1. Learn to make your own slide show.
By
Dustin McDainel

2. What is PowerPoint?
 PowerPoint is presentation
software that allows you to make
slide shows. You can easily insert
text, pictures, clip
art, graphs, hyperlinks, videos, an
d even screen capture shots.

4. Steps to Take
1) Do your research.
2) Organize your content.
3) Create a rough draft outline.
4) Create a new slide show.
5) Insert your content.
6) Edit and format the content.
7) Review and save your work.

5. Do Your Research.
 Know the audience.
 Who are you presenting to?
 What is their existing knowledge of the
subject?
 Research the topic.
 Use the internet, books, and other sources.
 Learn as much as you can about the topic.
 Look for picture that relate to the ideas
involved.

6. Organize Your Content.
 Create a new folder in windows.
 Make sure you know the location of that file.
 Store all related pictures, text
documents, and links in the folder you
created.
 We will be using them later in our slide
show.

7. Create a rough draft outline.
 Rough Draft
 Use pen and paper to make a quick
outline of the topic you will be covering.
 Break the topic into smaller ideas.
○ These will be the titles for each slide.
 Create bullets from each smaller idea.
○ These will become your body in the
slides.

8. Create a New Slide Show.
To open PowerPoint click on the following:
Start menu>All programs>Microsoft office>Microsoft
PowerPoint 2010
You can also click the icon on the desk top or task
bar that looks like this:

10. Inserting your content.
 We will start by titling our slide show on
the first slide (provided already).
 Toward the left side click the outline tab.
 Type in your main title.
 By pushing the Enter key PowerPoint will
automatically create a new slide.
 For each new slide type the title and push
Enter to create the next slide.

12. Changing the Layout
 To make it easier to layout our content, we will
change the layout of each slide.
 Click the Slides tab to change the view back
 Highlight the slide you want to change.
 Right click the slide once.
 Scroll the mouse over Layout.
 Choose appropriate layout for slide, use the chart.
Slide Number Layout Name
1 Title Slide
2-5 Title and Content
6-7 Comparison
7 Picture with Caption

14. Adding Body Text
Now we will add in the
body content to each slide.
 Click on the slide view tab.
 Click in a text box.
 Add remaining text to slides.

16. Inserting Clip Art
 Now lets insert some pictures.
 First we will use clip art.
○ Check the Include
Office.com content box.
○ Drag and drop from the
menu.
○ Move and resize.

18. Inserting Pictures
 Now we will insert pictures of our
own.
 Know where they are located on
your computer.
 Use the “Insert picture from file”
button located inside of each text
box.
 Move and adjust each picture if
needed

20. Review and Edit
 Use Spell Check to make corrections.
 Under the Review tab
 Click this icon
 Let the pop-up guide you through
corrections.
 Make any other changes needed.

22. Changing the Theme
 Under the Design tab.
 Use the down arrow to expand
the theme menu.
 Select the theme named
“Thatch”
○ This will apply a preset theme
to all the slides in the show.

24. Some Touch Up
 Now to re-adjust some of text.
 Make the titles stand out more.
○ Change font size.
○ Change font color.
 Also make appropriate changes to the
bodies text.
 Move and resize the pictures.
 Highlight each picture.
 Resize and/or move.

26. Adding Transitions
 Nowto change how the slide show
goes from one slide to the next.
 Under the “Transitions” tab
○ Highlight target slide on left of screen.
○ Change the transition for that slide by
picking one from the drop down menu
across the top.
○ Use the same or different ones for each
slide.

28. Review and Save
 Give the work one last look over.
 Save the presentation in the appropriate
place.
 Use the save as function under the “File”
tab.
 Pick the desired drive to store the file on.
 Pick the desired folder to put the file in.
 Name the file.
 Click the save button.

30. Conclusion
This concludes our first PowerPoint
tutorial. You should have a grasp on
some of the basic functions the
program offers and the ability to
create your own slide show from
scratch.