tutorial microsoft powerpoint

Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
Two Ways
Double click on the Microsoft PowerPoint icon on the desktop.
Click on Start --> Programs --> Microsoft PowerPoint
Back to top Creating & Opening a Presentation After you open up Microsoft PowerPoint, a screen pops up asking if you would like to create a New Presentation or Open An Existing Presentation.
AutoContent Wizard
Creates a new presentation by prompting you for information about content, purpose, style, handouts, and output. The new presentation contains sample text that you can replace with your own information. Simply follow the directions and prompts that are given by Microsoft PowerPoint.
Design Template
Creates a new presentation based on one of the PowerPoint design templates supplied by Microsoft. Use what is already supplied by Microsoft PowerPoint and change the information to your own.
Blank Presentation
Creates a new, blank presentation using the default settings for text and colors. Go to next step: Creating A Blank Presentation
Back to top Opening An Existing Presentation
Select Open An Existing Presentation from the picture above
Click on your presentation in the white box below step 1
If you do not see your presentation in the white box, select More Files and hit OK.
Locate you existing Presentation and hit the Open button
Back to top Create a Blank Presentation After you select Blank Presentation a window pops up asking you to select the layout of the first slide. Pre-Designed Slide Layouts (Left to Right)
Title Slide
Bulleted List
Two Column Text
Table
Text & Chart
Chart & Text
Organizational Chart
Chart
Text & Clip Art
Clip Art & Text
Title Only
Blank Slide
NOTE:If you already know what you want in your next slide, it is a very good idea to choose one of the pre-designed layouts from above. However if you do not, then you can still insert what you want in throughout your Presentation anytime you desire. Just choose Blank Slide and insert items as you see fit. Back to top Different Views That PowerPoint Demonstrates There are different views within Microsoft PowerPoint that allow you to look at your presentation from different perspectives.
Normal View
Outline View
Slide View
Slide Sorter View
Slide Show View
Switches to normal view, where you can work on one slide at a time or organize the structure of all the slides in your presentation
Switches to outline view, where you can work with the structure of your file in outline form. Work in outline view when you need to organize the structure of your file.
Switches to slide view, where you can work on one slide at a time
Displays miniature versions of all slides in a presentation, complete with text and graphics. In slide sorter view, you can reorder slides, add transitions, and animation effects. You can also set the timings for electronic slide shows.
Runs your slide show in a full screen, beginning with the current slide if you are in slide view or the selected slide if you are in slide sorter view. If you simply want to view your show from the first slide:
Click Slide Show at the top of the screen
Select View Show
Back to top Slide Manipulation
Inserting A New Slide
Click Insert at top of screen
Select New Slide
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Formatting A Slide Background
You can format your slide to make it look however you would like, whether it be a background color, picture, or a design template built into Microsoft PowerPoint. The next step will show you how to apply a Design Template, but the other items mentioned above can be accomplished the same way.
Click Format at the top of the screen
Select Apply Design Template
Select Design you wish to apply
Click Apply Button

Inserting Clipart & Pictures
Display the slide you want to add a picture to.
Click Insert at the top of the screen
Select Picture
Select Clip Art
Click the category you want
Click the picture you want
Click Insert Clip on the shortcut menu
When you are finished using the Clip Gallery, click the Close button on the Clip Gallery title bar
Steps 1-4 are very similar when inserting other Pictures, Objects, Movies, Sounds, and Charts
Back to top Adding Transitions to a Slide Show You can add customized transitions to your slide show that will make it come alive and become appealing to your audience. Follow these steps when adding Slide Transitions.
In slide or slide sorter view, select the slide or slides you want to add a transition to.
On the Slide Show menu at the top of the screen, click Slide Transition
In the Effect box, click the transition you want, and then select any other options you want
To apply the transition to the selected slide, click Apply.
To apply the transition to all the slides, click Apply to All.
Repeat the process for each slide you want to add a transition to.
To view the transitions, on the Slide Show menu, click Animation Preview.
Back to top Viewing The Slide Show You can view your slide show by any of the following ways:
Click Slide Show at the lower left of the PowerPoint window.
On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.
On the View menu, click Slide Show.
Press F5 on the keyboard
Back to top Navigating While In Your Slide Show
Forward Navigation
Simply click on the left Mouse Button or hit the Enter Button on your keyboard
Reverse Navigation
Hit the Backspace on the keyboard
Exiting the show
Hit the Esc Button on the keyboard
Back to top Pack up a presentation for use on another computer
Open the Presentation you want to pack
On the File menu, click Pack and Go
Follow the instructions in the Pack and Go Wizard.
Unpack a presentation to run on another computer
Insert the disk or connect to the network location you packed the presentation to
In My Computer, go to the location of the packed presentation, and then double-click Pngsetup
Enter the destination you want to copy the presentation to
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