How to Create an Editable PowerPoint

 

How to Create an Editable PowerPoint, Step-by-Step:

Good news: you can create an editable PowerPoint.  

More good news: you can flatten the un-editable portions of your images, by saving them as jpgs, then copying and pasting those jpgs back into a blank PowerPoint--page by page.  That way, no one can lift out the clip art and text. On top of those jpgs, you can insert the editable fields.

Bad news: the ppt will not be secure.  Also, the quality of a simple jpg will not be quite as crisp and clear when you print it, as a pdf would be.  

You can go into your systems to increase the dpi of your jpgs. But the printed PowerPoint pages will still not look super-clear.

Or...

For MUCH CRISPER EDITABLE PPTs

You'll need Adobe Acrobat DC Pro.

·         Prep the PowerPoint (ppt): make a copy of the ppt, and from this copy, remove all editable fields including any print with hyperlinks.  

    

    Keep only the backgrounds, borders, graphics, images, and clipart that you want to be flattened so no one can lift them out of the doc.

    Also, keep any text that will be non-editable!

·         Remove page #s if desired, and add one page with a blank border, to add text and a TOC Table of Contents

·         Open ppt/ save as / adobe pdf

·         Tools/ export pdf/ image/ JPG [Select JPG, then click on the settings sprocket icon next to it]

·         Settings/Gray scale quality: maximum/ Color: maximum

·         Format: progressive (5 scans) / [USE DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR ALL OTHERS]

·         OK/ Export/ Select an Empty folder or Create a folder called: [Doc Name] JPGs / Save

·          Next, create a new ppt called: [Doc Name] JPGs AND: Import the jpgs one at a time onto each blank page of the ppt

·         Add editable text fields from original ppt as necessary, including Title page, TOC page text, and terms of use page text--with hyperlinks--which will be inserted into a blank border page

--   Add any text that you wish, that will not be flattened.   Buyers can edit this.

--  Tell buyers that they can add any text they wish, and explain how to add a text box:  Insert > Textbox > [Type inside the box; edit the color, size, font; click and drag the box anywhere on the page.]

·         Shrink borders for proper printing, slim at left and top, a bit wider extra border at right and © at above 1” from the bottom, if necessary for proper printing

·         Save as ppt [Doc Name] EDITABLE w JPGs

I hope this helps you to create editable PowerPoints that will print out super-crisp and clear.

If you'd like to know how to create an editable and secure PDF, step-by-step, it's here!

 

Poetry Writing for Kids: Similes

Kids can write poetry — and similes that dazzle.  It's fun, fascinating, and mind-stretching.  So, let's take off our gloves and pack a punch with our teaching!

Earth is like a boat…

…because they’re both floating, they’re both alone, traveling across long distances, carrying people.

But a ship is not the first simile to come to mind. 

When you ask a kid, at first they might say:  Earth is like a…planet.

No, you say, Earth is a planet.  Tell me something different that Earth is like.  It can be the same color, shape, size, texture, or action as Earth—but otherwise very different.

OK, Earth is like an apple because they’re both round.

That’s good.  Now let’s go deeper.  What’s the same color AND shape?  Earth is like a blueberry.  They are both blue and round.  And besides that they are both fragile and easily destroyed.

Very good!  What else?  Earth is like an eye.  An eye can be green and blue, and, like the people on Earth, it sees stuff.  You can even ask of the Earth, “What have you seen?”

So, which simile packs the most emotional punch?

That depends.   What else do you want to say about the Earth?  Is it crowded—like a zoo?  Is it big and lonely—like a blue whale?

Is it alive—like a garden?  Or desolate—like a desert?

Simile isn’t just a matter of finding something similar.  It’s finding the thing that’s the most similar to how you feel about your object.

Go deeper…

Pack an emotional punch…

What else does your subject mean to you?

Once you get the hang of similes, you can’t stop noticing connections and associations.  

• An iguana is like a pickle, because they’re both green, bumpy and strange.  
• A spider is like a robber because they’re both creeping and frightening.  
• A sea shell is like a cave, because they both have deep, dark spaces.  
• A flower is like a soldier, because they both stand tall and weather a storm.

If you teach your kids to write spectacular poems with similes that “punch,” they’ll never see the world the same.  Because then, all of life will be like a poem!