You are in a panic!
Tomorrow you have to
make a presentation to the staff or to a board
of directors of a company. To rescue comes
the powerpoint: graphics presentation
program and is designed to help you create
an effective presentaion which in turn helps
your presentation gets your points across in
an interesing manner.
Click to view Web Link,
click Chapter 5, Click Web Link
from left navigation,
then click Mouse
below Chapter 5
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EXPLORING THE PRESENTATION WINDOW
PowerPoint helps simplify the process by providing
assistance in the content development phase, layout
and design phase.
Development phase include deciding on the topic of
your presentation, the organization of the content and
the message you want to convey to the
audience................
Layout phase helps in the layout structure of your
slides, whether you want bullets, columns, graphs,
tables e.g...........
Design phase includes further enhancing the
appearance of your slides.....common typefaces fonts)
and sizes, borders and other art designs.
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Introduction to Powerpoint?
After this lesson one should know how to:
Create a presentation
View and edit a presentation
Save and open a presentation
Use the spelling checker
Delete, move and insert slides
Run a slide show
Change font and font size
Size and move objects
Preview and print a presentation
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Start the powerpoint
application by clicking:
Start button
Programmes
Microsoft office
Microsoft powerpoint
In some instances there is a shortcut
to powerpoint placed on the
desktop.
Your screen should be similar to the
next slide:
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TUTORIAL 1
Use notes from the second
lecture: Microsoft Word as an
example to create your
presentation.
Click to view Web Link,
click Chapter 5, Click Web Link
from left navigation,
then click Scanners
below Chapter 5
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SPELLING CHECK
Correct the spelling in the presentation by selecting Tools|Spelling from the menu bar or by pressing the F7 key
on the keyboard.
The spell checker will prompt you to make corrections of the first word that is spelled wrong.
If the word is spelled correctly, click Ignore or Ignore All if the same word appears several times during the
presentation. If this word will appear in many presentations (such as your name), click Add to add the word to
the dictionary and you won't be prompted by a misspelling again.
If the word is spelled wrong, highlight one of the the Suggestions or type your own revision in the Change to
box. Click Change to correct this occurrence of the word or Change All to correct all occurrences of the word in
the presentation.
Click Close to abort the spelling check early.
When the spell checker has read through the entire presentation, you will be prompted by a window telling you
that the spelling check is complete. Click OK.
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COPYING AND PASTING
Select the text to be copied
Go to edit then select copy
Position the pointer where you want to place the text you
copied
Repeat step 1 and instead of copy select paste in step 2.
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CUT AND PASTE
Select the text to be copied
Go to edit then select copy
Position the pointer where you want to place the text you
copied
Repeat step 1 and instead of copy select paste in step 2.
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SAVING A PRESENTATION
Click the Save button on the menu bar.
Select File|Save As from the menu bar.
Select the file name to save your presentation
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OPENING A SAVED PRESENTATION
Click the Open File button on the menu bar.
Choose File|Open from the menu bar.
Choose the file and click the Open button.
Click to view Web Link,
click Chapter 5, Click Web Link
from left navigation,
then click Ink-Jet Printers
below Chapter 5
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APPLYING COLOR
Select Format|Slide Color Scheme from the menu bar.
Click one of the preset color scheme thumbnail images in the Color
schemes box.
To make changes to the color scheme, click the Custom tab on the
dialog box.
Change the colors of the slide elements by selecting the color
swatch beside the name of the element and clicking the Change
color button.
Highlight one of the colors from the Text and Line Color window
or select the Custom tab to view more color choices and click OK
when finished.
When you have finished all color formatting, click Apply to All to
apply the color scheme to all the slides in the presentation or
Apply to add the scheme only to the current slide.
Click to view Web Link,
clickp.Chapter
193 Fig.5,5-43
Click Web Link Next
from left navigation,
INSERTING PICTURE
Position the insertion point at the location within the active
slide where you want to insert picture
Pull down the insert menu and choose picture, clip art.
The task pane will show the clip art controls.
Enter one or more keywords of your picture, results will be
available
Click on an image to insert it.
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TABLES
Start by placing the cursor where table is going to be placed
Go to table in menu bar, insert then select table.
Indicate the number of rows & columns for your table then ok.
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PRINTING A PRESENTATION
Select File
Go to Print
Type No. of pages
OK
To see how your document will look like
after printing you select print preview.
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