How to Make a Greeting Card in Powerpoint 2013 TUTORIAL

How to Make a Greeting Card in Powerpoint 2013

Using Powerpoint to Make An Due east-Card to Send By Email to Friends

Powerpoint is more traditionally used to do presentations for conferences and training simply information technology also has another apply: equally a means by which you can make an due east-card.

An east-card stands for 'Electronic Card,' and I used to make one every year to send from my team to all of our colleagues at work past e-mail.

None of us sent Christmas cards via mail; nosotros used to donate the money we would have spent on sending cards to a local children's cancer charity instead, I created a festive PowerPoint east-menu to send.

Here is how I did information technology.

Open Powerpoint and Select Bare Presentation

Start By Opening Powerpoint and Selecting Blank Presentation

1. Open Powerpoint—any version volition do
2. Select the blank presentation; information technology is highlighted in the photo to a higher place
3. This gives us a brand new blank PowerPoint slide to use equally our blank sheet.

Insert your photo or clipart

Insert a Festive Movie on Your E-Card Slide

1. Download a free slice of clipart or digital photograph.
2. Relieve it to your computer.
3. Get back to Powerpoint
4. Select insert; from the drib-down menu select picture and and so select from file.
5. Locate your lovely festive clipart/picture and then click open up.
6. The photograph will driblet onto the slide. You lot may demand to resize it slightly: To practice this ever pull the photo from the diagonal corner, never upwards and across because it will stretch the photo.

Text boxes inserted

Insert Text Boxes

The next thing yous need to do is place your greeting on your e-carte.

You can put it all in as 1 greeting, but this takes the interactive fun out of the e-card and so information technology is really better to write your greeting in by doing information technology in a number of text boxes.

1. Go to insert and then select text box.
2. Drag your mouse to the place you want to place the showtime slice of text.
3. Continue to exercise this until you lot accept a few pieces of text on the e-menu.

Now information technology's fourth dimension to breathing the card.

Custom Animation

Effects in Custom Animation

Animate Your E-Carte du jour Slide

1. From the toolbar, select slide evidence, and from the drop down carte du jour, select custom blitheness. You will be shown a list of all of the various elements of the slide.
2. Ticking the box next to whatsoever of the items volition permit you to custom animate information technology.
3. For this e-menu, yous will but need to use the showtime 2 tabs along the bottom of the drib-down box: order & timing and effects.
4. For the moment, leave lodge & timing and concentrate on effects only.
5. Untick all of the boxes.
6. Tick the picture frame 1 box only. Any effects you apply will only affect the large pic in the background (Picture Frame 1).
7. For my e-carte, I want to proceed information technology pretty elementary. Under the tab for effects, click on the left-hand drop-down bill of fare and select checkerboard.
8. Click the right-hand drib-downward menu and select across.
9. Select preview on the right of the custom animation box to see whether you lot like this effect. Don't worry about timings yet, y'all will modify this later to get in look more smooth.
10. From the furnishings tab, practice the following: Remove the tick from the Picture Frame 1 box and put it in the next box. Click on the left-manus drop-downward card and select crawl. Click on the right-hand drib-down menu and select left.
11. Repeat footstep 10 until y'all take applied customised effects to every piece of text.

You can also reorder the text if yous want to do so. I wanted the "Merry Christmas" text to crawl upwards from the bottom of the screen concluding in my eastward-bill of fare and then make sure you lot make certain this blitheness is different from the other pieces of text.

Set the Order & Timing for Your E-Bill of fare

1. Click on the club & timing tab and ensure yous have your diverse east-card elements in the correct order.
2. Use the up or down arrows to reorder the elements of the e-card.
3. On the right-hand side, place a dot in the "automatically" area and select 0.02 seconds in the timing for each chemical element (you can tick them all at once, no need to do them separately).
4. Click OK.

Save Your Eastward-Card Slide

1. Salve your file; go to file and select save as...save information technology as both a .ppt file and a .pps file.
2. When you e-mail the file to colleagues, send the .pps version every bit an zipper.
3. When they click on it in their electronic mail, it will automatically open the file in Powerpoint.

Many thanks for reading.

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chandana on July 29, 2015:

it is good to see the way to brand greetings .just i wish it could ask merely proper noun or email adress only for login not also password

Adam Smith on February 23, 2015:

very helpful , thanks.

Jools Hogg (author) from North-East UK on March 12, 2013:

Duchess, I saved each PPT page every bit a .jpg file (the default is to save powerpoint slide pages as .ppt but if you use the drib down arrow, you tin select .jpg, sorry if I'm didactics my granny how to suck eggs :o), so transferred them over to Windows Movie Maker where I then added the captions and transitions.

Duchess OBlunt on March 12, 2013:

Well done. One question - how did you get the ppt to video without having to video record it? I'm thinking it'd be dainty to upload something made from ppt to you tube. Do y'all know?

Jools Hogg (author) from North-E UK on Feb 22, 2013:

donnah, thanks for the comment and the link - I will repay the favour!

Donna Hilbrandt from Upstate New York on February 21, 2013:

Wow, I missed this hub when y'all wrote it. I just wrote a similar hub effectually Valentines Solar day. I will add a link in mine to yours, and so people tin can take reward of all the available assist and advice.

Sophia Olivia from Los Angles on January 03, 2013:

Its such an amazing idea for designing and communicate with your friend... because this is big issue and nosotros have the liablity to wish our close friends with different type of way...

Jools Hogg (author) from North-East UK on December fifteen, 2012:

Esther, glad y'all found it useful :o)

Esther Strong from United kingdom on December 14, 2012:

I'm bookmarking this for future reference - including birthdays! Thanks for your clear instructions.

Jools Hogg (author) from Northward-East UK on December xiv, 2012:

Vellur, I always used to bask putting the little due east-carte together. The i I did here was a very simple one but I've done quite complex, blithe ones likewise, though, of course, they take a lot longer to create!

Nithya Venkat from Dubai on December xiii, 2012:

Very useful and clearly explained thanks for sharing. Voted up and shared.

Jools Hogg (author) from North-East Great britain on December 13, 2012:

Jeannie, glad you liked it. I was messing about a few years ago with Powerpoint and it came to me to do this...I am hands pleased!

Jools Hogg (author) from Due north-Eastward UK on December 13, 2012:

Audrey, glad you liked it, thanks for your annotate.

Jools Hogg (author) from North-East Britain on December thirteen, 2012:

Janine, cheers for your annotate - it'southward dead like shooting fish in a barrel to do (must exist if I tin can make one) :o)

Jools Hogg (writer) from North-East Uk on December 13, 2012:

Mike, thanks for your cooment - I have missed not doing one this year at present that I am non working and so I did the hub instead :o)

Jeannie Marie from Baltimore, Doc on December 13, 2012:

This is and then cute! I would take never thought to apply Powerpoint to make an E-Menu. Thanks for sharing your thought! Voted upwards and cute!

Audrey Howitt from California on December 12, 2012:

Wow! This is fabulous! Thank you!

Janine Huldie from New York, New York on December 12, 2012:

Such a dandy step-by-stride presentation here on how to brand an due east-menu on Powerpoint and truly loved it. Cheers for sharing this and am pinning to take a await at!!

Mike Robbers from London on December 12, 2012:

Splendid step-by-step instruction on how to create a Christmas East-Bill of fare with Powerpoint Jools.. Great also that you included the screen shots, makes it piece of cake for readers to follow.. Cheers very much for sharing !

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