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PowerPoint 2007©: The Power
of Presentations
How can Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
help you share information?
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
PowerPoint
presentations
help you to
share
information
by displaying
your message
visually.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
Lesson 1 Objectives:
• Identify parts of the PowerPoint screen
• Work with the Ribbon, tabs, and groups
• Open an existing presentation
• Insert and edit text on slides
• start and run slide shows
• Preview and print a presentation
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
As you plan your PowerPoint presentation,
ask yourself the following questions:
• Who is my audience?
• How can I make my
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•
presentation
interesting to my
audience?
What will keep their
attention?
What do they already
know, and what do
they need to know?
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
The PowerPoint screen contains
Title bar
Quick Access
Toolbar
Start button
and status bar
Slide pane
Notes pane
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
PowerPoint automatically opens presentations in Normal
View, which divides the screen into two sections.
The Slides
and
Outline
tabs are on
the left.
Outline tab
Slides tab
Slide pane is on the right
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
The Slides and Outline tabs show you
different ways to view your presentation.
The Slides tab shows you a
miniature version of each
slide in your presentation.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
Use the Slides tab to organize the slides in your presentation.
You can cut a slide
from one location
and paste it into
another location.
You can also drag a slide from one position and drop it in another.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
In the Outline
tab, click the
slide icon next
to each slide
to move
among slides.
The Outline tab displays the content of your presentation in outline
form. You can use both panes to move around in your presentation.
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Slide Sorter View
shows you small
images of all the slides
in your presentation
in the slides pane.
You can use Slide Sorter View to add more slides or
change the order of slides in a presentation.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
To move from
slide to slide, use
the scroll bar on
the right edge of
the screen or the
Page Up/Down
keys on the
keyboard
The Next Slide and Previous Slide buttons also help you move among slides.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
Presentations usually begin with a title slide. The
title slide displays the title and subtitle.
Title of slide
When you create a new title slide, it
contains a preset text box called a
placeholder for the title and subtitle.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
When you
create a new
content slide, it
contains
placeholders
for the title and
text.
Placeholder
Each text box contains placeholders to let you know where to add content.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
You can set up a slide
show to run
automatically, or you
can manually move
from slide to slide.
To run a slide show manually, use the Set Up Show dialog box.
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Lesson 1: PowerPoint Basics
You can choose to show only selected slides
instead of an entire presentation.
Use the Set Up Show dialog
box to:
• Identify the slide numbers
you want to include
• Hide specific slides
• Loop your presentation
from the last slide back to
the first
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You can print any
number of slides—from
a single slide to the
entire presentation.
Select the slides you want to
print in the Print dialog box.
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Instead of printing
slides, you can print
handouts, which
have one or more
slides on each page
and space to take
notes.
Handouts allow your audience to follow your presentation, and they
provide a record of the items discussed.