Animated Images and Sounds
In PowerPoint 2003 you can have images that “move!” These are called animated images. You can insert an animated Clip Art image on any slide. Most of the time, 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 click-on Picture in the drop down menu, and then move the cursor over Clip Art and click-on Clip Art. Your screen should look like the one below.
When you click-on Clip Art the first time, you may see a screen that asks if you want to organize your Clip Art. This is a good idea. So, click-on OK. You will see a series of screens that indicate that this is being done. It may take a few minutes, so please be patient. This will help you as you become more experienced with using Clip Art in any of the Office 2003 modules.
For those of you that have used Microsoft Clip Art 95, 97, or 2000 this will be a noticeable change.
Notice the two selections under Search In: and Results should be: All collections and All media file types. Click-on the small down pointing arrows on the right side of each of these selections (see arrows at right).
When you click on the triangle for All collections you will see:
When you click on the triangle for All media file types you will see:
These two areas: Search in: and Results should be: indicate (by the check marks in ALL the little boxes) that you desire to search EVERYWHERE. This makes sense at this point. Later, as you become more skilled in Clip Art selection, you can just check the boxes you desire.
We’ll “get into” sounds later, but now is a good time to learn about Motion Clips or Animated Clips. First we’ll do a search to see if we can find a cartoon motion clip that might fit into our Peanut Butter and Jelly theme. Look at the upper portion of the right side of the screen again. First, we’ll do a Clip Art search for cartoons and “hope” we get a motion/animated image.
So, type-in cartoons in the area under Search text:
Then click-on the Go button.
A screen similar to the one below will appear on the right side of
your screen.
Notice in the lower right corner of each image that there is either no “symbol” or there is a “small yellow star symbol.” This yellow star indicates that the clip art that the search found animated. If you don’t see the star, this indicates that the image is not animated.
If none of your images have a star, not a problem. We’ll select an image you like, and later show you how to find animated images you like, and add them to your personal Clip Art collection.
To “see” more about an image, move your cursor over the “right edge” of an image. We chose the seal balancing a ball on its nose (as indicated below). You will see a light blue bar appear on the right edge of the image with a small down pointing arrow. Move your cursor over the arrow and click-on it.
When you click-on the arrow, an image similar to the one below will appear.
A screen similar to the one on the right will appear on the right side of your screen.
From the image above, you can see that the drop down menu furnishes you with a number of selections.
Move your cursor over Preview/Properties and click-on this selection.
This image gives specifics on the Clip Art picture you chose. If this is an animated image, you will see the animation moving in the left preview area.
This is a handy feature where you can check the many details of any image you select.
When you are finished looking at Preview/Properties, click-on the Close button in the lower right corner.
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