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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.

What is PowerPoint?

To convey a message or a story, you break it down into slides. 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.

Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation

The tabbed Ribbon menu system is how you access the various PowerPoint commands

Above the Ribbon in the upper-left corner is the Microsoft Office button 

From here, you can access important options such as New, Save, Save As, and Print

Creating new presentations

Click the Microsoft Office button, and choose New from the menu

The New Presentation dialog box will appear. Blank presentation is selected

by default

Slide basicsPlaceholders can contain many different items, including text,

pictures, and charts

To insert a new slideClick the New Slide command in the Slides group on the Home tab

To change the layout of an existing slideClick the Layout command in the Slides group on the Home tab

Click an option to select itThe slide will change in the presentation

To insert text

Click the placeholder or text box where you want to insert textTo format font sizeClick the drop-down arrow next to the font size box on the Home tab

To insert a text box

Select the Insert tab on the Ribbon

Click the Text Box command in the Text group

Click and drag the cursor until the text box is the desired width

Select the Insert tab.Click the Insert Picture command in the Illustrations group.

Locate and select the picture you want to use.

To resize a picture:

Select the picture.Click one of the corner sizing handles

The cursor will turn into a cross

While holding down the mouse button, drag the sizing handle until the image is the desired size

Release the mouse button

Modifying picturesWhen you select a picture, a Picture Tools Format tab appears on the Ribbon

To apply a picture style

Click the More drop-down arrow to display all the picture styles.

To change the shape of a picture

Click the Picture Shape icon

To insert a clip art from the Ribbon

Inserting MoviesClick the drop-down arrow on the Movie command in the Media Clips group

To preview the movie

Working with tables

Enter the number of table columns and rows in the dialog box

Options on the Design tab

To insert a row

Working with Charts

To insert a chartClick the Insert Chart command

Click and drag the scroll bar to view the chart types, or click a label on the left of the dialog box to see a specific chart style

Enter chart dataThe data that

appears in the Excel spreadsheet is

placeholder source data you'll replace

with your own information.

To enter chart dataSelect a cell in the Excel spreadsheet

Select any cells with placeholder data remaining

Animating Text and Objects

To apply a custom animation effect

Click Add Effect in the task pane to add an animation effect to the selected text or object

Using Transitions

To apply a transition to one slideLocate the Transition to This Slide group

To set slide transition speed

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