Foundation Level Course Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Foundation Level Course

What is PowerPoint? PowerPoint 2002 is the presentation graphics program in Office XP. Professionals can create eye-catching slides, handouts, outlines, and notes to deliver an impressive presentation.

The PowerPoint Environment Slide Pane Notes Pane Task Pane Outline and Slides Tabs

The Different PowerPoint Views The Normal view is the default view in PowerPoint. All slide editing is performed in this view. The Slide Sorter view displays all slides in your presentation as thumbnails. The Slide Show view allows you to view your presentation as a slide show. The Notes Page view displays how notes pages will print.

Toolbars PowerPoint has 13 toolbars including the Task Pane. By default, the Standard, Formatting, and Drawing toolbars are displayed.

Getting Help The Ask a Question Box allows you to type in key words relevant to the topic with which you would like help. The Office Assistant watches what you do and offers tips on how to work more productively. PowerPoint 2002 displays a Tip of the Day each time you start PowerPoint.

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Creating and Opening Presentations You can use the New Presentation Pane to: Open an existing presentation. Create a new blank presentation. Create a new presentation from a design template. Create a new presentation using the AutoContent Wizard. Create a new presentation from an existing presentation. Create a new presentation from a General Template, Template on the Web, or a Template from Microsoft.com.

Managing Presentations The Save As dialog box lets you save your presentation, make a back-up copy of your presentation, or save your presentation as a different file type.

Managing Slides With the Outline and Slides tabs or in Slide Sorter view, you can: Insert a new slide Insert a duplicate slide Reorder slides Copy slides Delete slides

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Working with Slide Masters The Slide Master contains slide formatting information applied to all slides in your presentation.

Working with the Handout Master The Handout Master contains handout formatting information applied to handouts and outline printouts.

Working with the Notes Master The Notes Master contains formatting information applied to all Notes Pages in your presentation.

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Working with Slide Layouts Slide layouts contain a different combination of text and content placeholders.

Applying Backgrounds Backgrounds can be applied to slides, handouts, and notes. Background options include colors, gradients, textures, patterns, and pictures.

Modifying Slide Attributes Alter Placeholders Insert the Date and Time Add Page Numbers Add a Footer

Paragraph Settings You can adjust: Paragraph and bullet indentations Tab settings Paragraph alignment Line spacing

Bullets and Numbering Bullets and Numbering are useful tools to divide your slide into points. Bullets and numbering come in different: Styles Sizes Colors

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Adding Text to a Slide

Formatting Text To format text, you need to select it before you can apply any formatting changes. You can format text using the Font dialog box.

Using Undo and Redo Click the Undo or Redo icons on the Standard toolbar to undo or redo one action. Click the down arrow beside the Undo and Redo icons to perform multiple undos and redos.

Using Find and Replace Type in the text you want to find in the Find what box. Type in the replacement text in the Replace with box.

Using Spell Check Running the spell check checks the entire presentation.

Using the Clipboard The Clipboard Pane allows you to view and paste multiple items from the Office Clipboard.

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Working with Slide Design The Slide Design Pane offers three easy ways to make your presentation look professional, colorful, and interesting. Design Templates Animation Schemes Color Schemes

Using Design Templates Design Templates offer a quick and easy way to provide an attractive and interesting design to your presentation.

Adding Color Schemes Color Schemes quickly add to or change the colors of your slides.

Applying Animation Schemes Preset animations are divided into subtle, moderate, and exciting schemes, and generally apply animations to titles, bulleted lists, and paragraphs.

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Drawing Lines and Shapes Draw a Line Draw an Arrow Draw a Rectangle Draw an Oval Fill Color Line Color Line Style Dash Style Arrow Style Shadow Style 3-D Style

Using AutoShapes AutoShapes are pre-drawn shapes that offer an easy alternative to drawing your own shapes.

Adding Clip Art and Pictures Clip Art includes drawings, photos, sounds, videos, and other media files that you can use in your PowerPoint presentation.

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects Grouping objects is useful when you need to make the same change to a group of objects, such as resizing or moving. Layering objects is useful when you have multiple objects on a slide and you want to ensure a particular object is on top or in the background.

Rotating and Flipping Objects Rotating an Object Flipping an Object

Aligning Objects Objects are aligned relative to the slide. Using grids and guides helps visually align objects.

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Using Page Setup Change slide, handouts, notes, and outline orientation Set slide size

Using Print Preview Prior to printing, you can see how each slide in your presentation looks by previewing your presentation.

Printing a Presentation Print your presentation from the Print dialog box.

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Running a Slide Show You can view a slide show from the first slide or current slide.

Navigating Slides During a slide show, you can navigate to the next slide, previous slide, or a specific slide.

Pointer Options By changing the pointer to a pen, you can write on your slides during the slide show.

Screen Options You can pause your slide show or turn your slide show screen black using Screen Options.

Adding Notes to the Slide Show You can add meeting minutes or action items to your presentation.

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