Power Point Introduction to Computers
Opening and Viewing Presentations Click on the Start button (bottom-left of your screen). From the popup menu displayed click on All Programs. Click on a submenu option called Microsoft Office. Finally click on Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
Opening a presentation TIP: A shortcut to open a file is Ctrl+O.
Navigating between slides To move to the next slide press the Page Down key. Press the Page Up key to display the previous slide.
Using the Zoom tool
Changing PowerPoint views NORMAL VIEW Slide Sorter view Slide Show View
Saving a presentation The extension of a power point file is.ppt For and.pptx for
Creating a Presentation Start PowerPoint. You will see a screen as illustrated.
Inserting a new slide There are two parts to this button. Try clicking on the upper part of this button, i.e. the part that contains an icon picture that represents a new slide (we will see the effect of clicking on the lower part of this button later). You can now see two 'slide thumbnails' displayed to the left of your screen. The layout of the slide that you have just inserted is different.
PowerPoint Presenter Notes
Manipulating Slides
Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
Modifying the slide layout
Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation
Themes
Applying a theme to a presentation
Text Boxes (Placeholders)
What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?
Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)
Text AutoFit
Text direction
Selecting, copying moving, resizing and deleting text
Searching Your Presentation Using Find Using Replace
Font Formatting Same as MS Word
Paragraph Formatting Same as Word
Tables
Table Selection
Applying a style to a table Cell Shading & Effects
Table Split Cells Merge Cells Delete row Delete Column Insert row Insert Column
Illustrations
Inserting pictures Inserting Clip Art Inserting Shapes Inserting SmartArt
Layering illustrations to the front or back
Aligning graphics relative to each other or relative to the slide
Grouping and ungrouping objects
Creating a footer
Slide Show
Running a slide show
Slide show transition effects
Slide show animation effects
Hiding slides
Printing and Proofing
Spell-Checking
Selecting your output format
Printing a presentation