Lesson 7: PowerPoint – Creating Powerful Presentations

Learning Objectives After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

Identify key parts of the PowerPoint window

Navigate through a presentation

Work with design themes and slide layouts

Explore the different PowerPoint views

Ad clip art, animations, and transitions

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Introducing the PowerPoint Window

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Slides tab

Quick Access toolbar Ribbon

Next Slide and Previous Slide Buttons

Title Bar

Navigate in a Presentation

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Click a thumbnail icon to switch to that slide in the slide pane

Drag the scroll bar to switch slides; ToolTip displays slide number and title

Use the Previous Slide and Next Slide buttons to move through the presentation

PowerPoint Views

Normal: Primary view used to create presentations

Slide Sorter: Displays all slides in miniature

Good way to overview a presentation

Convenient view for moving slides

Reading View: Presentation fills the screen but taskbar still visible for switching among programs

Slide Show: View for delivering presentations

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Normal

Slide Sorter Reading View

Slide Show

PowerPoint Themes Themes provide professional looking color

schemes and graphics

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Hover mouse pointer over theme to display Live Preview

Type Text in a Slide Slides contain dotted boxes, which

are placeholders where you type the content of your presentation

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Handles appear when you select the placeholder

Rotate handle Flashing insertion point

Move pointer

Slide Layouts Layouts provide various ways to organize your content

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Title placeholder

Subtitle placeholder

Content placeholder

Title placeholder

Clip Art

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Tip! The Clip Art task pane behaves the same way in PowerPoint as it does in Word.

Insert a new slide that contains a clip art placeholder

Click the Clip Art icon to display the Clip Art task pane

Navigate in Slide Show View Mouse navigation

Click left mouse button

Slideshow toolbar

Appears in bottom-left corner of Slideshow view

Keyboard navigation

Page Up and Page Down buttons

Arrow keys

Spacebar

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Previous slide

Next slide

Select pen to annotate or highlight

Provides menu of navigation options

Animate Your Slide Show Bring life to your presentation

Fly in

Wake up your audience

Maintain audience attention

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Add Transitions to Your Slide Show Transition from one slide to the next; graphic

effect that leads to the next slide

The “six o’clock news” effect

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