POWER POINT
It helps you to create interactive self running or speaker controlled visual displays. Power point makes use of multimedia technology to include photograps, drawing, text,graps vedio and audio clips in your presentation.
Microsoft Powerpoint has various options for creating presentations such as:
– Using Auto Conttent Wizard. – Designing Template – Blank Presentation – Opening and Existing Files.
Definitions
Presentation: The primary type of file PowerPoint is used to create. Presentation s typically have the file extension .ppt; however, Fina lly, you can save your presentation as a web page, with the file extension .html .
Slides: Individual parts of a presentation . Slides are similar to the individual pages in a printed document, and can contain text, graphics, and animation.
Layout: The specific arrangement o f text and images on a slide. Layouts can be very simple, consisting o f simple titles and text, or they can be more complex and include elaborate colo rs and ima ges. You can a lso include animation, sounds, and other multimedia objects in your layout.
View: Microsoft PowerPoint has th ree main views: normal view, slide sorter view, and slide show view. Nor mal viewis the main editing view. Slide sorter view is an exclusive view of your slides in thumbnail form, help ful for rearranging the order of your slides. Slide show view takes up the full computer screen, like an actual slide show presentation . In this full-screen view, you see your presentation the way your audience will.
Design Template: The specific “look” of a slide or group of sli des. A design templa te can be very basic – with black text on a white background – or it can be very colorful and co mplex. Typically, PowerPoint presentations have the same design template for all slides, although it is possible to select a different design template for each slide.
Slide Show: The way a prese ntation appears when you are p resenting it. When you display yo ur slides in a slide show, the slides typically take up the whole screen, and they appear in sequence.
Place holder: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked outlines tha t app ear when you create a new slide . These boxes act as “placeholders” for objects such as the slide title, text, clip art, charts, and tables. Placeholders are sometimes called “text boxes.”
Starting PowerPoint
This section describes how to start PowerPoint, what you will see when you first open the program, and how to start creating a presentation from scratch.
Step 1: To start PowerPoint, go to the Start menu and select Progra ms ->Ms Office ->Power Point. Step 2:PowerPoint opens in “Normal” view. In normal view, you will see the following:
- A blank slide in the center of the win dow.
- Off to the justify, a “Slides” pane that will display a thumbnail sketch of all the sl ides in your presentation, in sequence.
- Off to the right, a “Task” pane that wil l display the followin g options for ge tting started :
- “Open,” to open a pre -existing presentation.
- Create a new presentation,” to start a new presentation.
Step 3: Click “Create a new presentation” to start a new presentation.
Step 4: Click “Blank presen tation” to create a presentation from scra tch. Your o ther options here are “From design template”, “From AutoContent wizard” and “From existing presentation”.
Step 5: Click on a desired layou t from the choices that appear in the task pane. A discu ssion of layouts fo llows in the next section.
NOTE: To return to Normal view at any time, go to View ->Normal.
To apply a layout to your new slide:
Step 1: Scroll through the available layouts in the “Slide Layout” task pane off to the right.
Step 2: Click on the layout you would like to apply to your slides
To insert a new slide:
Option #1: Go to Insert->New Slide. A bla nk slide will appear in the workspace, positioned after the selected slide or slide you were viewing.
Option #2: Click on the “New Slide ” button on the formatting toolbar at the top o f the PowerPoint window
Create a presentation using blank slides
On the Standard toolbar, click New . click the slide you want. On the slide or on the Outline tab, type the text you want.
Then clik on the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation. In the Custom Animation task pane, in the Custom Animation list, click the item that you want to change . Then choose slide transition .
If you want to repeat the animation a set number of times and then stop, type in a numerical value. · If you want to allow the animation to repeat until you click the slide, click Until Next Click. If you want to allow the animation to repeat until all other animations on the slide are finished, click Until End of Slide. then click setup show then choose loop contineously until esc.
To run a slide click on the Slide show menu, click on View show.
Microsoft PowerPoint provides Design templates that you can apply to a presentation to give it a fully designed, professional look.