CUS POWERPOINT PRESENTATION Creating a new PowerPoint and retrieving it. Saving PowerPoint presentations is pretty straightforward. The trick is to use names that you can find later and also to remember where you saved your presentations.

Creating PowerPoint Choose a theme When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see some built-in themes and templates. A theme is a slide design that contains matching colours, fonts, and special effects like shadows, reflections, and more. Choose a theme. Click Create, or pick a colour variation and then click Create.

Saving a PowerPoint In the Slide tab, to the left of your presentation, select the slide you want to save. Note: If you don’t see the Slide tab, click View > Normal

Working with slides In Presentation, a slide is a container for the elements like shapes, images, charts, text box etc. The slides may inherit the formatting and layout properties from its Master and Layout slides that reside in the PowerPoint presentation.

Entering and editing texts Selection Method Technique Drag To create a highlighted selection, point at one end of the text to be selected. Press and hold the mouse button while dragging the pointer to the other end of the text, then release the mouse button. Select a word Double-click anywhere on the word you want to select Select a bullet item Press [Ctrl] and click anywhere inside the bulleted text. You may also triple-click anywhere on the word you want to select. Deselect Make another selection or click the mouse button in the text area.

What is a slide master A slide master is the top slide in a hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning.

Views To be in Slide view you click on the following button located in the bottom-left hand corner of any slide: The Slide view shows a single slide. In Slide view, you work on one slide at time. Here, you can type your slide title and body, add other text to the slide, draw shapes, add clip art, choose a colour scheme, make a graph, etc. In Slide view, you have access to all the tools on the Tool Palette as well as buttons on the Toolbar.

Setting up a slide show Select the Slide Show tab. Click the Set Up Show command

Creating notes page Use the notes pane in Normal view to write notes about your slides. To get to Normal view, on the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Normal.

Slide sorter Slide Sorter view provides the user with the ability to select several slides at one time. Once selected, transitions or other effects can be applied to the slides with fewer keystrokes than if the slides were displayed individually. In addition to Slide Sorter view, PowerPoint allows Normal and Slide Show views. Slide Show view presents slides one at a time in full screen format, similar to the finished presentation.

Moving and copying slides Click View, and then in the Presentation Views group, click Normal. In the slide thumbnails on the left side, click the slide that you want to copy: To select multiple sequential slides, click the first slide, press SHIFT, and then click the last slide that you want. To select multiple non-sequential slides, press CTRL, and then click each slide that you want. Right-click the selected slide, and then click Copy. Right-click the thumbnail you want your copied slides to follow in the second presentation Under Paste Options, do one of the following: To take the theme of the destination presentation, click Use Destination Theme Use Destination Theme . To maintain the theme of presentation you are copying from, click Keep Source Formatting Keep Source Formatting .

Normal view You can view your PowerPoint slides in a variety of ways depending on the task at hand. Some views are helpful when you're creating your presentation, and some are most helpful for delivering your presentation. You can find the different PowerPoint view options on the View tab, as shown below.

Working with SmartArt

Animations and transitions You can animate the text, pictures, shapes, tables, SmartArt graphics, and other objects in your PowerPoint presentation to give them visual effects, including entrances, exits, changes in size or color, and even movement. Build a slide presentation that animates bullet points or even production credits. Animation is a great way to focus on important points, to control the flow of information, and to increase viewer interest in your presentation. You can apply animation effects to text or objects on individual slides, to text and objects on the slide master, or to placeholders on custom slide layouts. For related information, see Make words appear one line at a time. Note: In PowerPoint, animations are not the same as transitions. A transition animates the way one slide changes to the next. To add a transition, see Add, change, or remove transitions between slides.

Adding multimedia features Create your presentation. (Optional) Record and add narration and timings to a slide show and Turn your mouse into a laser pointer. Save the presentation.

Presentation skills Be personable, ask questions, use diagrams, use charts and graphs, and use lots of images and pictures.

Printing presentation On the File tab, click Print. Under Printer, click the down arrow and pick a printer.

Under Settings, click the down arrow next to Print All Slides, and then pick the slides you want to print:

lick the down arrow next to Full Page Slides, and then pick a print layout. The thumbnail images below show a preview of how the pages will look when printed.

Click the down arrow next to Print on Both Sides, and then pick a page format.

Click Collated, and then pick a preference for organizing your printout. If your printer does not offer collation, this option may be grayed out. Click Staples to pick a preference for stapling your printouts. If your printer does not offer staples, this option may be grayed out. Click Grayscale, and pick a color scheme for your printout.

In the Copies box, enter the number of copies you want, and then click Print.