5/24/2010 Creating Backgrounds in PowerPoint

Creating a background in PowerPoint:

Step 1: Open PowerPoint and create your background on a slide. Remember to keep in

mind that the background should be “viewable” from all sides of the SMART Table. Think

“horizontally” and not “vertically”.

Hint: In PowerPoint, turn on your Grids and Guides (View > Grids and Guides) to help you

center and space your objects and words.

Step 2: Save your slide as an image. File > Save As > Select Save as Type and choose .png

or .jpg (.png is a larger file size) and select the file name.

5/24/2010 Creating Backgrounds in PowerPoint

Step 3: You will be prompted to save current slide or every slide if you have multiple slides. If

you have multiple slides/background pages you are creating, you can create and save all

of the slides at one time.

Step 4: Your slide will look like this as an image file.

Step 5: Open up SMART Table Toolkit and select the file folder. Locate the image file you

saved.

5/24/2010 Creating Backgrounds in PowerPoint

SMART Table Toolkit example “home” page with background:

Hint: Follow these same steps to create background pages for the applications.

Created by Education Consultant Heather Lamb