1. Power Point Introduction to Computers

2. 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.

3. Opening a presentation TIP: A shortcut to open a file is Ctrl+O.

4. Navigating between slides To move to the next slide press the Page Down key. Press the Page Up key to display the previous slide.

5. Using the Zoom tool

6. Changing PowerPoint views NORMAL VIEW Slide Sorter view Slide Show View

7. Saving a presentation The extension of a power point file is.ppt

8. Creating a Presentation Start PowerPoint. You will see a screen as illustrated.

9. 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.

10. PowerPoint Presenter Notes

11. Manipulating Slides

12. Inserting slides with a particular slide layout

13. Modifying the slide layout

14. Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation

15. Themes

16. Applying a theme to a presentation

17. Text Boxes (Placeholders)

18. What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?

19. Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)

20. Text AutoFit

21. Text direction

22. Selecting, copying moving, resizing and deleting text

23. Searching Your Presentation Using Find Using Replace

24. Font Formatting Same as MS Word

25. Paragraph Formatting Same as Word