April 2013

Lesson 1: Power Point Screen

Title Bar: Appears at the top of the screen, displays the title of the current presentation.

Menu Bar: Displays the menu, you use menu to give instructions to presentation

Rulers: Rulers are vertical and horizontal guides, which are used to determine the position to place the objects. They are marked in inches.

Standard and Formatting Toolbar: These are shortcuts to menu commands.

Placeholder: Used to hold the objects in your slide.

Status Bar: Displays the number of slides your presentation contain.

Outline Tab: Displays the text contained in your presentation.

Slides Tab: Displays a thumbnail of all your slides. click the thumbnail to view the slide in the Slide pane

View Buttons: appear at the tight bottom of the screen. you can change the views using these buttons.

Lesson 2: Power Point Screen

Click and add the title and subtitle for the presentation.

Create New Slides

1. To Create new Slide

after done with the title slide, insert a new slide . To create a new slide.

Choose insert > new slide from the menu

Click on the icon

Or else press Ctrl + M

2. To Select a Layout, click the layout you want in the apply slide layout pane.The layout will appear in the slide pane.

3.To add text, click inside the placeholder and type

4.To add an additional slide to your presentation do one of the following:

Right-click on the slide layout. A menu will appear. Choose Insert New Slide.
Click the down arrow next to the slide layout. A menu will appear). Choose Insert New Slide.

Apply A Design Template

They Provide good backgrounds for your presentations. To apply a design template

1. Do one of the following

Choose Format>Slide Design from the menu

Click the Slide Design icon

Design templates will appear on the right side of the screen.

2.To apply a design template to all of the slides in your presentation do one of the following:

Click on the design template.
Right-click on the template. A menu will appear. Choose Apply to All Slides.
Click on the down arrow next to the template. A menu will appear. Choose Apply to All Slides.

Sorter View

After you have created your Power Point Slides, you can move, cut, copy, paste, duplicate and view them in Sorter view. To view the slides in Sorter view, do the following:

Choose View > Slide Sorter from the menu.
Click the Slide Sorter View icon.

Run Your PowerPoint Slide Show

Once you have created your slides, you can run your Slide Show

Do any one of the following:

Press F5, on the Keyboard
Choose Slide Show > View Show from the menu.
Click the Slide Show icon , which is located in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Your slideshow will appear on your screen.

Tips:

To Start the slide show from the current slide, press Shift + F5.
To Go to a Particular slide, when the slideshow is running, Press the slide no. and click enter.

Print Your Slides

PowerPoint provides you with many printing options.
To print:

Choose File and Print from the menu. The Print Preview area will be shown on the right window. or else Click Ctrl + P
Click the down arrow next to the Print What field.
Select what you would like to print.
Click the Print icon. The Print dialog box will open.
Select whether you want your slides to print in color, grayscale, or black and white. If you are using a black and white printer, choose black and white. You will use less ink or toner.
Check whether you want your slides to print vertically or horizontally.

PowerPoint comes with a set of Templates and Themes. In fact, One can design a custom one with the following steps in an easy manner.

How to Design a Power point Template

Step 1:
Open a Blank Presentation

Step 2:

Switch to Slide Master View, go to View Tab at the top and Select the Slide Master icon.

Step 3:

Play with the Background styles, Colors, Fonts, Insert Place holders, Layouts and then add Effects, Graphics
and Finally Prepare a customized template that you like.