1. APPLICATION PACKAGES
CSC 2304
LECTURE 3
Department of Maths and Computer-
Science
Faculty of Natural and Applied Science
BY
UMAR DANJUMA MAIWADA

2. PRESENTATION
 A presentation program is a computer software package
used to display information normally in the form of a slide
show. It typically includes three major functions:
 An editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted.
 A method for inserting and manipulation graphic images
 A slide show system to display the content
 Examples of presentation software include:
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 Corel Presentations
 Google Docs
 Slide Rocket
 Apple Keynote
 Kingsoft Presentation, etc.
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3. MICROSOF POWER POINT
 Microsoft PowerPoint is a Presentation
graphics application that enables users to
create highly stylized images for slide shows
and reports.
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4. STARTING MS-POWER POINT
 Step 1: Click the Start button.
 Step 2: Click All Programs option from the menu.
 Step 3: Search for Microsoft Office from the sub
menu and click it.
 Step 4: Search for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
from the submenu and click it.
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6. EXPLANATION
 File Tab
 Ribbon
 Title Bar
 Slide Area
 Help
 Zoom Options
 Slide Views
 Notes Section
 Quick Access Toolbar
 Slide Tab

7. ACCESSING BACKSTAGE VIEW
 You can access the Backstage view simply by
clicking on the File tab. You can exit this view by
clicking on any tab (including the File tab again).
You can also press the 'Esc' button on the
keyboard.
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8. COMMAND
 Save
 Save As
 Open
 Close
 Info
 Recent
 New
 Print
 Save & Send
 Help
 Options
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9. CREATING PRESENTATIONS
 PowerPoint offers a host of tools that will aid you in
creating a presentation. These tools are organized
logically into various ribbons in PowerPoint. The
table below describes the various commands you
can access from the different menus.
 Slide Layout: is the arrangement of elements such as
title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts,
shapes, and movies on a chart.
 Colour Scheme: a colour scheme consists of a
background colour, a colour for lines and text, and other
colours designed to make slides easy to read.
 Design Template: a file that contains the styles in a
presentation, including the type and size of bullets and
fonts, placeholder sizes and positions, background
design and fill, colour schemes, and so on.
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10. MENU CATEGORY
 Home
 Insert
 Design
 Transitions
 Animations
 Slideshow
 Review
 View
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11. ADDING NEW SLIDES
 Step 1: Right-click in the Navigation Pane under
any existing slide and click on the New Slide
option.
 Step 2: The new slide is inserted. You can now
change the layout of this slide to suit your design
requirements.
 Step 3: To change the slide layout, right-click on
the newly inserted slide and go to the Layout
option where you can choose from the existing
layout styles available to you.

12. ADDING TEXT IN BOXES
 Title Box
This is typically found on slides with the title layout and in all the
slides that have a title box in them. This box is indicated by
"Click to add title".
 Subtitle Box
This is found only in slides with the Title layout. This is indicated
by "Click to add subtitle".
 Content Box
This is found in most of the slides that have a placeholder for
adding content. This is indicated by "Click to add text". As
you can see, this box allows you to add text as well as non-
text content. To add text to such a box, click anywhere on the
box, except on one of the content icons in the center and start
typing.
 Text Only Box
This is not a default content box available in PowerPoint, but
you can create it using Slide Master, if required. This is also
indicated by "Click to add text". The only difference between
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13. ADDING A DIAGRAM
 Click on the Insert tab 
 click on the type of diagram you want to insert
 and select from its various options
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14. ADDING MUSIC OR SOUND EFFECTS TO A
SLIDE
 Click on the Insert tab 
 click on Sound 
 you can choose to insert sound from the following
options:
 Sound from File…
 Sound from Clip Organiser…
 Play CD Audio track…
 Record Sound…

15. ADD TRANSITION BETWEEN SLIDES
 Slide Transitions are the visual movements as one
slide changes to another.
 PowerPoint allows you to select from among
different slide transition effects (or use none at all).
 These determine how each slide first appears.
 In addition, you can control how fast the effect is to
occur, whether it should happen automatically, and
also what sound to produce during this transition.
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16. ADDING TRANSITIONS BETWEEN SLIDES
 Adding transitions to slides
Select Animation tab  Select the transition to add
 Add the same transition to all slides in a slide show
presentation
Select Animation  select the transition to add 
Click Apply To All
 Add different transitions between slides
On the slide you want to add a transition to Select the
Animation tab  Select the transition to add
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17. TIMINGS FOR A SLIDE SHOW
 Insert timings for a slide
Click Animations  Select the Automatically After
checkbox and then enter the number of seconds
you want the slide to appear on the screen.
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18. SETTING CONTINUOUS LOOPS
 Set up a presentation to run in a continuous loop
Click the Slide Show tab  Click Set Up Slide Show
 Select the Loop Continuously Until ‘Esc’ check
box.
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19. ADDING ANIMATION EFFECTS
 Animation Effects determine how portions of a slide
(bulleted items, individual words, etc.) make their
appearance on the slide.
 Insert Animation Effects
Click the Animation tab  Click Custom Animation 
Click Add Effect to get the desired effects
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20. INSERTING HEADER AND FOOTER
 Inserting Header and Footer
Click the Insert tab  Click Header & Footer  Make
the necessary entries and click on Ok

21. DELETING EXISTING SLIDE
 Deleting from Normal View
 Step 1: Go to the Normal view.
 Step 2: Right-click on the slide to be deleted and select
the Delete Slide option.
 Deleting from Slide Sorter View
 Step 1: Go to the Slide Sorter view.
 Step 2: Right-click on the slide to be deleted and select
the Delete Slide option
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24. REARRANGING SLIDES
 Normal View
 Step 1: Select the slide to be moved
 Step 2: Left click on the slide and drag it to the position
in the sequence where you want to place it. PowerPoint
will indicate the insert position with a line in-between
existing slides.
 Step 3: When you get to the right position release the
left click button to insert the slide. Alternately you can
also cut the selected slide and paste it back in the
sequence as shown below.
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25. HIDING SLIDES
 Instead, in Slide Sorter view mark these slides as
hidden and they will not appear as you step through
the presentation in Slide Show view.
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26. QUESTIONS???
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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