With Micosoft PowerPoint, you can create productive and powerful presentations that you can use to Promote, Market, or Publicise a brand, product, or an organization.
Getting Started With Microsoft PowerPoint
The first step in learning Microsoft PowerPoint like any other computer program is familiarizing yourself with its "User Interface and Tools". You will then need to most importantly, know, practice and use of its tools.What You can Do with Microsoft PowerPoint
With a good know-how of this presentation program, you can do the following effectively on your own.- Create a presentation.
- Design and optimize the presentation you created.
- Preview the presentation to have an idea of what it will look like when delivering it.
- Create a powerful presentation to market your brand.
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT USER INTERFACE
Microsoft PowerPoint interface contains the following menu/tools as from version 2007 and later versions.Work Area/space
This occupies the central part of the screen in the PowerPoint program. It is where your presentation is displayed as you design it.Title Bar
This is found at the top of the program showing the title of the presentation that is currently active.
Standard buttons
This is found at the top of the title bar of Microsoft Powerpoint 2007, the buttons here are the save , undo and redo buttons.
Home Menu Toolbar
The Home toolbar menu compose ofcommand buttons, which are listed below:
- Clipboard containing cut/ copy/paste.
- Slides containing slide, reset, delete, layout.
- Font containing font style,font size font color and formatting of text.
- Paragraph containing alignment, bullets, numbering.
- Drawing containing autoshapes, other format shapes, alignment and fill color.
- Editing containing find, and select.
Insert Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consists of the following command buttons:- Tables where you can insert table.
- Media where you can insert picture, clipart, photo album, shapes, and smart chart into your for your presentation.
- Links where you can link using hyperlink within the document or to the internet.
- Text where you can insert text box, header and footer, word art, time, slide number, and symbol.
- Clips where you can insert movie and sound into your presentation.
Design Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Page Setup where you can do Page Setup, and Orientation.
- Themes where you can select a custom theme that will automatically apply once you hover mouse on it.
- Background where you can apply background styles and hide background graphics of your presentation templates.
Animation Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Preview where you can preview your slide.
- Animations where you can apply motion and effect or animation.
- Transitions are visual effects when moving from one slide to the next. If you click on the Transitions tab, on the top of the ribbon, you will see that there are many different transitions you can apply to one slide or to all slides at the same time. You can apply continues slide and time, sound, and speed for your slide presentation.
Slide Show Menu Toolbar Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Start slide where you can click to start your transition slide presentation.
- Setup where you can setup slide show, or rehearse your presentation.
- Monitors where you can increase and decrease resolution of your monitor screen, and also use presenter view.
Review Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Proofing where you can check spelling, research, thesaurus, translate, and language.
- Comments where you can do mark up, comment, delete, previous and next presentation slide.
View Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Presentation where you can set normal, slide show pages, slide show, slide master, and notes master.
- Show/Hide where you can apply ruler, grid lines,and guide you in editing. Zoom where you can increase and decreasesize of your slide without using the zoom in/zoom out.
- Change Scale where you can apply or change background of graphics.
- Macros where you can record or create macros for your presentation slide.
Format Menu Toolbar
This toolbar menu consist of the following command buttons:- Insert shape where you can select or format auto shapes.
- Styles where you can format or change color, outline, effects, and fill color.
- Word art styles where change the style of the font.
- Arrange where you can arrange autoshapes and font.
- Size where you can set up the size of the auto shapes and of the presentation slide.
File Menu Button
From the file menu toolbar, you have to save, new template, open, print and other tools.Slide Sorter View
This lets you see two or more slides in a single view. It is most often used when creating transitions between slides and also for adding, deleting or moving slides.Status Bar
This provides some useful messages regarding the presentation that you are currently working on.You may like to check out my Microsoft PowerPoint book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple or any other of your favorite eBook store.
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Related posts:
- Tips for the Beginners Indie Author
- How to Open U.S Payoneer Checking Bank Account and Use it to Receive Royalties via EFT
- How To Use Microsoft Word to Format Your Manuscript as an eBook
- eBook Cover Design Tips
- Tips on eBook Formatting and Preparation for Publishing
You can use the comments box to drop your feedback here.
No comments:
Post a Comment