2. Tutorial Contents
Introduction
History
Features
Starting Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 View
Creating a Presentation
The Ribbon
The Status Bar
Selecting a Slide Layout
Adding, Editing and Formatting Text
Adding, Deleting or Moving a Slide
Saving a Document
Closing a Document
3. Introduction
PowerPoint is the most popular presentation
software. It part of the Microsoft Office Suite and
serves as the Suite’s presentation and slide show
tool.
Users familiar with other Microsoft products, such
as Word and Excel, will find many similarities in
PowerPoint’s menus, toolbars and buttons.
Companies use PowerPoint to create an
electronic version of a slide show, filling in
information slide-by-slide, adding photos, charts,
text and even movie clips.
4. Introduction
In boardrooms (assembly room, meeting
room), convention centers, web conferencing
and executive offices across the country,
workers conduct 30 million PowerPoint
presentations per day, according to the Ohio
State University website. The Microsoft
software has its competitor -- Sun
Microsystems banned use of PowerPoint in
1997 and authors have written entire books
against the product.
5. History
PowerPoint has gone from a black-and-white
application for the Macintosh computer in 1987
to one of Microsoft’s PC power players. It has
found a home on 250 million computers,
covering 95 percent of the presentation
software market.
6. Features
Quick, Easy to create a colorful and
attractive design and a powerful tool for giving
a presentation.
Easy to modify
Easily re-order presentation
Simple bullet points
Easy to present inform all audience
No need for Handouts
7. Features
It give the organization complete control over
how the slides appear, including the ability to
add a logo, how quickly the slides move and
branding/color ability.
It is regarded by many as the most useful and
accessible way to create and present visual
aids to the audience.
Finally, PowerPoint is integrated with other
products that allow you to include parts of
documents, spread sheets, and graphics.
8. Starting Microsoft Powerpoint 2013
Select the Start menu
Select All Programs
Select Microsoft Office
Select Microsoft PowerPoint
2013
Start Menu
9. Microsoft Powerpoint 2013 View
When Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 starts, it opens in normal view and shows
the following screen:
Slides tab - displays a pane on the left with thumbnail previews of your slides.
Slide pane - displays the slide that is currently selected in the slides tab.
Notes pane - displays speaker notes for the slide currently active in the slide
pane.
Slides Tab
Slide Pane
Notes
Pane
10. Creating a Presentation
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 also automatically opens a presentation as well.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the default presentation is named
"Presentation1".
To start creating a presentation, click in a text box and begin typing your
text.
Text box
11. The Tab
The Tab is the display you see at the top of the Microsoft PowerPoint window. It is
where you access groups of commands for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has hundreds of commands for working with different
presentations. To make it easier for users to find the commands they are looking for,
commands are organised onto eight main tabs:
Home - commands for formatting presentations.
Insert – to insert tables, clip art, pictures, links, headers and footers.
Design - to change page setup, slide orientation, fonts and styles.
Transitions - to add and effects to a slide.
Animations - to add animation to text in a slide and to manage the order.
Slide Show - tab to finalise the slide show details and timings.
Review - tab to check spelling.
View - access the different presentation views, to show and hide the ruler.
Tabs
12. The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the display you see at the top of the Microsoft PowerPoint window. It is
where you access commands for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has hundreds of commands for working with different
presentations. To make it easier for users to find the commands they are looking for,
commands are organised onto eight main tabs:
Home - commands for formatting presentations.
Insert – to insert tables, clip art, pictures, links, headers and footers.
Design - to change page setup, slide orientation, fonts and styles.
Transitions - to add and effects to a slide.
Animations - to add animation to text in a slide and to manage the order.
Slide Show - tab to finalise the slide show details and timings.
Review - tab to check spelling.
View - access the different presentation views, to show and hide the ruler.
Ribbon
13. The Groups
The Group is the display you see at the bottom of Ribbon of the Microsoft
PowerPoint window. It is where you access commands for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has hundreds of commands for working with different
presentations. To make it easier for users to find the commands they are looking for,
commands are organised onto eight main groups:
Clipboard
Slides
Font
Paragraph
etc
Groups
14. The Status Bar
The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the window and shows basic
information about your presentation and lets you change your view settings.
Slide number - shows the slide number.
Notes pane button – shows the notes pane view.
Comments pane button – shows the comments pane view.
View controls - changes the view from normal, slide sorter, reading, and slide show.
Zoom control - you can zoom in or out to make the presentation bigger or smaller on the
Status
bar
15. Selecting a Slide Layout
When you start a new presentation or add a new slide, Microsoft
PowerPoint 2013 adds a slide with the default layout. If the layout isn’t the
one you want, you can change to another one of the built-in layouts. To
select a slide layout:
From the HOME tab, in the Slides group, click Layout. A gallery opens showing the
layouts that can be selected.
Click on the desired layout to apply the format to the current slide.
Home
Layout
16. Adding Text
Click in the text box.
When you click in the text box, it becomes active and the cursor indicates
where to enter your text.
Make sure the cursor is located inside the textbox and begin typing your
text.
Text box
17. Editing Text
Use your mouse to select the text you want to change.
Press Delete
Type your new text.
18. Formatting Text
The commands commonly used to format text are included in the Font
group on the Home tab:
Font - choose selected fonts.
Font size - change the size of your text.
Bold - bold your text.
Italic - italicise your text.
Underline - underline your text.
Strikethrough - strike through your text.
Font Colour - change the colour of your text.
Font
19. Adding, Deleting or Moving a Slide
Adding a Slide
If you have lots of slides in your presentation,
click on the thumbnail of the slide you want to
insert the new slide after.
In the home tab, in the Slides group, click New
slide to reveal a gallery of slide layouts.
In the layout gallery, click the layout for the
new slide. A blank slide of the specified layout
is added to the presentation.
Deleting a Slide
To delete a slide, select the slide in the slides
pane, right-click it, and select Delete Slide.
Moving a Slide
To change the order of slides in a
presentation:
In the slides tab, click and drag the thumbnail
of a slide to its new position.
Home Layout
20. Saving a Document
The first time you save a
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
presentation, you need to give it a
name and location. To do this:
From the File menu, select
Save As.
Now, select a location to save
your document.
Type in the name for the file.
Click Save.
21. Closing a Presentation
To close a Microsoft PowerPoint
2013 presentation you can:
click the "X" in the red box in the upper
right corner or
from the FILE menu, select Close.
When you close your presentation,
you will be asked to save if you
have made any changes since the
last time you saved.
