2. Use this to start a
new presentation
When you open PowerPoint this is what you
will see….
3. New presentation
● Inserting a new Slide:
1 Select New Slide from the Insert Menu
2 Select the Bulleted List Slide Layout
✪ Formatting Text Using Outline:
1 Select The Outline View and Type
2 Use the Promote, Demote icons to indent and create new slides
5. What are Auto-layout slides?
● PowerPoint provides users with a choice of some
commonly used slide formats
● Each slide is made up of one or more frames or
boxes
● There are text frames, pictures frames, chart
frames, etc.
● These frames are pre-formatted to certain fonts,
sizes and alignments, but they can be changed to
suit the user
● Each time a new slide is required, go to the Insert
menu and choose New slide
6. Title Slide
Blank Slide Slide Description
When Power Point begins it will ask what
type of auto-layout slide to insert first
7. New
open
print
Font Font size Bold
Italics
Underline
Whenever you see a double arrow you can click it
for additional buttons that you don’t see on the
toolbar.
Save
8. These are other helpful tools
Cut: This is used to cut things out of your project
Copy: this is used to copy from one portion of
your project to another
Paste: When you cut or copy something from your
project, it is put on an “imaginary” clipboard. The
paste button retrieves it from the clipboard and
places it in your project
9. New Slide : This button on the toolbar will allow us to
add more sides to the presentation
Most of the other buttons are towards the bottom
of the screen
Various Shapes line arrow rectangles oval text box text art clipart
Fill Color Line Color Font Color Line Width Line Type Arrow Type Shadow 3-D
10. If forget what the icons are:
If you move your cursor over any icon
on the screen and leave the mouse there
for a second, the name of what the icon
represents will appear.
11. Saving a presentation
● Saving a Presentation:
1 Select Save or Save as from File menu
2 Specify location
3 Type in the desired Filename
4 Click Save
✪ PPT Help Features: Select the Office assistant under the Help
Menu or press F1 KEY
12. Working with Text
● It is basically like a word
processor
● Various fonts and sizes
● Font colours
● Word Art
● Alignments
● Bullets and numbering
● Tables
Examples:
● Show card, comic
sans
● RED, PURPLE
● Left, centred, right,
justified
13. Working with pictures and sounds
PICTURES
● Go to the INSERT menu
● Choose Picture from…
● ClipArt or File
● Clip Art gives you a
selection
● File…you have to find the
picture file you want to use
SOUNDS
● Go to the INSERT menu
● Choose Movies and
Sounds (in PowerPoint
2000) from…
● Sound Gallery gives you a
selection
● Sound file…you have to
find the sound file you
have recorded or saved
and want to use
15. Practice: Adding Content
1.Place the cursor and start typing. 2.Select the
text to replace by double-clicking. 3.Click to the
left of a line to select it. 4.A formatting menu
appears. 5.Access the formatting options from
the ribbon. 6.Select Format Painter to copy
formatting. 7.Select the text to apply the
formatting to.
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16. Inserting Objects
1.Select insert - pictures. 2.Choose one of the
options. 3.This device lets you choose a picture
from your PC. 4.Stock images lets you choose
from images,icons,cutout
people,stickers,illustrations. 5.Online pictures
lets you search for images from the web. 6.Drag
a handle to resize the image. 7.Drag the image
to move it or use design ideas.
17. Practice: Manipulating Objects
1. Select the slide you want to add a transition
to. 2. Select transitions. 3. Select the arrow to
see options. 4. Choose a transition. 5. Select
effect options. 6. Select preview. 7. Select apply
to all. 8. To remove transitions, select
transitions - none.
18. Animation
1. Select the object or text you want to
animate. 2. Select animations and choose an
animation. 3. Select effect options an option.
4. Select preview to see how the animation
will look. 5. Change the timing for an
animation,like when it starts duration or
create a delay before an effect starts. 6. To
add another animation to the object. 7.Select
add animation and choose an animation to
change the order that object animate. 8.
Select an animation marker. 9. Choose move
19. Slide Show
1. Select the slide that you want to start the
slide show from. 2. On the slide show tab,click
play. 3. On the slide show tab,click the arrow
next to the custom show button,and then click
custom slide show on menu. 4. In the custom
shows screen, click the custom slide show you
want to present.
