How to Use PowerPoint to Make Greeting Cards

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Did you know you can email a greeting card with clip art, movies, videos and sound? You can even make such a greeting card yourself, using PowerPoint. It's not hard.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

PowerPoint
Internet access
Email
Personal computer

Step1

To create a greeting card with PowerPoint, you must first create the slide show. From the File menu, click new, and you then can choose from an existing template, a blank presentation, or the AutoContent Wizard. For this purpose, click blank presentation. Click page setup and the File menu and set the slideshow for whatever size you want the slides to be. On the Format menu, click slide layout and choose the blank template. Next, click slide show, then transition, then pick how many seconds you want it to be before one slide changes to another.

Step2

Next, if you want to add clip art to the slide show, click picture on the Insert menu, followed by clip art. Do a search to find the kind of clip art you want to add, and double click on the image you find. You can also download clip art to your computer from the Internet to be added to the greeting card you create using PowerPoint. To format the picture, click picture from the Format menu, then size, and then type in how many inches high you want the picture to be.

Step3

To add a movie to the greeting card you are making with PowerPoint, click movies and sounds on the Insert menu and click movie from the Clip organizer. Click the desired movie, if your computer came with any movies, or if you have downloaded any from the Internet.

Step4

To add sound on the greeting card you are making with PowerPoint, click movies and sounds on the Insert menu and pick the sound you want from your Clip organizer. You will then have the chance to add sounds from a file or from clips you have saved from a CD. You can find sound files by clicking your C drive, then Windows, then Media.

Tips & Warnings

To add a slide at any time, click new slide on the Insert menu
To add text to your greeting card made with PowerPoint, click text box on the Insert menu and then type in your desired greeting.
You can save your card as a template by clicking new on the File menu, followed by "Save As." Your card can now be used as often as desired.
You can now send your greeting card through email as an attachment
The recipient must have PowerPoint