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Introduction To PowerPoint 2016

This document provides an overview of key features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016, including how to view and navigate presentations, create new presentations, add and format text and slides, apply transitions between slides, and print presentations or individual slides. The main views for presentations are Normal, Slide Sorter, and Slide Show views. Text and visual content can be added and formatted on slides using various tools and themes. New slides can be added in different layouts, including options for tables, charts, graphics, and videos. Transitions control how slides appear or disappear on screen. The print options allow printing full presentations, slide ranges, notes, or handouts with multiple slides per page.

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Introduction To PowerPoint 2016

This document provides an overview of key features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016, including how to view and navigate presentations, create new presentations, add and format text and slides, apply transitions between slides, and print presentations or individual slides. The main views for presentations are Normal, Slide Sorter, and Slide Show views. Text and visual content can be added and formatted on slides using various tools and themes. New slides can be added in different layouts, including options for tables, charts, graphics, and videos. Transitions control how slides appear or disappear on screen. The print options allow printing full presentations, slide ranges, notes, or handouts with multiple slides per page.

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Introduction to

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016

Viewing a Presentation
When you create a Blank Presentation in PowerPoint, the workspace opens in Normal view.
Normal view is divided into three areas:

1) Slide Pane - shows the full layout of a slide


2) Thumbnails – shows slide thumbnails
3) Notes Pane – used to input text relevant to a specific slide

Other views include Slide Sorter view which shows thumbnails of the entire presentation and
Slide Show view where you preview your presentation as your audience will see it.

Slide Pane

Thumbnails

Notes Pane

Normal Slide Slide


View Sorter Show
View View

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Creating a New Presentation
To Create a New Presentation:
1) Click on the File tab
2) Click on New
3) Select either a Blank Presentation, a featured theme or search for online templates and
themes
4) Double-click Blank Presentation to create a new presentation

Entering Text on a Slide


When you create a new presentation, the first slide to appear is a Title slide. It contains two
placeholders: a title placeholder and a subtitle placeholder. To add text, click within the
placeholder and type.

Placeholders

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Formatting
PowerPoint provides a wide variety of themes that apply a distinctive look to the text, bullets,
background colors, and graphics in a presentation. Using a theme is a big time-saver and
immediately adds a professional touch to your presentation. You can apply a theme when you
create a new presentation and you can change the theme as many times as you want.

To Apply a Theme:
1) Click on the Design tab
2) Select one of the themes in the Themes group

To see more themes, click on the dialog box launcher.

To Format Text:
1) Click within the placeholder
2) Select the text to format

3) Click on the Home tab


4) Click on the formatting buttons in either the Font or Paragraph groups
5) You can also use the Mini Tool Bar that appears when the text is selected

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Adding New Slides
Each slide in PowerPoint has a slide layout. Slide layouts contain formatting, positioning, and
placeholders for all of the content that appears on a slide.

PowerPoint includes nine built-in slide layouts:

To Add New Slides:


1) Click on the Home tab
2) Click on New Slide in the Slides group
3) Choose a slide layout

Content Slides:
If you choose a slide with content, you will have six types of content to choose from.

Tables Charts Smart Art Pictures Online Video


Graphics Pictures

Click on the type of content you want to create and PowerPoint will provide the tools needed to
create it.

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Applying Slide Transitions
A transition is a special effect that determines how a slide appears as it enters or leaves the
screen.
To Apply Transitions:
1) Click on the Transitions tab
2) Click on the drop down arrow in the Transition to This Slide group to see a listing of all
available transitions
3) Click on the transition you want to apply
4) Click on Apply to All to apply the transition effect to the entire presentation

Printing
To Print:
1) Click on the File tab
2) Click on Print

Under Settings click on Print All Slides and select one of the options to print:
 Print All Slides – print entire presentation
 Print Selection – only print the selected slides
 Print Current Slide – only print the current slide
 Custom Range – enter specific slides to print

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Printing Handouts, Notes and Outline
Click on Full Page Slides and choose from the following:
 Print Layout
o Full Page Slides
o Notes Pages
o Outline
 Handouts
o Choose between 1 – 9 slides per page (horizontal or vertical)

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