Microsoft presentation software (PowerPoint) includes text-editing and graphics tools that can create slides for public presentations. The presentations can be printed, projected, displayed on a monitor, saved and published as Web pages.
How to start Ms – PowerPoint Program
- Open ‘Start’ menu
- Go to Programs
- Choose Microsoft – office
- Choose Microsoft – PowerPoint program
- Ms – window will appear
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Exploring Ms – PowerPoint Window
- Title Bar
- Menu Bar
- Standard Bar
- Formatting Toolbar
- Vertical and Horizontal Ruler Bars
- Working place
- Horizontal + Vertical Scroll Bars
- Status Toolbars
- Task bars
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Understanding PowerPoint Views
- Slide view
- Outline view
- Slide sorter
- Notes pages
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Starting a new presentation
- Open file menu
- Click new
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Exercise 1
p Create a new blank presentation
Entering text
- Choose the text layout i.e. title and subtitle
- Click to add title
- Type the title
- Click to add subtitle
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Add a preset design
- Open format menu
- Choose ‘slide design’
- Choose the design template you want in the look in section
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Adding new slide
- From the slide layout dialog box, select the layout i.e bulleted list\
- Type the title
- Type the details
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Changing the slide layout
- Open format menu
- Choose slide layout
- Choose the layout you want i.e text and clipart
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Entering drawings
- Double click on the Clipart placeholder
- Choose the cartoon you want
- Click ok
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Moving through the slides
- Use double arrows button on the scroll bar to move to the previous or next slide
- Or press the page up and page down keys on the keyboard
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Deleting slides
- Move to the slide to be deleted
- From edit menu
- Select delete slide
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Saving a presentation
- Open file menu
- Click “Save as”
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Dialog box appears
- Choose the location of the file i.e. D:/
- Type the file Name
- Click Save
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Opening the presentation
- Open the ‘file’ Menu
- Choose ‘open’
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Dialog box appears:-
- Specify the location of the file i.e. D:/
- Click ‘Open’
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Saving An Existing presentation
- Open ‘File’ menu
- Click ‘SAVE’
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Closing the presentation
- Open the file Menu
- Click close or click X button
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Exit Ms – PowerPoint
- Open file Menu
- Click EXIT