Introduction to MS PowerPoint: Key Features and Functions
1. Introduction to MS-PowerPoint
Dr. Devender Kumar
Associate Professor
Faculty of Management & Commerce
Baba Mastnath University, Rohtak
2. Contents
• Introduction to MS-PowerPoint
• Introduction to Slides
• Speaker Notes
• Media Clips
• Graphs
• Pictures
• Adding different kind of slides
• Working with PowerPoint
• Inserting Text Objects
• Formatting Text
3. MS-PowerPoint- Introduction (1)
• PowerPoint is a slideshow presentation
program that's part of the Microsoft office
suite of tools.
• PowerPoint makes it easy to create,
collaborate, and present your ideas in
dynamic, visually compelling ways.
• Source: https://products.office.com/en-
us/what-is-powerpoint
4. MS-PowerPoint- Introduction (2)
• Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program created by Robert Gaskins
and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc.
• It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only.
• Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for $14 million three months after it
appeared.
• Microsoft PowerPoint is one of many programs run by the company
Microsoft and can be identified by its trademark orange, and P initial on
the logo.
• It offers users many ways to display information from simple presentations
to complex multimedia presentations.
• PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft Office suite, first offered
in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990 for Windows, which bundled several
Microsoft apps.
• Beginning with PowerPoint 4.0 (1994), PowerPoint was integrated into
Microsoft Office development, and adopted shared common components
and a converged user interface.
5. Features of MS-PowerPoint
• Available for multiple platforms like Windows, iOS,
Android and Mac
• Presentation can be shared or shown online in the
real-time by sending the URL of the presentation
to the user connected to the internet.
• Following features can be added to the
presentation:
• Custom animation
• Photos, Videos and Sound Effects
• Hyperlinks
• Embed YouTube videos
• Slides can be printed in different ways
6. Introduction to Slides
• A slide is a single page of a PowerPoint
presentation.
• A slide may contain text objects, audio, video,
images and graphs etc.
• A PowerPoint Presentation is a collection of
several slides.
• A Presentation is saved as a single PowerPoint
file.
• An MS-PowerPoint presentation/file is saved
with .ppt/.pptx extension.
7. Speaker Notes
• The speaker notes or notes pages are a
reserved space for each slide in your
presentation that is intended to be used by
the presenter for many different purpose.
• The presenter can add some key points that he
want to cover during a Power Point
presentation or meeting, and don’t want to
miss.
8. Speaker Notes (Continued)
• Speaker notes are notes added to PowerPoint
presentation slides as a reference for the
presenter.
• Speaker Notes in a PowerPoint slide are hidden
during the presentation and only visible to the
one presenting the slides.
9. Media Clips
• In this option a presenter can add some video clips to
the slides. The video clip may be an online video or
an offline one.
11. Graphs
• Graphs are pictorial representation of data.
Graphs can be added to show the
measurement or statistics on a slide.
• The data of graphs can be modified as and
when required.
13. Pictures
• Pictures are the images
• These images can be of different types and
sizes.
• These pictures must be relevant to the topic
to be presented.
• The images can be resized , rotated and
moved as per requirement of the topic and
space available on the slide.
• Images, Textbox and other elements can be
placed in a layered manner.
17. Baba Mastnath University
Baba Mastnath University in
Asthal Bohar, Rohtak is a
private university under the
aegis of Sri Baba Mast Nath
Ayurvedic & Sanskrit Sikshan
Sansthan.
Baba Mastnath University
(BMU) Rohtak, is one of the
oldest and the most popular
university of Haryana.
University offers various
courses.
18. Inserting Text Objects
• Text objects are the elements in various
shapes available in PowerPoint.
• These objects are used to provide description
or label to other objects.
• These objects can be resized, rotated and
moved according to the requirement of the
user.
• These objects can be animated separately.
19. Formatting Text
• Text can be formatted in different ways, in a
presentation.
• Formatting text means applying different
styles to the text like making the text bold,
italics, underline, superscripts and subscripts
(for equations), increasing font size, applying
different font types.
20. Using MS-PowerPoint
• For using MS-PowerPoint we should have a broad(main)
topic to present.
• The broad or main topic should have break-ups as sub-
topics.
• Select the appropriate template or layout for the
presentation.
• Place the text, images, text-objects, links, audio or
video to the slides.
• Apply appropriate animation.
• Apply the appropriate slide transition.
• Setup the show
• Save the file in appropriate format
21. What is Animation?
• Animation is the movement of different
objects or their appearance during the slide
show.
• Animation time and type can be different for
the different objects and slides
22. What is Slide Transition?
• Slide transition is the movement or
appearance of the slides during the slide show.
• Different slides can have different type of
transition.