Computer Information Technology – Section 5-1 Some text and examples used with permission from: Note: We not endorsing or promoting religious doctrine, but simply taking advantage of this website for educational purposes.
PowerPoint is a complete graphics presentation program. Presentations are also called slide shows PowerPoint includes: Word Processing – same features as Word Outlining - Charting – create and insert charts and graphs Drawing – Same tools as Word Multimedia – add sounds and videos
Basic Unit of PowerPoint is the slide Slides contain one or many objects Objects are the building blocks for slides Objects can be a title, text, graphics, tables, charts, drawings, etc. PowerPoint assumes the first slide in a new presentation is the Title Slide The title slides purpose is to introduce the presentation to the audience.
PowerPoint has 3 main views: Normal view, slide sorter and slide show. A view is the mode in which the presentation appears on the screen. Change views by clicking the buttons in the lower right corner
Normal view has 3 working areas: Tabs Pane (Outline and Slides) Slide Pane Notes Pane
The Office Button has same buttons as Word: New, Open, Save, Print, Prepare, Send, Publish and Close.
Home ribbon has many of the same groups and commands as Word: Clipboard: Cut, Copy, Paste, and Forma t Painter Fonts Paragraph Editing There are a few new groups…
The Slides group contains: New Slide: Create a new slide after the current slide Layout: Change the layout for the current slide Reset: Resets the position, size and formatting for the current slide Delete: Delete the slide.
Select the layout for the slide or… Duplicate existing slides Create slides from an outline Reuse slides from a different talk.
Select a different layout for the current slide
There are 2 new buttons in the formatting group: Shadow – Adds a shadow effect to the font. Character Spacing – Adjusts the spacing between characters on the slide:
The Drawing group allows you do the common drawing commands from the home ribbon. These commands are very similar to the Drawing ribbon in Word.
PowerPoint is a graphics presentation tool PowerPoint includes Word Processing, Outlining, Charting, Drawing and Multimedia PowerPoint ribbons share many of the same buttons as Word.
Mavis Beacon grade: Open Mavis Beacon Print your report Put your name on the report and turn it in. Notebook check at the end of this week – I will look for notes on PowerPoint…