Click on New Slide button once again.

Point cursor to the first slide in the third row (Text & Clip Art). Click-on it, to highlight the slide, and then click- on OK.

The following screen will now appear:

Click-in the Click to add title box and type: Tools Needed

Click in the · Click to add text box and type:

Knife (tap Enter)

Spoon (tap Enter)

Plate (tap Enter)

Glass

Now, Double-click in the Double click to add clip art box. A Clip Art Menu Window will now appear similar to the one below. In the main part of the menu screen you will see various categories of Clip Art (Favorites, Academic, Animals, etc.). Click-on one of the Categories you like. There may not be one you easily associate with a peanut butter sandwich, so choose one you like. Then click on one of the images in your category. Just for the heck of it we’ll choose Animals.

Everyone knows that lions love peanut butter (even though it sticks to the top of their mouths), so we’ll choose a lion as our picture. Click-on the lion. When you click on the lion, a "button menu" will appear similar to the one on the left. Slowly point (move) your cursor arrow over each box and pause a moment (don’t click-on any of the box’s yet). Note what the Text Help boxes indicate. The top box indicates Insert Clip, the one below Preview Clip, then Add clips to Favorites or other category, and finally Find similar clips. Click again on the clip art image you selected and then click on the top Insert Clip button. The Clip Art now appears in your third slide. If you don’t like that choice, double-click on the picture in Page 3 again and select another image.

Note: if your clip art selection does not appear, and you receive an error message, please read on below where an explanation is given.

As you’ve just noticed, Microsoft Clip Art 2000 is a lot different than "old" Microsoft Clip Art. There are a lot more pictures and some other unique features.

Just for the heck of it let’s say we want a better image that has more to do with our peanut butter sandwich. So, logically, we’d rather like to have something other than a lion, or whatever you chose. If you’ve closed your Clip Art, open it again by double-clicking on the image in your PowerPoint slide. Notice at the top of the Clip Art screen an area similar to the one below.

 

Notice that there is an arrow in the Search for clips: area pointing to Type one or more words…

Click-in the Search for clips: area on Type one or more words… and you will see all of the words turn blue. When you see this, type in the word: sandwich and then tap the Enter key. You’ll now see a lot of clip art that shows images associated with sandwiches in some manner. If you see an image that you like even better than the one you selected choose it and attempt to insert this image.

Notice the graphic below. We clicked on the image you see to the right, then clicked the top button and got the error message below. (If you or someone else who installed the clip art on your computer did not install all of the clip art images on your hard drive then you would get an error message indicating the clip art that was not installed on your hard drive? We’ll, this is the error message you get.)

If you get this message you can click on Cancel, or continue trying until you are able to insert an image.

In PowerPoint 2000 you can now have images that "move!" These are called animated images. On any slide you can insert a Clip Art image. You can do as you did above, and the image will "fill" the area where you double-clicked. Most of the time, however, when you get comfortable with PowerPoint, you’ll want to insert an image and then move and size the image as you desire. To do this you’ll need to click-on Insert in the Menu Bar, and then on Picture in the drop down menu, and them move over Clip Art and click on Clip Art. Your screen should look like the one below.

 

A menu screen similar to the one we just used will appear, but it has two additional features, as you’ll see below.

We’ll "get into" sounds later, but now is a good time to learn about Motion Clips. Click-on the Motion Clips "tab" and you’ll see your Insert ClipArt screen change slightly. The Category buttons don’t look any different, but you’ll notice that the Motion Clips tab is now "on top." We’ll click-on the Animals Category again – so our screen will look like the one below.

 

The images you see on your screen are really animated; you just can’t see the movement until you do something neat. Lightly click the left mouse button on one of the images. We’re going to choose the dinosaur. When we click on the dinosaur we’ll see the button menu appear (just like it did when we worked with clip art a little while ago). Except that there is a big difference in the second button. You’ll notice the second button down (arrow on left) indicates - Play Clip. If you click on this button you will see a small screen appear in which you can see the dinosaur chewing its peanut butter sandwich and a lump, as it swallows the sandwich, going down its long neck. This is an animation. If you desire to insert this image you simply click on the top button as you did before. You won’t see this animation when you insert this image into your slide. You will only see the animation when you "run" your slide show. We’ll be running the slide show in a little while.

Click-on several animations and then click the Play Clip button to see the animation. Have some fun and insert several if you wish.