2. Microsoft Power Point gives you ways to create and
share dynamic presentations with your audience. It is
a powerful communication tool to present views and
ideas effectively using diagrams, photos, sounds,
designs and animations. It uses a graphical approach
to presentations in the form of slide shows that
accompany the oral delivery of the topic. In addition,
it is widely used in business and classrooms and is an
effective tool when used for training purposes.
3. Creating a New File
Creating a new file enables you to start on your
presentation. This creates a blank presentation in your
workspace. The Blank Presentation can be found in
File > New > Blank Presentation. Shortcut to this
action is by pressing Ctrl + N.
4. Adding a New Slide
Adding a new slide enables you to populate your
presentation with the number of slides you’ll need.
New Slide can be found on the quick access toolbar.
Shortcut to this action is Ctrl + M.
5. Applying a Slide Theme
A theme is a set of colors, fonts, effects, and more
that can be applied to your entire presentation to give
it a consistent, professional look. You've already been
using a theme, even if you didn't know it: the default
Office theme, which consists of a white background,
the Calibri font, and primarily black text. Themes can
be applied or changed at any time at the Design tab.
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7. Adding New Image
PowerPoint offers you a number of different ways to
add clip art and pictures to a presentation. Perhaps
the easiest way to do so is to select a slide layout that
contains a placeholder for content such as clip art and
pictures. An alternative to this method is to select the
Insert tab on the ribbon and click on the Picture or
Clip Art icon (Insert > Picture or Insert > Clip Art).
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9. Exploring the Interface
Creating a new file enables you to start on your
presentation. This creates a blank presentation in
your workspace. The Blank Presentation can be found
in File > New > Blank Presentation.
1 ― File Menu and Backstage View: When you click
the File menu (the equivalent of the Office Button in
PowerPoint 2007), you see the new Backstage view
that contains all the creation, save, share, and print
options for your presentations.
10. 2 ― Quick Access Toolbar: Also known as the
QAT, this is a customizable toolbar placed by default
on the top of Ribbon -- you can add icons for your
often used commands to this toolbar. The QAT can
also be placed below the Ribbon.
3 ― Ribbon: The Ribbon has tabs which in turn
contain groups of buttons for various options --
some groups also contain galleries (for example
galleries for Themes and Theme Colors).
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12. 4 ― Slides/Outline Pane: Normally placed on the
left side of the interface, this pane contains two tabs
-- the Slides tab and the Outline tab. The Slides tab
shows thumbnails of all the slides in the open
presentation. The Outline tab shows the same slides in
outline view.
5 ― Slide Area: Displays the active slide.
6 ― Task Pane: The Task Pane contains more options
and appears when you choose an option in one of the
Ribbon tabs -- for example if you click the Clip Art
button on the Insert tab of the Ribbon, the Clip Art
task pane opens.
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14. 7 ― Status Bar: A horizontal strip that provides
information about the opened presentation like slide
number, applied Theme, etc. It also includes the view
and zoom options. The View buttons are explained
later in this page (see 8).
8 ― Notes Pane: Directly below the active slide, this
is where you input speaker notes for the current slide.
None of this content is visible on the actual slide while
presenting ― although it is visible in both Notes Page
view and Presenter view.
15. 9 ― View Buttons: Essentially there are four view buttons on
the status bar displayed towards the left of the zoom-in and
zoom-out options:
Normal View - Clicking this enables Normal view, Shift-clicking
this gets you to Slide Master view.
Slide Sorter View - Clicking this displays zoom-able thumbnails of
every slide in the open presentation. Shift-clicking this button
gets you to Handout Master view.
Reader View - Clicking this displays the presentation in a
readable format.
Slide Show from current slide - Show the presentation as a full
screen slideshow from the current selected slide. Shift-clicking
brings up the Set Up Show dialog box.
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17. Activity:
1. You will be making your dream vacation posters.
First, we have to open Microsoft Powerpoint. Click on
Start ►All Programs ► Microsoft Office ► Microsoft
Powerpoint or double-click on the Microsoft Powerpoint
shortcut on the desktop. This will open a blank
presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint.
18. 2. Add creativity to your work by changing the feel of
your presentation. Select any Powerpoint theme that
suits your dream vacation. To do this, click on Design
tab to view all the themes available.
19. 3. Once you have chosen your theme, it’s now time to
start making the posters already. On the current slide,
key in the destination of your dream vacation. You
may change the font style and size.
20. 4. To change the font style, locate on the quick access
toolbar a drop down menu that contains the font list.
Click on your text box first, then choose your desired
font in the font list. The same procedure applies for
the font size. Its drop down menu can be found beside
the font style.
21. 5. Add details to your dream destination by inserting
an image as well as several trivias about the place.
Indicate the reason why you chose that place as your
dream vacation in another slide. To add another slide,
locate the New Slide button on the quick access
toolbar or try pressing Ctrl + M.
22. 6. Add text boxes by clicking on Insert ►Text Box.
Click on the slide area afterwards to create your text
box.
23. 7. You can type your reasons here. These may include
facilities, amenities, food, location, crowd, etc.
24. 8. Add image to your presentation to give it an artistic
feel. In order to do that, click on Insert ►Picture. A
dialogue box will pop out of your screen.
25. 9. Locate the images of the given destinations in the
folders present at the left side of the dialogue box.
26. 10. Select the image of your first destination and click
Insert to place the picture on the slide.
27. 11. Repeat the same process for your second dream
destination. Continue on adding slides for the
destination and the short description.
28. 12. Save your work once you are done. Locate the
Save button above the menu bar. It will automatically
open a dialogue box once it is clicked.
29. 13. Use any filename you want and click Save to finish.
30. 14. You are now ready to present your work in class!
Be proud and share to them your favorite
destinations.
