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What Is Powerpoint?: Master Which Will Be Covered in The Tutorial

PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create professional slideshows. It provides tools for adding text, images, graphs and other media. A PowerPoint presentation consists of multiple slides that can be viewed individually or presented as a slideshow. It offers different views for organizing, editing and adding notes to slides. These views include Slide, Outline, Sorter and Notes views. PowerPoint also provides templates and themes to help format slide content and appearance.

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What Is Powerpoint?: Master Which Will Be Covered in The Tutorial

PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create professional slideshows. It provides tools for adding text, images, graphs and other media. A PowerPoint presentation consists of multiple slides that can be viewed individually or presented as a slideshow. It offers different views for organizing, editing and adding notes to slides. These views include Slide, Outline, Sorter and Notes views. PowerPoint also provides templates and themes to help format slide content and appearance.

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What is PowerPoint?

PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you


need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word
processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all
designed to be easy to use and learn.

The following gives you a quick overview of what you can do in PowerPoint:

 When you create a presentation using PowerPoint, the presentation is made up


of a series of slides. The slides that you create using PowerPoint can also be
presented as overhead transparencies or 35mm slides.

 In addition to slides, you can print audience handouts, outlines, and speaker's
notes.

 You can format all the slides in a presentation using the powerful Slide
Master which will be covered in the tutorial.

 You can keep your entire presentation in a single file- all your slides, speaker's
notes, and audience handouts.

 You can import what you have created in other Microsoft products, such as
Word and Excel into any of your slides.

Getting Started and Working in PowerPoint

This tutorial is unlike the others you have seen in class. The PowerPoint tutorial will
be text based. To get the most out of this tutorial it is best to run PowerPoint, so that
you can experiment with the concepts that are mentioned in the tutorial.
Find and open PowerPoint.

When the Tip of the day dialog box appears,

Read it and click on the OK button.

The following PowerPoint dialog box should appear, asking you how you want to
create your new presentation.

Here is a brief description of the options under the Create a New Presentation
Using title.

 AutoContent Wizard- takes you through the creation of a simple presentation


step by step.

 Pick a Look Wizard- this wizard helps you make choices on how your
presentation will look.

 Template- PowerPoint provides 160 templates that you can choose from. The
templates are created by professional artists and offer design choices in black
and white as well as in color.
 Blank Presentation- this option allows you to select slides and format them
individually.

Select Blank Presentation and click on the OK button.

In the New Slide dialog box select the Title Slide option.

Your screen should look as follows:


This is your title slide you can enter the title and sub-title here. Note that if your
toolbars are not visible, choose Toolbars from the View menu and make your
selections.

Experiment with your title slide by entering in text, changing the color of
the text, changing the font size etc.

Now that you have been introduced to a slide, it is time to learn about PowerPoint's
different Views.

Understanding PowerPoint Views

PowerPoint gives you four views in which you create and organize your presentation.
As you create a presentation, you can switch among the four views as you work.

The four PowerPoint views are:

Slide View-
To be in Slide view you click on the following button located in the bottom-left hand
corner of any slide: ( ).
The Slide view shows a single slide. In Slide view, you work on one slide at at time.
Here, you can type your slide title and body, add other text to the slide, draw shapes,
add clip art, choose a color scheme, make a graph, etc. In Slide view, you have access
to all the tools on the Tool Palette as well as buttons on the Toolbar.

Outline View-
To be in Outline view you click on the following button located in the bottom-left
hand corner of any slide: ( ).

The Outline view shows all the titles and body text in your presentation. In Outline
view, you can move slides around within your presentation and also edit your text.
Click on the Outline view button ( ), to view your title slide in this
view.

Slide Sorter View-


To be in Slide Sorter view you click on the following button located in the bottom-left
hand corner of any slide: ( ).

The Slide Sorter view shows you a minature of each slide in your presentation. You
can drag slides around on the screen to reposition them in this view. You can also
select and copy multiple slides should you want to use them in other presentations.

Click on the Slide Sorter view button ( ), to view your title slide in this
view.

Notes View-
To be in Notes view you click on the following button located in the bottom-left hand
corner of any slide: ( ).

The Notes view lets you create speaker's notes. Each page corresponds to a slide in
your presentation and includes a reduce image of the slide. You can draw and type in
Notes view the way you can in Slide View.

Click on the Notes view button ( ), to view your title slide in this view.

You now know all of PowerPoint's views. There is one more button located in the
bottom- left hand corner of any slide:( ). This is the Slide Show button. The Slide
Show button runs a slide show starting from the currently selected slide.

Now that you know all of PowerPoint's views it is time to learn how to work within a
slide. In general, presentations will be based on a Master Slide. The next topic in the
tutorial will focus on understanding PowerPoint Masters.

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