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Microsoft PowerPoint 1: PowerPoint Basics
Objective: To provide an overview of PowerPoint’s various toolbars and options, and give an introduction to slide creation.
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Capabilities
• Commercial presentation program with two major capabilities.
– Slide Creation– Presentation Delivery
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Capabilities: Slide Creation
• Slides hold the information in your presentation.
• Can include many objects:– Text, Images, Movies, Graphs, Tables
• PowerPoint provides preset design options.
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Capabilities: Presentation Delivery
• PowerPoint creates a presentation environment.
• Slide organization, animation, customized presentation modes are all available.
• Gives control over the flow of the presentation.
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Basic Layout
– Start menu (All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft PowerPoint)
– PowerPoint program shortcut– Saved PowerPoint file
Top
Middle
Bottom
To Open PowerPoint:
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Office Button & Quick Access Toolbar
• The Office Button
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• Office Button Menu– Opens when you
click on the Office Button.
– Main program options.
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Office Button: Save Window• Saving your
document is very important.
Popular Directories
Current Directory
File Name
Save Button
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Ribbon Bar
• The Ribbon bar is made up of eight tabs:– Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review,
and View
• Contains the main document options.
Ribbon Bar Tabs
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Ribbon Bar: Home, Insert, & View Tabs
The Home tab provides many options for formatting slides and adding new slides to your presentation
The View tab provides options for changing how your document is displayed.
The Insert tab provides options for adding content to your slide.
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Status Bar
Presentation Information
Presentation View Options
Zoom Slider
• The Status Bar provides quick, easy access to important presentation options.
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Work Area
Notes Area
Slides Pane
Slide Creation Area
• Split into three different sections.
• Middle area displays Presentation content and design.
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Video 1
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Video 2
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Video 3
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Video 4
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Microsoft PowerPoint 1: Wrap-Up
• Become an expert at the basics:– Program layout– Basic options– Slide Creation
