1. Open and view an existing PowerPoint presentation.
2. Switch views and navigate a presentation.
3. View a presentation in Slide Show View.
4. Plan a presentation.
5. Create a presentaion using a template.
6. Edit text on slides.
7. Add move and delete slides.
8. Promote and demote bulleted text.
9. Check the spelling in a presentation
10. Use the research task pane.
11. Create speaker notes.
12. Preview and print slides, handouts, and speaker notes.
Important Points:
1. PowerPoint is a presentation graphics program that
provides structure to produce an effective presentation of on-screen slides,
slide presentation on a web site, black-and-white or color overheads, or 35MM.
2. Slide pane view shows the current slide as it will look
during slide show.
3. Notes pane contains notes for the presenter.
4. Slides tab is on top when you first start PP. which display
a column of numbered slid thumbnails.
5. Outline tab show an outline of the titles and text of each
slide.
6. Slide transitions is the manner in which an new slide
appears on the screen.
7. Animation can be added to the elements on the slide. Flashy
animations are acceptable for informal, fun-orientated presentations but would
not be appropritate in formal business.
8. Progressive disclosure is a technique in which each element
on a slide appears one at a time.
9. Footer is a word or phrase that appears at the bottom of
each slide.
9a. Drop shadow - thin shadow on one side of a character.
10. Planning a presentation
11. purpose of the presentation
12. Type of presentation
13. Audience for the presentation.
14. Audience needs:
15. Location of the presentation:
16. Format:
17. template is a file that contains the colors and format of
the background, font styles, accents, etc.
18. Layout is a predetermined way of organizing the objects on
a slide.
19. Use a template in starting a presentation:Click office
button, click new, click new from existing list, select the template.
20. Save and name presentation. click Save, selcte the location
to sate to, type in filename, click save.
21. Modifying a Presentation.
22. Placeholder is a region of a slide or location in an
outline reserved for inserting text or graphics.
23. Text box is a container for text. when text box is active,
you can add or revise the text in it.
24. Object is something that can be manipulated or resizes as a
unit.
25. Sizing handles are used to make a text box or object
smaller or bigger.
26. Bulleted list is a list of paragraphs with special
characters to the left of each paragraph.
27. Bulleted items is one paragraph in a bulleted list.
28. First level bullet is a main paragraph in a bulleted list.
29. Second level bullet is a bullet beneath and indented from
first lever bullet.
30. Numbered list is a list of paragraphs that are numbered.
31. Title text is a text box at the top of the slide.
32. Slide content is a large text box in which you type a
bulleted or numbered list.
33. Delete slide- in normal vies, go to the slide, cick the
delete button on the slides group on the home tab, or click the disired slide
thumbnail in the slides tab, click the slide icon in the outline tab, or in
slide soreter view, select the slides you want to delete, and press the delete
key.
33a. Layout is a predeterminded way or organizing tthe objects on a slide
including p[lace holders for titl text and other objects. Nine built in layout
in power pint.
34. Text layouts: Title Slide - Title Only, Title and Text,
Title and 2 column text.
35. Content layouts: charts, diagrams, images, tales, movie
clips.
36. Text and content layouts.
37. Insert new slide - in the slides group on the home tab,
click the new slide button.
38. Promoting, Demoting and Moving outline text.
39. To promote an item means to increase the outline level of
that item. Decrease indent
40. To demote an item means to decrease the outline level.
increase indent
41. Moving slide in slide sorter view. - click on slide then
drag it to the new position.
42. Spell Checker - norm spelling check and contextual spelling
which checks the context in which a word is used. click office button, click
poowerpoint options button, click proffing in the left pane, make sure use
contextual spelling check box is selected, click ok.
43. Style checker checks your presentation for consistency in
grammar and visual elements.
44. Turn on style checker - tools, options, spelling and style
tab, check style, style options, slide title style, uppercase, body text style,
sentence case, Ok, Ok.
45. Light bulb appears next to problems in the slides, click
the light bulb and select the option that applies.
46. Research task pane used for online services and help for
creating presentation.
47. Thesaurus contains a list of words and their synonyms,
antonyms, and other related words.
48. Use Thesaurus:-click on word, in proffing group on the
review tab, click thesaurus button, in the list of synonyms click the word you
want, click the arrow in the box, click insert, click close.
49. Creating speaker notes: Go to slide, click on notes pane,
enter text.
50. Notes are printed pages that contain a picture of and notes
abut each slide.
51. Handouts are printouts of the slides;can be multiple slides
per page.
52. Preview presentation: click the office button, point to
print button, click print preview.
53. For grayscale: click options, point to color/grayscale,
click grayscale.
54. Remove background Graphics from slide: click design tab on
the ribbon, in backgroupnd group , click hide background graphics check box.
55. Print Handouts: in the page setup group on the print
preview tab, click print what list arrow, click handouts (4 slides per
page), click print, click ok.
56. Print notes pages: in the page setup group on the print
preview tab, click print what list arrow, click notes pages, click print, click
ok,