Introduction To PowerPoint

INTRODUCTION

This unit will introduce you to MS Power Point. Power Point is a presentation tool that helps in creating eye-catching and effective presentations. A Presentation comprises individual slides arranged in a sequential manner. This unit will teach you to insert new slides into a presentation, delete existing slides from a presentation and number and recorder slides within a presentation.

            Further, you will learn about Design Template that determines a presentation’s colour scheme, fonts and other design features. You can specify the fonts, font styles, alignments, indentation and placement of text boxes. You can also insert tables, pictures clip art and auto shape in a Power Point presentation. PowerPoint can also be used to build slide shows to include eye-catching animations within a slide. You will be taught how to perform all these tasks with the help of a sample exercise.

UNIT OBJECTIVE After going through this unit, you will be able to: Use Power Point to create slides and make presentations. Create and delete slides in Power Point. Design Presentations based on inserting new slides, formatting text and paragraphs in a slide  Inserting tables, pictures, Clip art and auto shapes in PowerPoint Determine the various controls used in PowerPoint to control the slide shows Add transition and animation effects to PowerPoint presentations

POWER POINT BASICS

Power Point is a presentation tool that helps create eye-catching and effective presentations in a matter of minutes. A presentation comprises of individual slides arranged in a sequential manner. Normally, each slide covers a brief topic. Having once prepared a presentation, you can ask Power Point to generate hand-out material and speaker’s notes. Similarly, you have the option of either printing the slides- in case you want to use an overhead projector-or simply attach your computer to an LCD display panel that enlarges the picture several times and shows the output on a screen.

            You have three options for creating a new presentation:

1.      Begin by working with a wizard (called the Auto Content Wizard) that helps you determine the theme. Contents and organization of you presentation by using a predefined outline, or

2.      Start by picking out a Power Point Design Template which determine the presentation’s colour scheme, fonts and other design features, or

3.      Begin with a completely blank presentation with the colour scheme, fonts and other design features set to default values.

If you decided to choose the third option, Power Point designers have provided a wide assortment of predefined slide formats and clip art graphics libraries. Through these predefined slide formats, you can quickly create slides based on standard layouts and attributes.

            Power Point shares a common look and feel with other MS Office components, and having once mastered Word and Excel, learning Power Point almost like playing game. And it is also easy to pick up data from word and excel directly into a Power Point presentation and vice versa.