Learn how to create an interactive spectacular power point with these helpful hints. Intended for college and university students.

2. Pick a Design
1) Choose from a selection
of predesigned templates.
2) Change the colors
to fit the theme.
3) Add some
drama with a
different
background
style.

5. Adding Fonts
Using www.dafont.com
1) Select a font from the style types.
2) Choose your font and click “Download”
3) In Internet Explorer or Firefox, a
download box will appear.
4) Double click on the .ttf file

6. Adding Fonts, cont’d
5) Check to make sure the font is the
one you wanted. Then click “Install”
6) To use your new font, select the desired
text, and type in the name of your new
font in the font selection box.
NOTE: If your font does not appear, you may need
to save your progress, close Power Point, then re-
open the file.
Remember: If you saving your project to a USB flash/thumb drive,
you must also save any font or audio/video files you use to it.

7. Adding Animations bring the
presentation to
1) Click on “Animations”
2) Change the duration or
delay of the animation to
speed it up
or slow.
it down.
3) Don’t like the pre-created animations?
Create your own with these Motion
Paths.

8. Moving along…
Transitions are a great way to
move your presentation along
smoothly.
1) You can pick individual
transitions for each slide,
or apply one transition to
all.
2) Choose when the transition should happen.

9. You can even add SOUND!
And keep it going until the next slide.
Learn how to add
an animated
character in the
next slide.

10. GIFS
Animated characters, like the one
from the last slide, are created using
.GIF files. Adding a .gif file to your
presentation is easy. Just follow
these steps (using Firefox):
1) Do a Google image search for
your topic using this search
strategy--
2) Once you have selected your image,
click “View image.” 3) Right click and “Copy” the
image. Then paste directly into
the slide you want the image to
go.

11. Make it a SHOW!

12. Embedding YouTube
1) Under the “Insert” tab
click on Video, and select
“Video from Web
Site…”
2) Copy and paste the embed code from
Youtube into this box.
Having problems? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sbah9iIrlk
Youtube code not working? Try this site
http://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/youtube_xhtml/

13. Questions?
Karen Doster, TCC Librarian
Email: dosterk@tcc.fl.edu
Helpful Sites
• Microsoft Word PowerPoint Tips and Tricks
• Florida Gulf Coast-PowerPoint Tutorial
• Danville Community College-Advanced PPT tips