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31 Dec 2011

Powerpoint-Introduction

Lesson 1: The Microsoft PowerPoint Screen

PowerPoint is a presentation software package. With PowerPoint, you can easily create slide shows. Trainers and other presenters use slide shows to illustrate their presentations. This tutorial teaches PowerPoint basics. This lesson introduces you to the PowerPoint window. You use the window to interact with PowerPoint.

  •     Microsoft PowerPoint Title Bar
  •     Microsoft PowerPoint Menu Bar
  •     Standard and Formatting Toolbars
  •     Rulers
  •     Placeholders
  •     Status Bar
  •     Outline Tab
  •     Slides Tab
  •     View Buttons
  •     Drawing Toolbar
  •     Common Tasks Buttons
  •     Task Pane
  •     Vertical Splitter Bar
  •     Minimize Button
  •     Maximize/Restore Button
  •     Close Button

Lesson 2: PowerPoint Overview

You create your PowerPoint presentation on slides. You use layouts to organize the content on each slide. PowerPoint has several slide layouts from which to choose. Themes are sets of colors, fonts, and special effects. Backgrounds add a colored background to your slides. You can add themes and backgrounds to your slides. After you complete your slides, you can run your presentation. In this lesson you learn how to create slides, makes changes to slides, apply a theme and run a slide show.
  •     Create New Slides
  •     Change Your Slides
  •     Apply a Design Template
  •     Correct Spelling
  •     Sorter View
  •     Run Your PowerPoint Slide Show
  •     Print Your Slides

Lessson 3: Creating Your First PowerPoint Presentation

Animations control how objects move onto, off of, and around your slides. Transitions control how your presentation moves from one slide to the next. In this lesson you learn how to create animations and transitions. You also learn how to spell-check your document, how to use the Outline and Slides tabs, how to use Sorter view, and how to print.
  •     Create a Title Slide
  •     Insert a New Slide
  •     Create a Hierarchy
  •     Use Two-Column Text
  •     Apply a Design Template
  •     Outline and Slides Tab
  •     Slide Sorter View
  •     Run Your Slide Show
  •     Print Your Outline
  •     Print Your Slides
  •     Print Your Slides as a Handout