Make your slide show more interesting by

• adding images -- clip art, photographs, scanned art, or student drawings created using Microsoft Paint -- to each slide: Click Insert > Picture and select Clip Art or From File.
• adding background color: Click Format > Background, click the drop-down menu, click More Colors, and select the color you want. Then, click Apply to All.
• removing media icons. If you don't want to see a sound icon on your slide, you can hide it.
  • In the Drawing toolbar, click the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle on top of the sound icon.
  • Click the paint bucket and select the same color as the slide background to "hide" the icons under the rectangle
  • Click the paintbrush icon and select No Line to get rid of the outline of the rectangle.
• making slides move: Click Slide Show > Slide Transition. Select No Transition and then type "2 seconds" beneath Advance Slide.
• changing the font: Click Format > Replace Fonts and select a new font in the With drop-down menu.

Note: Don't use Animation Schemes in this presentation; it might alter the way in which the sounds and text boxes appear on each slide.

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