Introduction to PowerPoint

1. Introduction to PowerPoint PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

2. What is PowerPoint 2000? • On-screen Presentation • Overhead Transparencies • 35mm Slides • Notes • Outlines • Handouts • Even Banners of Web sites!

3. Starting PowerPoint There are many different ways of starting PowerPoint

4. The opening PowerPoint screen • Used to open an existing presentation or to create a new presentation

5. PowerPoint and Microsoft Office PowerPoint is part of the Microsoft Office suite and as such is able to share information freely with Word, Excel and Access

6. Slides and Presentations

7. Opening an existing presentation

8. Saving a presentation Ctrl+S

9. Closing a presentation and exiting PowerPoint Alt+F4 will exit PowerPoint

10. The PowerPoint Screen & Views PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

11. The Standard Toolbar

12. The Formatting Toolbar

13. Status Bar • The Status Bar provides information about: • The PowerPoint view you are in • The slide you are editing • The design you are using • Allows you to change the Template Design and run the spell checker

14. The View Icons • You can work on your PowerPoint presentation in a range of different views: • Normal • Outline View • Slide View • Slide Sorter View • Slide Show

15. Normal View

16. Outline View

17. Slide View

18. Slide Sorter View

19. Slide Show View

20. Using AutoLayout PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

21. Choosing an AutoLayout • When you add a new slide to a presentation you are prompted to select from a range of different slide layouts, such as a “Title Page”, or a “Bulleted Page”

22. The Title Slide

23. Bulleted List

24. Two Column Text

25. Table

26. Text and Chart

27. Organization Chart

28. Chart (i.e. Graphs)

29. Text and Clipart

30. Blank

31. Using the AutoContent Wizard PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

32. Starting the AutoContent Wizard

33. Selecting a Presentation Type within the AutoContent Wizard

34. Presentation Type

35. Presentation Title, Footers, and Slide Numbers

36. Completing the Wizard

37. The Finished Presentation

38. The Presentation Content

39. Creating a Simple Text Slide PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

40. Creating a New Blank Presentation

41. Selecting a Slide Layout

42. Simple Text Slide Click with the Left mouse button and enter slide title Click and type in the information that will make up your first bullet point, press Return to enter next bulleted point TIP To insert a space between bullet points use Shift+Return

43. To Insert a New Slide You can insert a new slide at any time when creating or editing a presentation

44. Deleting and re-ordering slides within a presentation • Make sure that you can: • Select a slide • Delete a slide • Re-order the slides within your presentation

45. Manipulating slides in Outline View • Make sure that you know how to: • Move slides/bullets • Reduce the view of a slide to title only • Expand a collapsed slide • Collapse all slides • Expand all slides • Create a Summary Slide • Toggle 'Show Formatting' display

46. Creating Notes for your Slides • In Normal View enter accompanying notes for each slide in the Notes section

47. Formatting and Proofing Text PowerPoint 2000 - Foundation

48. Formatting Options

49. SELECT! then DO! REMEMBER To format text you should first select the required text Then apply the formatting

50. Text Formatting • Sample text normal • Sample text Bold • Sample text Italic • Sample text Underlined • Sample text Shadowed • Sample text Red • Sample text Bold, Italic, Underlined and Red