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MS Powerpoint

MS-PowerPoint is a presentation program that allows users to create slideshows with text, images, and graphics. It includes tools for inserting and formatting content as well as displaying the slides. The interface of MS-PowerPoint contains components like a title bar, menu bar, toolbars, slide pane, and notes pane to help users build and navigate presentations. It also provides options to move between slides using scroll bars, arrow buttons, or keyboard shortcuts.

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MS Powerpoint

MS-PowerPoint is a presentation program that allows users to create slideshows with text, images, and graphics. It includes tools for inserting and formatting content as well as displaying the slides. The interface of MS-PowerPoint contains components like a title bar, menu bar, toolbars, slide pane, and notes pane to help users build and navigate presentations. It also provides options to move between slides using scroll bars, arrow buttons, or keyboard shortcuts.

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MS-PowerPoint Interface and components

A presentation program (also called a presentation graphics program) is a


computer software package used to display information, normally in the
form of a slide show. It typically includes three major functions: an editor
that allows text to be inserted and formatted, a method for inserting and
manipulating graphic images and a slide-show system to display the content.

MS-PowerPoint is the complete presentation graphic program, using which


one can create extremely satisfying presentations to get the desired results.
It allows the creation of presentations which can be a collection of slides,
speaker notes, handouts, or media clips, providing everything one needs to
communicate clearly to others.

Interface of MS-PowerPoint consist of various components as explained in


the image as

Window Purpose
Section
Title bar Contains the name of the presentation.
Menu bar Displays the names of menus to perform various tasks. Open menus by using
the mouse or the keyboard.
Toolbars Rows of buttons to access a wide range of commands. Each button is an icon
and accessed also by mouse. Usually standard and formatting toolbars are
displayed at top of the window.
Drawing toolbar It is displayed at bottom of window and has buttons to add shapes, clip art,
WordArt, change colors, and design aspects of objects.
Outline and The area that can display either an outline of the presentation’s text or
Slides pane thumbnails (miniature pictures of slides).
Slide pane Area to create, edit, and display presentation slides.
Notes pane The area to add presentation notes for presenter or audience.
Task pane An area which appear on right side of the window, showing a list of
commands relevant to the currently working task.
Scroll bars Used with the mouse to move a slide view wor outline text right or left and
up or down. You can also use the vertical scroll bar to move from slide to
slide.
View buttons Three buttons located in the lower-left corner of the window. You use these
buttons to switch between Normal view (the default), Slide Sorter view, and
Slide Show.
Status bar Displays information about the presentation you’re working on.

Moving in a presentation
PowerPoint provides several ways to move from slide to slide in a
presentation as

 Use the mouse to drag the scroll box.


 Use the mouse to click the Previous slide or Next slide buttons.
 Use the[Page{Up] and [Page{Down] keys on the keyboard

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