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Create a Christmas card with PowerPoint

Christmas is here and he is cheerful atmosphere everywhere. Some of you may have been on greeting cards for Christmas away from friends and family. Fed's commercial paper Christmas cards and flash flooding on the Internet and in traditional stores? Find an alternative refreshing the stale routine Christmas card? You can try DIY multimedia greeting cards with MS PowerPoint. Tool robust programming can not only help you create compelling presentations, but inspire you to make a special Christmas card that will surprise you recipient.

As for creating a multimedia card for Christmas, PowerPoint lets you customize the colors and design, including your own music and videos and photos of your family or friend, to compose a message in return for the beneficiary, and get fun to show your genius computer.

Another advantage of PowerPoint Christmas card is that you can reuse your work by saving as a template. Christmas card template that you created can be used a million times at the base in place of holiday cards.

In this article I'll show you an example of how Christmas card slide show using PowerPoint 2003 and 2010. Later, you can take it as reference for your own production of Christmas cards.

How to create a Christmas card with PowerPoint?

September simple steps will guarantee your Christmas slide show of maps and model.

Step 1: Setting up layout of your Christmas card

Note: In 2010, PowerPoint, click the Design ribbon to achieve the Page Setup option. In terms of accommodation, click on the icon of the combo (black del) New slide choose the slide layout as a blank. Go directly to the transition to choose a ribbon of transition for your Christmas card. In the calendar grid, click the checkbox to automatically afterwards. Adjust time of 00:03:00.

Step 2: Create the Christmas card cover with clip art or related background image

On On the Insert menu, point to Picture and click Clip Art. In the Clip Art task pane, in the area Search text box, type a subject like Christmas.

Click Search. Double-click any image of Christmas. The image appears on the blank slide. If you can not find a good clip, you can import another image on your local disk. In the menu Format, click Image. In the Format Picture dialog box, select the Size tab, Size change to 5 and click OK. Drag the image to center the tree on the slide.

Note: In 2010, PowerPoint, offset the Insert ribbon, in the images tab click Clip Art or picture to repeat the procedures above. target = "_blank">

Step 3: Insert a new slide for the Christmas card

On the Insert menu, click New Slide. In the Format menu, click Slide Layout and choose the last of the white pages list layouts.

On the Slide Show menu, point of transition between slides. As part of slide transition, click on a transition.

Note: In PowerPoint 2010, go to Home -> Slides -> New Slide to add a Another theme empty. Repeat the Transition settings in step 1.

Step 4: Add a film / video to enhance your Christmas card

Click Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Movie from File to capture video from your local computer. The film appears on the blank slide.

In the Format menu, click Picture. In the Format dialog box, select the tab size, height change to 2.5, and click OK. Position the film on the slide.

Note: In 2010, PowerPoint, select Insert -> Media -> Videos -> Video from the file to select a video that you want for Christmas card. If you use a 2007 version, click on target = "_blank"> here to see How to insert a video in PowerPoint 2007?

Step 5: Enter your message text for the Christmas card

On the Insert menu, click Text Box. Click and drag the text box below the movie. In the text box, type your Christmas greeting, For example: Merry Christmas to Bill Clinton! Drag the text box by the sizing handles to resize the hi. Center and formatting text.

Repeat the procedure Insert above to make a text box below in the first. This time, Type some individual messages like: I wish you a warm and joyful Christmas and a promising year New! Play Drag the text box to resize the message. Format the text.

Note: In 2010, PowerPoint, follow Insertion -> Text -> Text Box to develop a horizontal or vertical text box where you can enter your Christmas greetings to the recipient.

Step 6: Add to your Mood Music for Christmas Card

Click Insert -> Insert Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File to select a song or audio card Christmas. Select this option to automatically play the sound on the greeting card. The icon of sound, a loudspeaker, displayed on the slide. Adjust icon sound to a minimum.

Note: In PowerPoint 2010, it goes like this: click on Insert -> Media -> Audio -> Sound from File.

Step 7: Save Christmas card as a template for reuse

On the File menu, click Save As. On the Save As Type drop-menu list down to the bottom of the Save As dialog box, select Design Template (*. pot).

Note: In 2010, PowerPoint, choose File -> Save As and save it as PowerPoint Template (*. potx).

Step 8: Send the multimedia card Christmas for your family or friend

Peppy PowerPoint now a Christmas card is done, you can zip and send to your friends and family.

Note: If the recipient of the Christmas card has an earlier version of PowerPoint, certain features of the card as the animation will be lost. In addition, if he / she uses another as Mac OS, or even do not have PowerPoint, he / she will not be able to view Christmas card.

To avoid this problem and proceed to a more flexible distribution of your Christmas card, you can convert it to video from PowerPoint conversion applications such as using Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Then you can get web-friendly video card for Christmas a few minutes. Put it on YouTube, Facebook, and send the integration code your family and friends remotely.

About the Author

Paula Cheung, technical writer and blogger for PowerPoint E-learning Center, dvd-ppt-slideshow.com