Introduction:
PowerPoint is an application used for the creation of presentations. These presentations are laid out in a "storyboard" type fashion, where individual slides are created and formatted with text and images. PowerPoint presentations are widely used in classrooms as note outlines for teachers and for project presentations by students.
The
point of the slides in PowerPoint presentations is NOT to fit as much detailed
information as you can onto a single slide. Rather, each slide should contain
elements that briefly sum up the major idea(s) of what you will be presenting
for the duration of the slide.
The
style in which you create slides is completely up to you. PowerPoint allows you
to choose from a wide variety of formats that include sections such as titles,
lists, images, or charts. Any of these can be incorporated into your
presentation. The main thing to keep in mind, however, is that an audience will
be viewing this material; it must be large enough to read, yet not so large
that it takes up far too much of the screen to include relevant.
Across the top of the screen, you’ll notice a toolbar that looks similar to ones used in word processing program. These tools allow you to format and edit text and other elements in your slide.
On the left side of the screen, there’s a panel with two tabs called “Slides” and “Outline” this allows you to view all of your slides in your slideshow as small images (in the “Slides” mode) or as text (you can view as text if you click on the “Outline” tab).
The panel on the bottom has more tools for editing your slides, such as Drawing and AutoShapes.
How to Start M.S. Power Point
1. Start à All Programsà Microsoft Officeà MS-Power Point
2. Start à All Programsà Microsoft Officeà MS-Power Point à Right
Click à Send
To à Desktop
3. Start à Run à
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About the Slides: On any given slide in a
PowerPoint presentation, you can present your information in a variety of ways.
You can type in text using text boxes, insert images or sounds, create charts,
graphs, or lists, and make text columns. Each separate element in a slide (be
it text or an image) is considered its own object, and can be moved and
modified independently from other objects in a slide.
The
Task Pane: The panel on the right side of
the screen is actually called the “Task Pane.” As the name implies, it controls
all the main slide control tasks for your presentation. If you ever lose sight
of this panel, go to the menu bar in PowerPoint, navigate to “View,” select the
“Toolbars” menu, and make sure “Task Pane” is selected or you can get it by
pressing “CTRL+F1”.
