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Presentation Lesson One

This document provides a comprehensive guide on using Microsoft PowerPoint for creating presentations. It covers essential skills such as preparing slides, adding and formatting text, applying designs, and utilizing different views. The learner will also learn to incorporate graphics, animations, and organizational charts into their presentations.

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Presentation Lesson One

This document provides a comprehensive guide on using Microsoft PowerPoint for creating presentations. It covers essential skills such as preparing slides, adding and formatting text, applying designs, and utilizing different views. The learner will also learn to incorporate graphics, animations, and organizational charts into their presentations.

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PRESENTATION GRAPHICS

At the end of the chapter the learner shall be able to;


• Prepare a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Use pictures and objects
• Use animation in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Create organization charts using the Microsoft PowerPoint tools
• Create graphs using the Microsoft PowerPoint tools

MS POWERPOINT
INTRODUCTION
What is PowerPoint?
This is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you
need to produce a professionally looking presentation. It enables you to express
your ideas in graphics, text and objects all in one.

What is presentation?
It is a collection of slides, handouts, speaker’s note, and outline all in one file. As
create a slide you are creating a presentation, giving it a format that will carry
through from beginning to the end.

What is a slide?
Slides are individual pages of your presentation. Slides have titles, text, drawn
objects, shapes, clip arts, and visuals created with other application.

Starting PowerPoint
From the start menu select programs and the move to PowerPoint and click.
By default it creates a new presentation 1 for you with a window shown below.
8.1 Starting a presentation
1. Type the title and anything else on the layout on the first slide
2. On the “Home tab”, click “New Slide” and select a new layout for the next
slide.
3. Repeat steps 2 for each new slide.

N.B: You can put as many slides as desired.

8.2 ADDING AND FORMATTING TEXT


Add text.
Normally the easiest way to add text to a slide is to type directly into any
placeholder that accommodates text. However when you want to add text
outside a placeholder you use “Text Box tool on the format tab.

Changing the font and color of the text


1. Highlight the text to be formatted
2. From the home tab click font
3. Choose the desired font size color e.t.c
Add, change or remove a bullet
After you create a bulleted text, you can change the look of the bullets: their size,
shape, color, e.t.c
To change a bullet, you need to highlight the test associated with the bullets.
You cannot highlight a bullet.
1. Highlight the text
2. In the home tab, select bullets
3. Choose from the variety of bullets and click
4. Specify things like color and the size.

FORMATTING YOUR SLIDE


Colors and designs are added to slides in a presentation for enhancement.
They also help in capturing the attention of the audience. You can either add
a background color, apply design or both.

Applying background
1. Choose the slide you want to apply background (if you have several) by
scrolling.
2. In the design tab, chose the background you desire.

Applying design
1. Choose the slide you want to design.
2. In the design tab chose, the desired design.

8.3 WORKING WITH DIFERENT VIEWS


A slide can be looked at in different angles. These views help a lot while working
on your presentations.
To access the views, click the view tab. The most common views are:

1. Slide: Views individual slide.


2. Outline: Views all slides (outlined). NB.Graphics & Text effects cannot be
viewed in outline.
3. Slide sorter: Miniatures all slides in your presentation. You can animate,
transit, sort etc in this view.
4. Slide show: Complete presentation is run in this view.

Deleting a slide
1. Select the slide you want to delete
2. On the home tab, click Delete

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