Watch this with a 10-15 minute audiotrack at http://vimeo.com/novusprogram/powerpoint1 This lesson provides information on the basics of PowerPoint, Microsoft’s powerful presentation development tool. The topics covered include a basic review of the program’s toolbars and options, and an introduction to slide creation. The objective of the lesson is for the user to be comfortable with operations like opening and creating PowerPoint documents, saving PowerPoint documents, navigating the options and toolbar, adding new slides, formatting text, formatting textboxes, using different program views, and starting a presentation. The lesson teaches concepts through a combination of image-based slides and video tutorials. The Novus project is a combination of video tutorials designed to be used in conjunction with a free business simulation software program. The Novus Business and IT Program contains 36 business and IT training videos, covering basic finance, accounting, marketing, economics, business strategy, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users will have an opportunity to apply the lessons in the Novus Business Simulator. Over six rounds, the user or teams will have to make decisions on capital purchases, financing, production, financing, and human resources for a microbrewery. This channel has arranged the 36 video lessons into the order in which they are meant to be used with the simulator. To watch this slideshow as a video, please go to our Vimeo page at: https://vimeo.com/novusprogram. To download our free business simulation software, please go to our SourceForge page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novus/.

1. Microsoft PowerPoint 1:
PowerPoint Basics
Objective: To provide an overview of PowerPoint’s various toolbars and
options, and give an introduction to slide creation.
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2. Capabilities
• Commercial presentation program with two
major capabilities.
– Slide Creation
– Presentation Delivery
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3. Capabilities: Slide Creation
• Slides hold the information in your presentation.
• Can include many objects:
– Text, Images, Movies, Graphs, Tables
• PowerPoint provides preset design options.
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4. Capabilities: Presentation Delivery
• PowerPoint creates a presentation environment.
• Slide organization, animation, customized
presentation modes are all available.
• Gives control over the flow of the presentation.
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5. Basic Layout
Top
Middle
Bottom
– Start menu (All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft PowerPoint)
To Open PowerPoint: – PowerPoint program shortcut
– Saved PowerPoint file
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6. Office Button & Quick Access Toolbar
• The Office Button
• The Quick Access
Toolbar
• Office Button Menu
– Opens when you click on
the Office Button.
– Main program options.
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7. Office Button: Save Window
• Saving your
document is very
important.
Popular Directories
Current Directory
File Name
Save Button
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8. Ribbon Bar
Ribbon Bar Tabs
• The Ribbon bar is made up of eight tabs:
– Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review, and View
• Contains the main document options.
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9. Ribbon Bar: Home, Insert, & View Tabs
The Home tab provides many options for formatting slides and adding new slides to your presentation
The Insert tab provides options for adding content to your slide.
The View tab provides options for changing how your document is displayed.
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10. Status Bar
• The Status Bar provides quick, easy access to
important presentation options.
Presentation Information Presentation View Options Zoom Slider
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11. Work Area
Slides Pane
Slide Creation Area
Notes Area
• Split into three different sections.
• Middle area displays Presentation content and design.
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12. Video 1
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13. Video 2
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14. Video 3
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15. Video 4
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16. Microsoft PowerPoint 1: Wrap-Up
• Become an expert at the basics:
– Program layout
– Basic options
– Slide Creation
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