Apply Design Template

Applies one of the PowerPoint design templates to your presentation or uses one of your own presentations as a template. Design templates contain color schemes, slide and title masters with custom formatting, and fonts designed for a particular look. To do this, go to

Format _ Slide Design

Slide Show

This will allow you to run your slide show, beginning with the current slide if you're in slide view or the selected slide if you're in slide sorter view.

Slide Show _ View Show

View _Slide Show or Press  F₅

Custom Animation

Custom Animation option will allow you to add or to change animation effects of a selected slide. Animation effects include sounds, text and object movements, and movies that occur during a slide show. To do this, go to

             Slide Show _ Custom Animation

Inserting a Picture

To insert a picture use one of the following commands Click Picture  button in Picture Toolbar

      Insert _ Picture _ Form File

Inserting a Chart

The text of your presentation is important, but it doesn’t provide much in the way of visual instruction .You can use Charts to graphically display your data

Insert _ Chart

            Double click on the chart button in Standard Toolbar 

Inserting Movies and Sounds

This will enable you to Insert a Movie File, a Video Clip or a Sound File in your slide so you can play the movie or sound during a slide show. To do this

Insert _ Movies and Sounds _ Movies From File  or Sounds From File.

Inserting a Picture

To insert a picture use one of the following commands Click Picture  button in Picture Toolbar

            Insert _ Picture _ Form File

Inserting a ClipArt

To insert a clip art use one of the following commands Click Clip art button in Drawing Toolbar

      Insert  -- Picture -- Clip Art

Slide Transition

Slide Transition is a special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show. For example, you can fade in from black or dissolve from one slide to another. You can choose the transitions you want, and you can change the speed of each.

To add  Slide Transition effect , first select the slide 

Then go to  Slide Show _ Slide Transition 

Adding Colors, Textures, Patterns and Pictures to Slide Background

Right Click on Slide Background and Select Fill Effects or More Colors The More Colors option will allow you to select Standard Color or Custom Color as you wish . The Fill Effects option will allow you to select Tabs such as Gradient, Texture, Pattern or Picture

               Gradient 

If you select this Tab you can add One Color, Two Colors or Preset Colors to your Slide Background

                Texture

This will allow you to add special texture or other Texture to your slide background.

Pattern

                The Pattern Tab will allow you to add a Predefined Pattern

                Picture

                The Picture Tab will allow you to select a picture from another location

 

To format an object

           Select the object that you want to format

On the Drawing toolbar, click a formatting button (such as Fill Color, Line Color, Font Color, Line Style, Dash Style, Arrow Style, Shadow Style, and 3-D Style.)

To ungroup objects

Select the object that you want to ungroup

On the drawing toolbar, Select  Grouping  -  Ungroup

To group objects

Select the objects that you want to group by pressing  Shift Key

On the drawing toolbar, Select  Grouping -  Group

To move a text or an object

Select the  text or object

On the standard tool bar, Click the Cut  button

Position the cursor in  required place

On the standard toolbar, Click the Paste button

To copy a text or an object

Select the  text or object

On the standard tool bar, Click the Copy button

Position the cursor in  required place

On the standard toolbar, Click the Paste button

To format bullets with a different symbol or picture.

Click the bulleted line of text that you want to format

On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering

Click Character or Picture Button, and then Double Click on a desired Bullet

To change text alignment

Select the Text box

On the formatting toolbar, Click an alignment button (Align Left, Align Center, Align Right)                               

 or

Go to Format _ Alignment,  Click an alignment button (apply for Justify)

To change Text style

Select the text in which you want to change text style.
On the formatting toolbar, click a formatting button (such as Font, Font size, Bold, Italic, Underline, Shadow and Font color).

Drawing an object

To draw an Object, On the drawing tool bar, click the Auto shapes button

Point to a Category, and then Click  an object

Drag to draw a shape

To create a Text box.

      On the drawing toolbar, Click the Text box button,

Position the pointer on the slide, drag the pointer to create a box and then type the text.