1. Let us discuss! PowerPoint is a powerful presentation and graphics programs that involves creating a presentation starting with a basic design.

2. Common Uses of Presentations Different types of people make presentation for different reasons. Here are some of various way in which presentations are used today.

3. In schools, teachers make presentations for students to effectively understand the lessons.

4. Scientist and researchers often make presentations to announce their findings or discoveries.

5. To convince costumers, salesmen make presentations to introduce a new product and explain its features.

6. Business make presentations to report how much profits their companies earned in the previous year.

7. Speaker at seminars and conferences make use of presentations to carefully explain the topic they are discussing.

8. Students can also use presentations to give details about their reports and other school assignments.

10. Combine text and graphics to create a presentation that is visually appealing, or nice to look at.This will enable you to effectively get your message across.

11. Present information using charts,tables and attractive diagrams.This is an effective way to clearly compare and emphasize certain data.

13. Open Office Org. Impress Since Open Office org. Impress is the most widely used presentation software, it is important for you to learn how to use the program. To keep up with the latest development of computer technologies, you will be using the latest version, which is Impress Power Point.

14. Parts of the open office org. impress

15. The Power Point Environment

16. Title Bar Generally appears at the top of the screen. It displays the title of the current presentation.

17. Menu Bar Displays the main menu which contains options to give instructions to Powerpoint.

18. Toolbar Displays buttons that you select to perform commonly needed editing tasks.

19. Standard Toolbar Is used to open a file, to save and print the file, to check spelling, to cut copy and paste, to redo and to insert a chart or table.

20. Formatting toolbar Is used to change the font,font size or font color;to bold underline or italicize text,alignment,add bullet or lists

21. View button Holds the objects like text, clip arts and harts in your slide.

22. The power points views Normal view Slide Sorter Outline Notes Handout Status Bar-displays information about your document Scrolling Bars-is used to move around your document with mouse Sizing button-are close,maximize and minimize Place Holder-holds the objects like text,clip art and chart in your slide Rulers-these are vertical and horizontal guides to help determine where you want to place and object.