MICROSOFT POWER POINT

INTRODUCTION TO POWER POINT

Microsoft Power Point is an application package designed by Microsoft Cooperation. It belongs to a big application know as  Microsoft Office/Office Suite.

 It is basically used for presentation.

DEFINITION:-  It can be defined as a presentation package use in creating different types designs, such as seminars, advertisement etc.

STEPS TO LAUNCH MICROSOFT POWER POINT.

1.    Click on start button

2.    Click on All program

3.    Click on Microsoft Office

4.    Click on Microsoft Power Point.

SCREEN ELEMENTS OF MICROSOFT POWER POINT.

1.    Title Bar:-  It contains the file and program a user is working with at a given time.

2.    Menu Bar:-  It contains all the commands or instructions used to communicate with Excel

3.    Standard Bar:-  It is the most frequently used bar. It contains shortcut commands which can be accessed easily without using the menu bar.

4.    Formatting Bar:-  It is a bar used to beautify a workbook. It is also a shortcut bar.

5.    Drawing Bar:-  It is a bar used to manipulate graphics in Excel.

6.    Horizontal & Vertical Scroll Bar:- These are bars used to navigate within an  environment.

7.    Status Bar:- It displays a detailed information concerning the environment a user is working with.

8.    Editing Window:-  It is an environment used for data manipulation

9.    Task Bar:-  It a bar that contains the start button with date and time.

Note:-In power point,  a file is saved as presentation while the working area is known as Slide.

VIEWS IN MICROSOFT POWER POINT.

1.    Normal View:- It is the default environment that opens immediately power point is runned.

2.    Slide Sorter view:- It is a view used to display of view or the slides at the same time.

3.    Slide show:-  It displays slide in a full screen. It is basically used to present a seminar in power point.

WAYS OF CREATING A PRESENTATION IN POWER POINT.

1.    Auto-content wizard:-  As the name implies, it contains presentation outline which can aid a user on how to create a presentation.

2.    Design templates:-it contains already designed backgrounds which a user can use to create a presentation.

3.    Existing presentation:-  It is a means of creating a presentation by simply editing an already designed presentation.

4.    Blank presentation:-  As the name implies, it has no design in it. It is just blank. In this method, the user is expected to manipulate all the required information needed for the presentation.

Note:-Among the above mentioned ways of creating a presentation, our point of reference will be on Blank Presentation.

STEPS TO CREATE A PRESENTATION USING BLANK PRESENTATION.

From the normal view, do the following:

1.    Under click to add title, type the title or topic of your seminar or presentation.

2.    Under click to add subtitle, type the name of the seminar presenter

3.    Insert a new slide

4.    Under click to add title, type, ‘contents”

5.    Under click to add text, type the contents or highlights of the presentation one after the other.

6.    Pick up the first content.

7.    Insert a new slide

8.    Type the first content under click to add title.

9.    Under click to add text, outline all the details for the first content

10.Do the same for other contents

11.Beautify the slide, text and pictures or graphics in it.

12.Apply effects to the slides and also to text and graphics.

METHODS OF INSERTING A NEW SLIDE.

1.    Click  on insert menu

2.    Click on new slide

Or by simply pressing CTRL M from the Keyboard.

STEPS DELETE A SLIDE

1.    Right click on the slide you want to delete

2.    Click on delete slide

STEPS TO INSERT A CLIPART

1.    Click on insert menu

2.    Click on clip Art

3.    \under search, type the name of what you want to inset. E.g computer

4.    Click on go

5.    Click and drag the picture of your choice to the working area.

STEPS TO INSERT AN AUTOSHAPE

1.    Click on insert menu

2.    Click on shapes

3.    Select the picture of  your choice

4.    Click and drag in order to draw the object

Or through the Drawing Bar, click on Autoshape, select any shape of your choice, click and drag on the working area in order to draw the object.

STEPS TO FORMAT A CLIPART/PICTURE/AUTOSHAPE

1.    Click on the object you want to format

2.    Click on picture  tools

3.    Select fill colour in order to apply a fill colour or select outline colour for an outline colour.

This can also be achieved from the drawing bar.

STEPS TO MOVE AN OBJECT

1.    Right click  on the object you want to move

2.    Click on format picture/or otherwise

3.    Click on layout

4.    Click on behind text or I n front of text

5.    Click on ok

STEPS TO BEAUTIFY TEXT IN A SLIDE

1.    Select the text you want to format

2.    Click on format menu

3.    Click on font

4.    Select the font type, size and colour of your choice.

5.    Click on ok

This can also be achieved through the shortcut bar.

STEPS TO BEAUTIFY OR FORMAT A SLIDE

1.    Select the slide you want to beautify

2.    Click on format menu

3.    Click on background

4.    Select the colour of your choice and click on Apply or Apply to All.

Or click on fill effect

    Select gradient, texture, pattern or picture.

      

PRESENTATION EFFECTS:-  These are effects used to animate the content of a presentation.

Note:-The effect use to animate text and graphics in a presentation is custom animation while the effects used to animate the slide is known as slide animation.

SLIDE ANIMATION:-This can be define as a command used to add effect to a slide in order to animate it.

STEPS TO APPLY SLIDE ANIMATION

1.    Select the slide you want to animate

2.    Click on slide show or animation menu

3.    Select any slide effect of your choice

4.    Modify the effect by adjusting the transition sound and speed

5.    Select “on mouse click” or “automatically after”\

Repeat the same step to all the slides, or click on Apply to all slide

CUSTOM ANIMATION:-It is an effect used to animate text and graphics in a presentation.

STEPS TO APPLY CUSTOM ANIMATION

1.    Select the texts or object you want to animate

2.    Click on slide show or animation menu

3.    Click on custom animation

4.    Click on add effect

5.    Select any effect of your choice

6.    Modify the effect

STEPS TO PRINT A PRESENTATION

1.    Click on file menu

2.    Click on print

3.    Observe your printing options

4.    Click on ok or print.