To enter text on a slide, click inside the placeholder, and key the text. I'll insert another slide. The title of this will be "Course Goals." To key bulleted items, we will simply click inside the placeholder, and touch Enter. To move to a second-level bullet, Enter and then touch the Tab key. Then we will key the text for the second-level bullets. Note that Enter moved to the second-level bullet and repeated the process. Enter, and if I want to go to the first-level bullet, I will hold the Shift key and touch Tab. Then I can enter the next item. I want to create a new slide, so I will insert another new slide, and on this slide I would like to have a picture or clipart at the left side and have text at the right. However, I do not want this text to be bulleted. Click the border and click the Bullets button to remove bullets. I'll type text in this textbox. I have now keyed the text, and you will notice that the alignment is such that the first line outdents and the other lines are indented. I will close the task pane here to give us a larger view. Click on View, Ruler. On the ruler bar, we can adjust the placement of the text by using the Indent and Align handles. Now the material is aligned, and we are ready to move to the next slide. To format all of the text in a placeholder, click inside the text to select the placeholder, then click the border of the placeholder, and notice as I click, the shape of the border changes. Once it has been clicked twice then any item on the formatting toolbar can be applied. For example, here's Increase Font. I'll click this to increase the font. Decrease it twice to return it back to the original size. Alignment can be applied. The text can be centered, right-aligned, or left-aligned. The Indent buttons will decrease or increase the indent. Bold can be added. Any formatting, including font and font size can be changed by applying it to the entire placeholder. I'll click inside the placeholder and select a term. I want to format only a word. In this case, I have to select the text. If I want to increase the font size, I can do so. I may want to add bold to this to highlight the importance of the word "big." Formatting can be applied to any text just as it normally is in a word processor.
In PowerPoint you can create links by typing the URL or by selecting text to link. With the URL, once you touch the space bar, the hyperlink is created. I can also link from text to a file on my computer or to a file on the Internet. Select the text, click the Insert Hyperlink button, locate the file, click on the name of the file to insert, and click OK. I now have two types of hyperlinks--one from selected text and one from a URL.
Speaker notes can be prepared for each slide. Move the splitter bar until you see the arrow and increase the notes area to allow more space for keying the notes. Then click and key the notes in this area. So as a reminder, we will make a notation here. It is also possible to use the Notes Page View by clicking on View, Notes Page. The screen would need to be increased in size, but the notes could be typed on this screen as well. I'll return to normal view. To type notes for the second slide, just click on the second slide and add notes. Notes can be quite helpful in making a presentation. They are to be referred to and not read just as the content on a slide is referred to but not read to the audience.