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Making Powerpoint Presentation
PowerPoint is a presentation software that allows users to create professional slideshows. It provides tools for adding text, images, graphs and other media. A PowerPoint presentation consists of a series of slides that convey a message or story. The document then outlines 17 basic steps for creating a PowerPoint presentation, such as opening PowerPoint, choosing a template or theme, adding titles and content to slides, formatting text, inserting pictures and shapes, and adding transitions and animations between slides. It concludes by explaining how to save and present the completed slideshow.
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- 2. What is PowerPoint? •PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn.
- 3. Basic tasks forcreating a PowerPoint presentation. • PowerPoint presentations work like slide shows. To convey a message or a story, you break it down into slides. Think of each slide as a blank canvas for the pictures, words, and shapes that will help you build your story.
- 4. Let’s start creatingyour presentation in a simple way…
- 5. 1. Open PowerPoint.You will see a blank screen with two boxes in the middle of the screen. One of the boxes says "Click to add title," the other says "Click to add subtitle."
- 6. 2. On thetab at the upper left side of your screen, hit the "File" tab.
- 7. 3. On thevertical toolbar to the left, hit the "New" tab.
- 8. 4. If youwish to use a template, click on the "Sample templates" box. A template is a slideshow with a preloaded background that is designed for specific presentations, such as an itinerary or a status report.
- 9. 5. Click onthe template you want to use, depending on the purpose of your presentation. If you don't find the kind of template you need for your presentation, it's probably best to choose a theme.
- 10. 6. If youwish to use a theme, click on the "Themes" box in the "New" tab. A theme is a slideshow with a preloaded background that can be used for general presentations.
- 11. 7. Click onthe specific template or theme you want to work with from the list of choices.
- 12. 8. Once yourtheme is loaded, click on the "Click to add title" and "Click to add subtitle" boxes and add the title and subtitle (if necessary) of your own presentation.
- 13. 9. After decidingon a title, click on the "New Slide" button in the "Slides" tab up top. You can also create a new slide with the shortcut (Ctrl + M).
- 14. 10. Continue addinginformation and pictures as you see fit. In PowerPoint, however, less is often more.
- 15. 11. Format yourtext • Select the text. • Under Drawing Tools, click Format. • Do one of the following: • To change the color of your text, click Text Fill, and then choose a color. • To change the outline color of your text, click Text Outline, and then choose a color. • To apply a shadow, reflection, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation, a transform, click Text Effects, and then choose the effect you want.
- 16. Change the fonts. Changethe text color. Add bullets or numbers to text. Change the color and style of a bulleted or numbered list. Format text as superscript or subscript. Clear all text formatting.
- 17. 12. Add shapes Onthe Insert tab, click Shapes. Pick the shape that you want, click anywhere on the slide, and then drag to draw the shape.
- 18. 13. Add pictures Onthe Insert tab, do one of the following: To insert a picture that is saved on your local drive or an internal server, click Pictures on my PC, browse for the picture, and then click Insert.
- 19. 14. To addTransition: Click Transitions. Select the desired transition.
- 20. 15. To addAnimation: Click Animations. Select the desired animation.
- 21. 16. Once youare finished with your PowerPoint presentation, go to "File > Save As" and save your file so that you can retrieve it later.
- 22. 17. When youwant to view your presentation as a series of slides, click on the "Slide Show" tab and then click on "From Beginning" top left or simple click F5.
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