1. Here is a video on beginning PowerPoint :

2. Controls Quick Launch Tools Home Tab with its Ribbon of Functions
Insert Tab with its Ribbon of Functions
Design Tab with its Ribbon of Functions
(Note the other Nine tabs and their Ribbons of Functions)

3. Creating New Slides Click the ‘Home’ tab
Click ‘New Slide’ and pick ‘Blank’
With the new slide highlighted,
press the ‘Ctrl’ key and the ‘c’ key
at the same time.
Press the ‘Ctrl’ key and the ‘v’ key
This is how you COPY and PASTE slides. In this case, a blank slide that you created
in steps one and two.
To copy and paste components within a slide, click on the component to be copied
(possible a graphic image) then press the ‘Ctrl’ and ‘c’ keys (copy it to the clipboard
in your computer) and then with the slide you want to paste the item into in the
large center portion of the screen, press the ‘Ctrl’ and ‘v’ keys to paste it from the
clipboard to that slide.

4. Basic Help Features
The last button on the top bar may be the most important button!
When your computer is off
line this screen will pop up.
When your computer is on
line this screen will pop up.
The ‘Search’ function
is important as are the
blue hyperlinks by topic.

5. Exercise One
Open the PowerPoint Application and save it on your desktop with the title
“Exercise One” and YOUR name as the subtitle.
Create four additional blank slides and activate (click on) the second slide
Click the ‘Insert’ tab and then click ‘Word Art’. Now choose any style and
type “Personal Info” into the Word Art box. Center it near the top by dragging
it and dropping it where you want it. Save your work!
With the Insert tab still active, click on ‘Text Box’ and type at least three pieces
of your contact data such as home address, , cell phone, Facebook page, etc.