Pasewark & Pasewark Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course INTRODUCTORY MICROSOFT POWERPOINT Lesson 1 – PowerPoint Basics

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Objectives Start PowerPoint. Open an existing presentation. Save a presentation. Navigate through a presentation, and use the menus and toolbars. Use the Slides and Outline tabs in normal view. Use the task pane, slide pane, and notes pane. Change views. Delete a slide. Print a presentation. Exit PowerPoint.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Terms Used in This Lesson Notes pane Outline tab Slide sorter Slides tab Task pane

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Introduction to PowerPoint PowerPoint will help you create a professional presentation. Illustrate your ideas using slides, outlines, speaker’s notes, and audience handouts. Presentations can include text, clip art, graphs, tables, charts, and sound or video clips. PowerPoint provides features such as design templates and wizards that help make creating a presentation easier.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Starting PowerPoint Start PowerPoint by clicking the Start button, selecting Programs, and clicking Microsoft PowerPoint.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Opening and Viewing an Existing Presentation To open an existing presentation, choose the presentation from the list in the PowerPoint task pane under the heading Open a presentation. If the presentation you want to open is not in the list, click the More presentations folder. To view the presentation, select View Show from the Slide Show menu on the menu bar.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Saving a Presentation To save a new presentation, choose Save As from the File menu or click the Save button on the toolbar to display the Save As dialog box.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Views Normal View displays four panes: the Slides pane, the task pane, the Outline pane, and the notes pane. Notes Page View displays your slides on the top portion of the page, with the speaker notes for each slide in the notes pane on the bottom of the page. Slide Sorter View displays miniature versions of the slides on screen so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging. In the Slide Show view, you can run your presentation on the computer as if it were a slide projector and preview how it will look.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Using Menus and Toolbars PowerPoint first displays a short menu with only basic commands. Expand the menu by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the menu. PowerPoint adjusts the menus to display the commands you use most frequently, adding a command when you choose it and dropping a command when it hasn’t been used recently. In Normal view, the three toolbars displayed on the screen by default are Standard, Formatting, and Drawing.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Deleting Slides Display the slide you want to delete, and choose Delete Slide from the Edit menu. If you accidentally delete the wrong slide, immediately choose Undo Delete Slide from the Edit menu to restore the slide or click the Undo button on the toolbar.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Printing a Presentation PowerPoint offers several print options: – Slides option – Notes Pages option – Outline View option – You can also choose to print one, two, three, four, six, or nine slides per page. In addition: – You can choose to print all the slides, only the current slide, or any combination of slides in your presentation. – You can choose either the Grayscale or Pure black and white option. – To make sure the slides print on the page correctly, there is a Scale to fit paper option. – With the Frame slides option, you can choose whether the border of the slides appears when printed.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint To close a presentation, choose Close from the File menu or click the presentation’s Close Window button. To exit PowerPoint, choose Exit from the File menu or click the PowerPoint Close box in the upper-right corner of the screen. If there are any unsaved changes to a presentation you have been working on, you will be asked if you want to save them before exiting.

Unit 5 – Lesson 1 Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Course Pasewark & Pasewark Summary PowerPoint can help you create a professional presentation. When you start PowerPoint, you have the choice of opening an existing presentation or creating a new one. You can view your presentation four different ways: Normal view, Notes Page view, Slide sorter view, and Slide show. You can print your presentation as slides using the Slides option, with notes using the Notes Pages option, or as an outline using the Outline View option. You can also choose to print handouts with two, three, four, six, or nine slides per page. To exit PowerPoint, choose Exit from the File menu.