Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Learning
Microsoft®
PowerPoint ®
2007
By Greg Bowden
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© Greg Bowden
ISBN: 1 921217 54 5
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Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Contents
1
Getting Started With PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a program that allows you to create Multimedia presentations.
These include electronic slide shows and screen displays. For your first presentation you
will create a slide show for the Wattle Valley Animal Park which is a make believe zoo that
maintains animals in their natural habitat.
Starting a Presentation
1 Load Microsoft PowerPoint and you should receive the POWERPOINT screen.
2 Look at the labelled diagram below and refer to this diagram until you are fully
familiar with the sections of the PowerPoint screen.
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C The Ribbon
The RIBBON across the top of the screen contains most of the PowerPoint commands in a
variety of command TABS.
2 Click on each command TAB in turn to see what groups of commands they contain.
Home Tab: Contains the most common commands for formatting and
editing slides.
Insert Tab: Contains commands for adding items to slides, for example,
tables, graphics, headers and footers, etc.
Design Tab: Contains tools that control how slides look on the screen or
when printed. These include page setup, slide orientation,
themes, background colours, etc.
Animations Tab: Contains tools for adding animations to slides. These include
transition effects, animating objects within a slide, etc,
Slide Show Tab: Contains tools to run the presentation. These include adding
narrations, rehearsing a presentation, etc.
Review Tab: Contains tools for checking presentations. These include spell
checking and thesaurus.
View Tab: Contains tools to view documents on screen. These include
zoom and presentation view commands.
NOTE: Other tabs are added to the RIBBON when you select or add
items to a presentation.
8 Look at the dialogue boxes available from the arrows next to the other group labels
in the HOME tab of the RIBBON.
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Zoom Controls
Microsoft PowerPoint provides extensive ways to quickly increase or decrease the zoom
(or magnification) of the screen. The ZOOM CONTROLS are in the ZOOM group of the
VIEW tab of the RIBBON and at the bottom right of the STATUS BAR.
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NOTE: You can click on the FONT COLOUR button rather that its
arrow if the FONT COLOUR button is set to the required colour.
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D Moving the Placeholder
You can move placeholders around the slide.
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F Saving the Presentation
4 Resave the presentation by clicking on the SAVE icon in the QUICK ACCESS
TOOLBAR or by pressing CTRL+S.
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3 The new slide is created with the
same background and its icon is
added to the SLIDES pane.
NOTE: Different types of content will be inserted into slides over the
next few chapters.
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4 Click on the SAVE button in the QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR (or press CTRL+S) to
resave the presentation.
NOTE: You can also use the scroll arrows in the SCROLL BAR at the
right of the screen to scroll through the slides or click on the
NEXT SLIDE button or PREVIOUS SLIDE button .
NOTE: You can also press the F5 key or click on the SLIDE SHOW
button in the VIEW buttons at the bottom right of the screen.
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NOTE: You can also press the ESC key to exit from a slide show.
Slide Outlines
You can look at the contents of slides in OUTLINE VIEW.
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Presentations Assignment 1
Create a title side and the first content slide for presentation on a topic set by your
teacher. If you cannot think of anything to do the following slides for a travel agency can
be created.
Slide 1
Tolman’s Travel
World Wide
Travel Services
Slide 2
Tolman’s Tours
• Destinations
• International Airlines
• London Tours
• European Tours
• European Highlights
• Airline Information
• Air Fares from Melbourne
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