Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorial

This Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial for beginners will help you to learn
how to start and create it. This post will give you the step by step
details and tips on how to make your presentation attractive and
presentable. All the basics of PowerPoint, such as adding new slides,
a header, and a footer, selecting themes, how to use transitions and
animations, etc. will be covered here. So let us get started.

PowerPoint Tutorial for Beginners

PowerPoint is a component of the Microsoft Office suite, and it helps
you make effective presentations and computer slide shows.

How to start PowerPoint

To start PowerPoint, click on the Start button and scroll down or
search for PowerPoint. Click on the result to open it. Then further
select a Blank Presentation. A new blank PowerPoint presentation
will open.
 On the Ribbon above, you can see various tabs such as:

1. File
2. Home
3. Insert
4. Design
5. Transitions
6. Animations
7. Slide Show
8. Review
9. View
10. Help

Let us learn about them in detail.

How to use PowerPoint

You will see the following tabs:

1] Home

In the Home tab, you will find various groups such as clipboard,
slides, font, paragraph, drawing, and editing. You can use the cut,
copy, paste, and format painter functions from the Clipboard group.

In the Slides group, you can add a new slide to the presentation with
the layout of your choice. You can reset the position, size, and
formatting of the slide placeholders to their default settings.
You can choose a new font and change the font size for the text. The
Font group offers more options to make the text bold, italicize the
text, underline the text, change the case, adjust the spacing
between the characters, etc. You can also change the font color and
highlight the text in bright colors.
In the Paragraph group, you can create a bulleted list, numbered
list, increase or decrease indent, and adjust the space between lines
of text. You can align the text to left, right, center, or evenly
distribute your text between the margins. You can add or remove
columns and also choose the width and spacing of your columns.
Under Text Direction, you will find options to change the orientation
of the text to vertical, stacked, or rotate it to the desired direction.

The Convert to Smart Art Graphic helps you organize and present
the information in forms of a process, cycle, relationship, hierarchy,
etc.
From the Drawing group, you can insert various shapes such as
squares, circles, arrows, flowcharts, action buttons, and many more.
To the shapes, you can add different visual styles to change its
appearance.
Try the shape fill and shape outline to fill the selected shape with
solid color, gradient, texture, pattern, and outline of different line
styles and width.
You can add different shape effects such as glow, shadow,
reflection, etc. to the selected shape.
In the Editing group, you can find the text you want and replace it
with something else.

2] Insert

The Insert tab is divided into various groups related to slides, tables,
images, illustrations, add-ins, links, comments, text, symbols, and
media.

You can add a new slide to the presentation. You can also add a
table of numerous rows and columns as per your preference to
display the information nicely.
From the Images and Illustrations group, you can add pictures from
the computer as well as online, add shapes, icons, 3D models, etc.
You can also insert a Smart Art Graphic and chart.

Another important group that you need to know about is the Text.
You can draw a text box anywhere on the slide and add the desired
text in it. The Header and Footer can also be added along with slide
numbers displayed at the bottom of every slide. Insert WordArt to
add some artistic flair to the text in order to enhance it and make it
look attractive. Choose the appropriate one of your choice from the
given options.

3] Design

The Design tab consists of Themes, Variants, and Customize groups.

PowerPoint has a large number of themes that you can choose from
to give your presentation the right look and the right feel. Each
theme has its own unique set of colors, fonts, and effects which
creates a unique personality for the presentation.
In the Variants group, you will find options to customize the look of
the current design.

In the Customize group, you will be able to change the size of the
slide as per your requirement. Go through the available options.
You can format the background with a solid fill, texture fill, gradient
fill, and also hide background graphics.

4] Transitions

In the Transitions tab, you will find commands related to previewing,

transitions to the slide, and timing.
There are tons of options for transitions such as fade, uncover, flash
and many more. You can set sound and duration as well for each
slide.

5] Animations

In the Animations tab, there are groups related to previewing,

animation, advanced animation, and timing.

You can add animations to selected objects and set duration for the
same.
6] Slide Show

Here, you will find options to start the slide show from the beginning
or from the current slide. You will find advance options for the slide
show as well. You can hide a slide so that it does not appear while
the presentation is playing. You will also find an option to record the
slide show.

7] Review
In the Review tab, proofing will help you check for any grammatical
errors or typos. Insights will help you learn more about the text you
select by seeing definitions, images, and other results from various
online sources.

8] View

The View tab consists of various groups related to presentation

views, master views, show, zoom, color/grayscale, window, and
macros.

Depending on what view you select, you will be able to view your
presentation in that form. The various forms of Presentation views
include normal, outline view, slide sorter, notes page, and reading
view.

9] Help

You can get help from a Microsoft support agent and give feedback.

10] File

The File tab includes functions such as save, save as, print, share,
export, and other PowerPoint options.

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