PowerPoint

|| PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program developed by Microsoft. Here are some documents and resources to help you learn to use PowerPoint.
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PPT 2013- Documents and Help Guides

 * PowerPoint Tips || Save this PowerPoint to your own machine and open it in PowerPoint to learn some basic tips. ||
 * Print || How to print one or more slides per page, with lines to take notes, print speaker's notes, or an outline of all the text in the presentation. ||
 * Insert Clip Art || Clip Art is now located behind a new button in PowerPoint 2013. All Clip Art now requires access to the Internet, Office 2013 does not have an option to have Clip Art installed on our own computers. This document describes where to find it and some new options. ||
 * Add Web Site Links || You may add links to websites within your PowerPoint presentation. When the presentation runs and the link is clicked, an Internet browser will automatically run and open to that website.

These websites might highlight an aspect of your topic, provide a prompt for discussion or delve into greater detail or explanation of your topic. ||
 * Insert a YouTube Video || YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload and share video clips. You must have an active Internet connection to insert a YouTube video and again to view the video when the PowerPoint presentation is run. This document will guide you through both processes: inserting and playing the video from the PowerPoint presentation. ||
 * Animate Text || This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to animate text in PowerPoint, which is one practical strategy for adding interest to PowerPoints. Bulleted lists may be animated to appear one line (paragraph) at a time—including in reverse order. ||
 * Switch Monitors to Show PowerPoint || If you are teaching in a classroom with dual monitors at the instructor station and you want to show a PowerPoint then you may want to control which monitor displays the PowerPoint presentation. This document will explain how to switch the show to display on either monitor from within PowerPoint. ||
 * Slide Show Tips || This document provides some quick keystroke tips to support the PowerPoint Slide Show features, and assumes that you have a PowerPoint presentation open and ready to run. ||
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PPT 2010- Documents and Help Guides

 * PowerPoint Tips || Save this PowerPoint to your own machine and open it in PowerPoint to learn some basic tips. Topics include: Add text; move, resize placeholders; move objects on layers; change the layout; add clip art; add shapes; group, ungroup; add design template; hide background graphic; convert bulleted text to SmartArt; run slide show; hide slide show, and reveal slide show. ||
 * Animate Text || Control the text displayed on your slide by animating it. For instance, you may make one bulleted item appear at a time. ||
 * PowerPoint Slide Show Tips || This document will show you how to hide your screen, navigate quickly to a specific slide and more! ||
 * Insert a YouTube Video || Playing YouTube videos through your PowerPoint. Add another layer of interest and information! ||
 * Getting Started with SmartArt || Visual representations of information are stronger than long lists of bulleted text. Convert your bullets to visual images. ||
 * Embed a YouTube Video || This is an alternate method of embedding a YouTube using PowerPoint 2010. ||
 * Embed Website Links || Make any object on a slide "clickable" so that a web page is displayed in a web browser. ||
 * Navigation Actions || Want a presentation that isn't linear? Use these steps to make a presentation that offers choices for what to see next. ||
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External Resources

 * Towson University PowerPoint Resources || [] ||

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