Enhancing the Presentation

Click-in the cloud. Then, type the word WOW! You will see WOW! appear in the cloud. It’s sort of like a “hidden” text box (this is the secret!). Click the left mouse button in front of WOW!, hold down the left mouse button, and drag across WOW! to highlight the word. Or, since you are in Word, triple-click quickly on WOW! and WOW! will be highlighted.

Change the Font, Font style, Size, and Color. Bold or Italicize if you want. Be as creative as you desire and then click-on OK. If WOW! is “too big” for your Cloud, simply “grab” one of the corners, or sides (as we explained previously), and make the cloud larger.

Now that we have a cartoon cloud box (like in the comic-funny papers) that says WOW!, we need to add a comic character (clip art) to be saying this phrase. So, back to add clip art.

You’ll need to have the Clip Art Task Pane visible on the right side of your screen. If it is not there, follow the instructions in the Auto Shapes Section.

We thought we’d search for animated people, so we typed-in people then chose Animations (as you can see in the image on the right).

We then went through the pages, as we did before, and chose several images we liked. You do the same. Choose several images that you like. If you want to search for images other than people, great - go for it!

We then clicked on Download (so many) clips (like pictures at the right), then clicked-on Download Now. We then clicked-on Open and were taken to the Microsoft Clip Organizer screen. Please look at your Clip organizer screen carefully. On the left side it will indicate the folder in which the clips will be saved (all of this was covered in the Clips Online Section).

Choose a clipart image that you like and click the small down triangle on the right side of the image. When the drop down menu appears, click-on Copy.

Then close the Microsoft Clip Organizer by clicking on the small “X” in the upper right corner of the Microsoft Clip Organizer screen. Don’t forget to also click the “X” on the Microsoft Office Online screen if it is also visible.

Next move your cursor over your slide and click the RIGHT mouse button. In the pop-up menu that appears, select Paste. Your image will now be somewhere on your screen. You’ll probably have to drag it down and to the left and make it larger. Go ahead and do that now. When we finished, our slide looked like the one below.