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
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