Rutgers Department of History PowerPoint Manual

Table of Contents
	Finding and opening PowerPoint
	Choosing the format of your slides
	Saving your presentation
	Undoing a mistake
	Changing the background
	-solid colour -gradient -texture -pattern -picture
	What to do if one object on your slide is hidden behind another
	Working with text
	-typing and formatting text -moving an existing text box -resizing an existing text box -creating a new text box -deleting a text box -advanced options, e.g. adding a border or fill to a text box -adding or removing bullets and numbering
	Working with images
	-inserting an image -moving an image -resizing an image -deleting an image or empty image box -advanced options
	Formatting master slides (templates)
	Making a new slide
	Switching between normal, outline, and slide sorter views
	Previewing your slideshow while working on it
	Adding AutoShapes
	-inserting an AutoShape -editing an AutoShape -adding text to an AutoShape
	Adding animations
	-how to animate a slide object -changing or deleting existing animations -making two objects animate at the same time
	Adding audio
	-inserting an audio file -why can't I find and insert my audio files? -differences between Macs and PCs -animating sounds to play, pause, and stop
	Adding video
	-supported video formats -inserting a video file -advanced options (incl. full-screen projection) -what to do if you can't insert your video files
	Adding hyperlinks
	-creating a hyperlink -problems with hyperlinks
	Adding graphs, diagrams, and tables
	-creating diagrams -creating tables -animating diagrams -creating charts -importing Excel files
	Making handouts, web pages, Word files, and JPGs from finished slides
	-printing a handout directly from PowerPoint -creating a Word Doc handout -creating a web page -creating JPG files from slides
	Copying your slideshow to CD or memory stick
	-in PowerPoint 2003 -in PowerPoint 2002 -in any version of PowerPoint
	Projecting your slideshow in the classroom
	-advance preparations -setting up the presentation -desperate attempts to make your slideshow appear -running your presentation once the projector is set up

Welcome! This manual is designed to help faculty and grad students create lecture slideshows. It is based on PowerPoint 2003 for Windows, which is on the computers in the Van Dyck lab. Most of these instructions also work for older PC and/or Mac incarnations of the program, although some of the commands have changed just enough to make it frustrating.

A clickable Table of Contents is on the left. The topics can be read in any order, but this manual is designed so that first-time users can work through it and create a slideshow as they go. You can get more detailed PowerPoint instructions from the official help files, which can be found by pressing F1 while in PowerPoint. The unofficial website http://www.rdpslides.com is also good for troubleshooting and tricks.

To download a Microsoft Word version of this manual (1.7 MB), please click here. You can also download a sample PowerPoint lecture (1.6 MB) by clicking on the image below. In the interests of keeping this second file relatively small, I haven't included any video clips, but most of the other techniques described in this manual are showcased here.

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Department of History
Rutgers University
Van Dyck Hall
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-7905
Fax: 732-932-6763
http://history.rutgers.edu