Introduction To Computer

Experiment # 05

OBJECTIVE:
An introduction to the Microsoft Power Point for Windows

WHAT IS POWER POINT?

Power Point is the presentation software packaged with Microsoft Office. It enables to make a
point in powerful way using slides. Presentation is composed of several slides. Each slide
covering a new topic.

GETTING STARTED WITH POWER POINT:

Click on START menu Click PROGRAMS and then select MICROSOFT POWER POINT

CREATING PRESENTATION USING BLANK SLIDES:

 On the standard toolbar, click NEW.

 In the SLIDE LAYOUT task pane, click the layout.
 On the slide or on the outline type the text.
 To insert a new slide, click NEW SLIDE on the toolbar.
 Save the finished slides.
CREATING PRESENTATION USING DESIGN TEMPLATE:

 Click NEW from the FILE menu.

 Under NEW click DESIGN TEMPLATE.
 In the SLIDE DESIGN task pane, click the desired template.
 Type the text on the slide or on the outline tab.
 To insert new slide, click NEW SLIDE on the toolbar.
 To save the presentation, click SAVE in the file menu.

CHANGING SLIDE ORDER:

Do one of the following:

 On the OUTLINE tab in a normal view, select one or more slide icons, and then drag the
selection to a new location.
 On the SLIDES tab in a normal view, select one or more slide thumbnails, and them drag
the thumbnails to a new location.
 In slide sorter view, select one or more slide thumbnails, and then drag the thumbnails to
a new location.
 To select multiple slides in arrow, press shift before clicking the slide icon or thumbnail.

DELETING A SLIDE:

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Select the slide from the OUTLINE tab in normal view. On the EDIT menu, click DELETE
SLIDE.

HIDING A SLIDE:

On the SLIDE tab in the normal view, select the slide On the SLIDE SHOW menu, click HIDE
SLIDE. The hidden slide ion appears with the slide number inside, next to the slide which is
hidden.

APPLYING A SLIDE LAYOUT:

 On the FORMAT menu, select SLIDE LAYOUT.
 On the SLIDES tab in the normal view, select the slide.
 In the SLIDE LAYOUT task pane, point to the layout, and then click it.

APPLYING A DESIGN TEMPLATE:

 On the FORMATTING toolbar, click DESIGN.
 To apply a design template to all slides, click the template.
 To apply a template to a single slide, select the thumbnail on the SLIDES tab, and in the
task pane, click the template.
CREATE A TABLE:
 Select the slide.
 On the Standard Toolbar click INSERT TABLE.
 Select the number of Rows and Columns.

ADDING TRANSITION BETWEEN SLIDES:

 On the SLIDE SHOW menu click SLIDE TRANSITION.
 Select TRANSITION EFFECTS.
 Click APPLY TO ALL SLIDES.
 To apply different Transition Effect between slides repeat the above steps for each
slide.
USING THE SLIDE SORTER VIEW:
The SLIDE SORTER VIEW crams as many slides as possible on screen. To switch to the
SLIDE SORTER VIEW, choose VIEW, then SLIDE SORTER.

USING THE SLIDE SHOW VIEW:

The SLIDE SHOW VIEW lets to see how the presentation actually looks so that missing
graphics, flaws or omissions can be spotted to switch the SLIDE SHOW VIEW
 Choose VIEW then click SLIDE SHOW.
 The slide show dialog box appears click SHOW.
 To see next slide press the up or right arrow key.
 Press ESC to exit the slide show.

SELECTING AND IMPORTING CLIP ART:

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 Choose VIEW and select the slide.

 From the INSERT menu, choose CLIPART the Microsoft clipart gallery dialog box
appears.
 Click a category, and then select the picture.
 The selected picture is displayed on slide.
RE-SIZING A PICTURE ON SLIDE:
 Click the picture, white handles appears around the picture.
 Move the mouse pointer over a white handles.
 Hold-down the left mouse button and drag the mouse to change picture size.
 Release the mouse button.

MOVING THE PICTURE:

 Click the picture.
 Hold the left mouse button, white handles appears.
 Drag the mouse to a new location.
 Release the mouse button.

CROPPING THE PICTURE:

Cropping means cutting out certain parts of a picture. To cropper a picture:
 Click the picture.
 From TOOLS menu select CROP PICTURE.
 The mouse pointer turns into a pair of overlapping carpenter’s squares.
 To crop the top, bottom or sides plays the cropping tools over one of the middle handles
and drag into the picture.

CREATING LINES AND SHAPES:

Power point provides six basics tools for creating our own drawings. The freeform tool turns the
mouse pointer into a pencil point, letting us to draw anything .to use any drawing tools
 Click the DRAWING TOOL.
 The mouse pointer turns into a cross hair.
 Click the upper left location, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the mouse down,
and drag the mouse down and to the right.
 Release the left mouse button.

Exercise:
Prepare a presentation in PowerPoint on any topic …….

Teacher Signature:__________________ Date:_________________

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