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Brown text inside a scroll, like this is the ‘ Knowledge’ component. It attempts to explain the  reasons for performing the tasks contained on the ‘Procedure’pages.  \nTo create a Birthday card using A4 paper we need to use a suitable tool. Microsoft  PowerPoint Presentation has been selected. Unlike Word, PowerPoint allows free movement of text boxes and pictures across the page. Each text or picture box can be stacked, and their order rearranged to create a ‘complex’document without the ‘fixed’structure a Word processor like Word forces us to use  \nHOW TO   \nCreate your own Birthday Card using PowerPont  \n1. Double Click on the PowerPointIcon (If you have one on your Desktop, or just start it from your Start Menu )  \n2. PowerPoint should now start  \n3. Click on ‘BLANK Presentation‘ as you just need a blank sheet  \n3  \n4  \nPowerPoint like Libre office’s Impress Presentation is designed to produce office presentations, not documents. Hence the default size is set to Screen 4 : 3 . To use the tool for printing documents you must change it’s size to A4 .  \nPowerPoint has existed for many years and there are several versions, PowerPoint 2007 , 2010 , 2016 and 365 . Each version contains the same characteristics, but the menu positions may vary. Look for the ‘ Design’ tab. Then‘Slide Size’ and finally ‘Custom Slide Size’.  \nThe first page of a presentation usually has a ‘Title’ so a default‘ Title Box’ and ‘ Text Box’ appears. We want a blank page so we must select all of the boxes and delete.  \n4.  IMPORTANT ! Change the size from ‘ Widescreen’to A4 in the slide size pop-out box. Then ‘Maximize’  \n5. As you just want a blank page, you need to remove the ‘Click to add …’ boxes  \n6. Hold down the [Ctrl] Key and type [A]  \n– to select all, then press [Del], the boxes will be highlighted and disappear.  \n7. Click once in the sheet (to gain focus) and then Right Click – you want to display gridlines.  \n8. Select  \nthat option. 5  \n6  \nAlthough the next few steps are not actually required in the creation of our Birthday card, they are useful to illustrate the process and to use some of the built in functions.  \nBuilt-in shapes are very useful as they can be individually shaped, coloured and filled with text and pictures (I use this to create this page ☺)  \nAfter selecting the type of shape you want, position the mouse atthe top left of the desired object and with the left mouse button depressed drag to create the shape’s size. The object can thebe subsequently clicked on to select, to have it’s properties adjusted using the ‘Properties’ box on the right.  \n8. Now, from the top File Menu weare going to select a rectangle shape. Select the ‘Insert Tab’,’Shapes’,’Basic ’…,’Rectangle’. Then ‘Click’ on screen and drag to size.  \n9. We will use the drag box corners to adjust it to cover exactly half of the page.  \n7  \n8  \nAs we want a folded Birthday card, which has four sides. We need to determine page 1 , page 2 , page 3 and page 4’s positions on the A4 paper.  \nI demonstrate this by the creation of 4 rectangles, which I align by getting PowerPoint to generate a background grid (which is only for alignment and will not be printed) .  \nI used the ‘ Text’ tool (covered later) to both number the ‘pages’and to create guide numbers on the background grid.  \nThe grid, page numbers and rectangles are not required for the creation of the card, but can be used to create different background colours and borders.  \n10. To help with the explanation I have both numbered the background grid and the rectangle box (4) and added a second one (1) using the Text tool.  \n11. As this will be a double sided card I need an extra page. Use Slide menu, New Slide to create this ,  \nRather than going through the steps (described) to create a new page","cbCaiqAaJq86zjgf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqAaJq86zjgf","pdf",4033005,32,"English","# HOW TO\n## Create your own Birthday Card using PowerPoint\n## Start PowerPoint and choose a blank presentation\n## Set slide size to A4 and remove default boxes\n## Select all placeholders and enable gridlines\n## Use built-in shapes and the Properties panel\n## Insert rectangles and align using a background grid\n## Create extra slide for a double-sided card","[{\"question\":\"Why is Microsoft PowerPoint used instead of Word?\",\"answer\":\"PowerPoint allows free movement of text boxes and pictures across the page. This makes it easier to stack and rearrange elements to build a complex layout.\"},{\"question\":\"How do you change the slide size to A4 for printing?\",\"answer\":\"Open the Design tab, choose Slide Size, then select Custom Slide Size. 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