How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation
 

•      Open Microsoft Word
•      Choose Outline from the View Menu
•      Type your outline, using the turquoise arrows to promote and demote entries. DO NOT press any extra enters on your keyboard.
•      Choose Save As from the File Menu
•      Type a file name (a string of up to 8 letters, numbers, or combination of the two) and save to your disk in the A drive.
•      Exit Microsoft Word
•      Open Microsoft PowerPoint
•      Choose Open an existing presentation and click on OK
•      The Open window will pop up. On the bottom left to the right of Files of type, choose All Outlines
•      Now Open your Microsoft Word file.
•      Next, choose Save As from the File Menu, type a file name (see step 5), and save it in your disk in the A drive. To
•      save in the future, use the shortcut CTRL-S, depressing CTRL and S at the same time. You should save each time you  make a change because you wouldn’t want to have to all that work again!
•      From the View Menu choose Master > Slide Master
•      Choose Slide Miniature from the View Menu. You may click on the slide miniature at any point to preview the changes you’ve made.
•      From the Format Menu choose Apply Design.
•      Pick the design you like and click on Apply.
•      Again choose Master > Slide Master from the View Menu.
•      Triple-click on "Click to edit Master title style" to highlight this. Next, right-click to see your options for editing the title.
•      Choose Center alignment from the shortcut buttons.
•      Click on Font to change the font, font style, size, and color (click on more colors to get more options). Before   clicking on OK, click on Preview to make sure that it is clear and unique.
•      With "Click to edit Master title style" still highlighted, right-click and choose Custom Animation. Pick an entry animation . Preview it to see if you like it. DO NOT use any of the Appear Effects for text.
•         Click on the Timing tab and choose Automatically, 3 Seconds.
•      Triple-click on "Click to edit Master text styles" and it’s sub-levels (everything in this box should be highlighted).
•      Repeat the same process you did for the title, changing it’s appearance and color. DO NOT make the timing automatically. It should be animated on Mouse click.
•      When you’re through Close the Slide Master View.
•      Click on your first slide and use the Slide Show View to preview your show thus far.
•      Next, you should add a transition for your slides. Choose Slide Transition from the Slide Show Menu. Choose an Effect, Medium or Slow Speed, On Mouse Click and Apply to All. Again DO NOT add a sound.
•      Once again, play your slide show beginning with slide one.
•      Note: If you edit a slide after the master slide has been formatted, your changes will override the master formatting, and  even if you change the master, this slide will retain the features you changed. If you wish to Reapply the master to a slide  you have changed, right-click the slide in Slide view. Choose SlideLayout and click on Reapply.