Inserting Images into a Slide

PowerPoint allows images to be imported into a presentation. These can be clipart, scans or any graphic images.

  1. Add a new slide by clicking the Insert menu and selecting New Slide.
  2. Choose the 'Text and Clip Art' layout from the standard slide layouts.
  3. Click in the title placeholder and key in "New PC model".
  4. Click in the bulleted text placeholder and key in:
    "Pentium Pro processor"
    "Multimedia"
    "Video conferencing"
    "Large cache memory"
  5. Double-click in the clipart place holder and choose a suitable image.

Inserting a Graph into a Slide
A graph or chart is a useful method for presenting numeric data. Whilst PowerPoint allows importation of data from Excel, it also has its own internal spreadsheet for entering small amounts of data.

  1. Add a new slide by clicking the Insert menu and selecting New Slide. Choose the 'Chart' layout.
  2. Click in the title placeholder and type in "Increase in Turnover".
  3. Click in the graph placeholder and a small table appears with four columns (A - D) and three rows (East, West and North) representing areas. The table contains numeric data that is displayed on the chart. Amendments to the table will cause changes in the displayed graph. For example select columns B, C and D by clicking in column heading B and dragging to column heading D. Press the Delete key and only column A's data will be displayed in the graph.
  4. Change column A's description from "1st Qtr" to "£1,000's"'. A click selects any table cell, a double-click highlights the contents of the cell.
  5. Change "East", "West" and "North" to "'1994", "1995" and "1996" respectively. These are the x-axis values.
  6. Change column A's data values to "275", "380" and "550". These are the y-axis values.

Your slide should something look like this:

Before leaving this slide, try some other graph options. Double-click on the chart, a Chart menu bar replaces the Slide View toolbar. Other chart options can be selected by selecting Chart and then Chart Options from the menu.

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