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What is Presentation?
A series of slide group together is called
Presentation. The individual slides are stored are stored in a single presentation file. What is Slide ?
Slide is the basic building block of any PowerPoint
presentation, How to Creating new presentations
New presentations When you open PowerPoint from the Start menu or
from an icon on your desktop, a new presentation
with one slide appears by default. You can also create a new presentation while PowerPoint is already open. Click the Microsoft Office button, and
choose New from the menu.
The New Presentation dialog box will appear. Blank presentation is selected by default. Click Create, and a new presentation will open in the PowerPoint window. The default slide that appears when you create a new presentation is a Title Slide layout. Slide basics About the slides Slides contain placeholders, or areas on a slide that
are enclosed by dotted borders. Placeholders can
contain many different items, including text, pictures, and charts. Some placeholders have placeholder text—or text you can replace— and thumbnail-sized icons that represent specific commands such as Insert Picture, Insert Chart, and Insert Clip Art. Hover over each icon to see the type of information you can insert. About slide layouts
The placeholders are arranged in
different layouts you can select when you insert a new slide or that can be applied to existing slides. In the example above, the layout is called Title and Content and includes title and content placeholders.
A slide layout arranges your slide content. Layouts
contain different types of placeholders you can use, depending on what information you want to include in your presentation. Each layout has a descriptive name, but the image of the layout shows you how the placeholders are arranged on the slide Slide basics
To insert text into a placeholder:
Click inside the placeholder. The placeholder text will disappear, and the insertion point will appear. Type your text once the insertion point is visible. Click outside the placeholder when you have entered all of your text into the placeholder. When you enter text or use the icons to insert items, the placeholder text and/or icons disappear as soon as you start typing. To insert a new slide: Click the New Slide command in the Slides group on the Home tab. A menu will appear with your slide layout options. Click the slide you want to insert. A new slide with the chosen layout will appear in the center of the PowerPoint window and in the pane on the left. To change the layout of an existing slide:
Select the slide you want to change.
Click the Layout command in the Slides group
on the Home tab. A menu appears with your
options. •Click an option to select it. The slide will change in the presentation . Working with slides
To copy and paste a slide:
Select the slide you want to copy. Click the Copy command on the Home tab. Click inside the Slides tab on the left task pane. A horizontal insertion point will appear. Move the insertion point to the location
where you want the copy of the slide to
appear. Click the Paste command on the Home tab. The copied slide will appear. You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C to copy the slide and Ctrl+V to paste it. To delete a slide: Select the slide you want to delete. Click the Delete command in the Slides group
on the Home tab.
You can also delete a slide by pressing
the Delete key on your keyboard. To move a slide: Select the slide you want to move on the
Slides tab in the left task pane.
Click and drag the slide to a new location.
The insertion point will appear.
Release the mouse button. The slide will
appear in the new location.
. Using different views from the PowerPoint window In the bottom-right corner of the PowerPoint window are three view commands. From here, you can change the view to Normal, Slide Sorter, or Slide Show view by clicking a command. Normal is the default view and where you will create and edit your slides in the center slide pane, and all of the slides will appear on the Slides tab in the left task pane. Slide Sorter is a view of your slides in thumbnail form. The slides are presented horizontally, which allows you to see more slides at the same time. Slide Show view fills the computer screen with your presentation so you can see how the presentation will appear to an audience. Saving your presentation If you are saving a document for the first time, you will need to use the Save As command; however, if you have already saved a presentation, you can use the Save command. To use the Save As command: Click the Microsoft Office button. Select Save As. A menu will appear. Select the type of file you want to save the presentation as. The two most commonly used file types are: ◦ PowerPoint Presentation: This saves the presentation as a 2007 PowerPoint file. Only users with PowerPoint 2007 or the compatibility pack can view the file without possibly losing some of the formatting. ◦ PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation: This saves the presentation so it is compatible with some previous versions of PowerPoint. If you will be sending the presentation to someone who does not have Office 2007, you should use this file type. •The Save As dialog box will appear. Select the location where you want to save the document using the drop-down menu. •Enter a name for the document. •Click the Save button. To use the Save command:
Click the Microsoft Office button.
Select Save from the menu. Using the Save command saves the document
in its current location using the same file
name. Click the Microsoft Office button. Select Save As PowerPoint Presentation.
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