Using PowerPoint More Effectively

Giving Presentations & Using Microsoft PowerPoint Effectively

Tips on Giving Presentations

Tips on Working with PowerPoint

Microsoft Office Assistance: PowerPOint 2003 - and there are links to previous versions of PowerPoint too

Getting Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - An excellent site with easy step-by-step directions, complete with screen-shots, on how to do almost everything in PowerPoint.

Web Site Estates - free PPT templates, presentation advice, and other communication solutions

Microsoft's page - PowerPoint hints

Template Central - free sample templates and other helpful items

The PowerPoint FAQ

Awesome PowerPoint Hints, Tips, and Resources

Free PowerPoint Presentation Backgrounds - with an education theme

Brainy Betty - A decent site with free PowerPoint templates and presentation backgrounds, free graphics, resources for business and education

PowerPoint Courses - from Microsoft, these are audio and textual, free online courses that show you step by step how to do various things within PowerPoint 2003

EchosVoice.com - an amateur site with some helpful tutorials on dealing with images, animations, and working with PowerPoint in general

Handling Accessibility Issues

Finding Images

Google Images - You'll find anything and everything here, but be careful of copyrighted images.

Associated Press Photo Archives - Collections of approximately 500,000 news photos taken in the U.S. and the entire world.

American Memory Project - Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections

Microsoft Office Clip Art & Media

How to find multiple clip art of a similar artistic style so your presentation has the same theme throughout:

Go to the Microsoft Office Clip Art & Media page.

Do a search for the type of image you are looking for (for example, search for "teaching").

You should get a whole bunch of images. Click on the one that you like the best. Don't click the checkbox.

A window should pop up. Within the metadata on the right, there should be a style number. Click on the style number.

You should now have several images (and maybe several pages) of clip art of a similar artistic style.

You can now check the images that you want to download, or click on "Select page." Remember that there may be multiple pages of images of just this style. Below is an example from a search of a particular style.

When you have selected all the images you want to save, click on the "Download 1 item" link, as in the above image. Your number may be different based on the number of images you have selected to download.

Select " Import into Clip Organizer version 2002 or newer".

Click on "Download Now".

A pop up window should appear. OPEN it with the default application (MediaPackageFile).

It will eventually then ask you to run the Microsoft Clip Organizer, and feel free to do so. But know that it takes a while to run.

Now the next time you are in any Office application, you can insert your clip art.

Dealing with Image Issues

Optimize Pictures - An audio and textual demo on how to adjust your pictures within PowerPoint

5 Tips for Using Clipart and Graphics - from Microsoft

EchosVoice.com - an amateur site with some helpful tutorials on dealing with images, animations, and working with PowerPoint in general

Cross-browser Compatibility

From PC to Mac and Back - Dealing with saving, working, and displaying on multiple platforms

Adding Sound & Video

Resources from Workshop

Resources within Heard Library System

Using Fireworks, TK5105.8885 .F55 U756 2000, located in the Science and Engineering Library

Fireworks MX: The Complete Reference (e-book)

Fireworks MX: A Beginner's Guide (e-book)

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies (e-book)

There are 10+ e-books on Adobe Photoshop, depending on which version you have.

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