| Chistmas is coming soon, but are you tired of sending | | | | You can add a movie to your multimedia greeting card |
| Christmas cards in any old ordinary way? So,this year | | | | which you make with PowerPoint, instead of clip art. |
| you would like to send a special Christmas greeting | | | | Point to movies and sounds on the Insert menu and |
| card—something a little different—maybe for a | | | | click movie from clip organizer. Click the desired |
| special person in your heart. If you have a personal | | | | movie—that is if your computer hard drive came |
| computer with Microsoft Office software, the creative | | | | with any movies to add, or if you have downloaded |
| Christmas cards comes: why not create a Christmas | | | | any off the Internet. You can format the movie the |
| multimedia greeting card with PowerPoint? It would not | | | | same way you would a picture. |
| be that hard to create such a greeting, and while you | | | | Add sound to your Christmas multimedia greeting card: |
| could use simple clip art, you could instead add videos, | | | | You can add sound to your greeting card. Click movies |
| a movie, even sound. | | | | and sounds on the Insert menu and then pick the |
| One advantage of creating a Chritsmas multimedia | | | | sound you want to add from the Clip Organizer. You |
| greeting card is that you can save your card as a | | | | will also be given the choice to add sound from a file |
| template. After saving your creation as a template, | | | | or any CD tracks you have saved to your computer. |
| you can reuse the card many times. You can create | | | | You may have sound elsewhere on your computer, |
| many cards based on the original. | | | | but you should find sound files by clicking your C drive, |
| Step 1:Create a New Slideshow | | | | then Windows, then Media. You should have a wide |
| Open PowerPoint, from the File menu, click new. You | | | | selection of sounds to add to your card. |
| will then be given the chance to use an existing | | | | Add text to your Christmas multimedia greeting card: |
| template, a blank presentation, or to use the | | | | It is simple to add text to your multimedia greeting card |
| AutoContent Wizard. For our purposes, click blank | | | | made with PowerPoint. On the Insert Menu, click text |
| presentation. | | | | box. Click and drag the text box below the picture, |
| Step 2: Adjust the page size to whatever you desire. | | | | movie, or clip art you added. Drag the text box by the |
| Click page setup on the File menu. You can adjust the | | | | resize handles to whatever size you want. In the text |
| size to anything you want, but for our purposes, | | | | box type your desired greeting, such as, "Merry |
| change the width to 7.5 inches, the same as the height. | | | | Christmas." You can create a second text box below |
| Step 3:Set up the layout for the slide show. | | | | the first to add your name or the name of the |
| On the Format menu, click slide layout. You have a | | | | recipient. You can size or format the text and the font |
| variety of templates to choose from, but for our | | | | color in whatever way you would like. Click on Format |
| purposes, choose the blank one. | | | | and then font. Choose your options. |
| Step 4:Set up the slide show and the speed at which | | | | Step 6:save your Christmas greeting card as a |
| the slides will move from one to the other. | | | | template. |
| Click slide show, then slide transition. In the advance | | | | Click new on the File menu, and then save as. In the |
| slide section, click automatically after box. Change the | | | | save as dialogue box, choose new template. Name |
| delay time to 00:03, and close the slide transition pane. | | | | your template. |
| Step 5?What this step is would depend on whether or | | | | If you think it is too troublesome to make a powerpoint |
| not you want to create your card from clip art, to add | | | | all form the beginning, you can also use some free |
| a movie, or a picture you already have. | | | | Christmas PowerPoint Templates instead. |
| Add a picture to your Christmas multimedia greeting | | | | Many items such as photos, movies, sounds, |
| card: | | | | background images, and border images are on the |
| Let us say you want to create a card from clip art. | | | | Microsoft Clip Art and Media Web Site and can be |
| Click picture on the Insert menu, then clip art. Do a | | | | added to your multimedia card created in PowerPoint. |
| search for the type of picture you want to add. Double | | | | Step 7:Deliver your Christmas greeting cards. |
| click on the image you want to add. It will be added to | | | | Of course,you can send your elaborate Christmas |
| the slide, unless you get a message that says you | | | | greeting cards through e-mail as an attachment,but |
| have to use a CD that came with your computer to | | | | sometimes it is troublesome to send a Powerpoint file |
| use the image, in which case you will have to use the | | | | with sounds and movies.If you don't deal with the |
| CD. You also can add download clip art to your | | | | sounds and movies well, they will not play in the |
| computer from the Internet—sometimes for | | | | recipient's PowerPoint.Or the recipient has a different |
| free—after doing a search for clip art. You will also | | | | OS or he/she has not installed a PowerPoint app. in |
| find a link to a clip organizer, if there are any clips there | | | | her/his computer,what will you do? Don't worry, here |
| on your computer and a link to clips online. | | | | are the solutions:Convert the Christmas greeting cards |
| You can also format the picture, including the size of | | | | to video.So you can easily send it with an e-mail,and |
| the picture in your multimedia greeting card created | | | | make it playable on a different OS or even without |
| with PowerPoint. Click picture from the Format menu. | | | | PowerPoint installing computer.What's more,you can |
| Click size and then you can make the size of the | | | | upload the greeting cards to your blog ,SNS or to |
| picture however many inches in height or width that | | | | video sites, and more crazily, you can send the |
| you want—at least if it will fit in your browser. Drag | | | | Christmas greeting video card together with mobile |
| the image of the picture you inserted to the center of | | | | device ( for example iPod,iPhone,Blackberry etc.) |
| the screen. | | | | you've chosen as a gift. That is a real surprise! Haha! |
| Add a new slide to your Christmas multimedia greeting | | | | But if the recipient has no computer or he/she knows |
| card: | | | | nothing about computer, I'm afraid that you have to |
| If you want to insert a new slide, click new slide on the | | | | convert the Christmas greeting cards to DVD,and |
| Insert menu. You can then follow the same | | | | send the DVD copy to he/she so that he/she will |
| procedures for formatting and adding clip art. | | | | receive your warm Christmas greeting by watching |
| Add a movie to your Christmas multimedia greeting | | | | TV. Really remarkable,isn't it? Why not start your own |
| card: | | | | now? |