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Gaudets Information Processing

INTRODUCTION
TO POWERPOINT

Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a presentation software program
that is part of the Microsoft Office package
Using PowerPoint, you can create screens that
effectively incorporate colorful text, images,
graphs, tables and movies
Animate text and illustrations and set up
transitions between slides
Print out materials to distribute when you are
making a presentation

PowerPoint Presentations
Terminology
PowerPoint
Presentation

Graphics application program used for creating

presentations, speeches, slides, etc.

Slides

Each screen that is displayed during a presentation

Layout

The way things are arranged on a slide

Slide Show
View

Takes up the full computer screen. You can see how

your graphics, timings, movies, animated elements and
transition effects will look during the actual show

Transitions

A set of transitional display effects that move from one

slide to the next

Animation

Animations are used to add a special visual to text or an

object

Text Box

Use text boxes to place text anywhere on a slide

Templates

Templates give the presentation a fully designed,

professional appearance
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PowerPoint 2016

Home

Format Text using

Underline, BOLD, italics
etc.

Add Bulleted or
Numbered Lists

Change
Font
Colors

Align Text

Layout

New Slide allows you

to create more slides
of information
Simply type in your title and text information
into the text boxes
Note: the layout of the text boxes can be
changed under the Layout tab

Shapes

Shapes

Insert a variety of Shapes

including Basic Shapes, Stars,
Arrows, Action Buttons etc.

Arrange

Insert

Table

Shapes

WordArt

Text Box

Table

Select the Table icon and choose the

appropriate number of Rows and
Columns to create a Table

WordArt

Text Box
This is a Text
Box

Pictures

1. Choose Online Pictures

2. Type in a search term to find
pictures
3. Select Image
4. Click Insert

SmartArt

A SmartArt graphic is a visual representation

of your information that you can quickly and
easily create
Choose from among many different layouts, to
effectively communicate your message or
ideas.

Chart

Create a variety of
charts including
Column, Line, Pie,
Bar, Area and Scatter.

Design

Choose from a variety of

designs for your presentation

Color variations
for designs

Background

Choose a solid background

color or from a variety of
gradient, texture and pattern
fills

Transitions

Transition effects between

slides

Animations

Animate text and images

on your slide with a variety
of entrance, emphasis and
exit effects

Slide Show

View your slide show to test the

animations, transitions and
how the layout appears in full
screen view.
Set up your show to have each
slide display for a certain period
of time before it automatically
advances to the next slide.

Set Up Show

Review

Check Spelling and

use the Thesaurus

View

Change the way you can

view the PowerPoint slides