PDF

14. Good Luck!