PowerPoint Tutorials - Adding the Animated GIF images

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Slide three is the first slide with a picture. Here's our Slide outline that we prepared for this presentation:

Slide outline

Insert a new slide by clicking Insert > New Slide from the menu bar, or click the New Slide icon from the toolbar. PowerPoint 2000 users should see the New Slide dialogue box appear. For PowerPoint 2003 users, you don't have to do anything else, as the default slide is the one we want.

Here's the dialogue box for PowerPoint 2000 users:

The New Slide dialogue box in PowerPoint 2000

The selected slide, the second one, is the one we're after. Click OK, and PowerPoint will insert a new slide. But notice that this is a copy of the Master slide we set up at the start of this section:

The new slide should look like this

Because we've already done the formatting for this slide, there's not too much to do. But click inside the Title box at the top, and type the Title from the notes:

A Basic Wired Set up

Your Title should then look like this, when you click outside of the text box:

Add the Title

If you look at our Slide Three Outline at the top of the page, you'll see that the next thing to do is this:

Image
Computer and desk - static image with no animation

You'll need our images for this. The images are all here:

Images for the presentations

Download the ZIP file and the images are in the folder is called presentation2.

To insert the first image, click Insert > Picture > From File:

The Insert > Picture menu

When the Insert Picture dialogue box appears, use the Look in box at the top to navigate to your download folder. Inside this folder there will be a folder called presentation2. The images are all in this folder. Insert the image called 1pcModem.jpg. Your Insert Picture dialogue box should look something like this:

Insert Picture dialogue box

Click the Insert button at the bottom, when you have located the correct picture. Your slide will then look like the one in the image below:

The image on the slide is too big

As you can see, the image is a bit too big, and is overlapping the text box at the bottom. We can do something about this. So click below to learn how to resize an image in PowerPoint.