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PowerPoint

Essentials Mariana Nájera

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Presentation Views• You can view a presentation in many different ways. Kinds of views:

• Normal: Default view. Focuses on individual slides. Notes are below. On the left is

the Slides pane with the rest of the presentation.

• Slide Sorter: displays all slides on a single screen.

• Notes Page: shows 1 slide at a time along with its notes.

• Slide Show: preview your presentation, the way your audience sees it.

• Reading: like slide show, but in a window instead of the entire screen.

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PowerPoint

• You can choose the color scale, and it can

be Color, Greyscale or Black and White.

• Zoom lets you magnify the slides.

• You can see multiple presentations at once

and manage them so they are all visible.

This helps compare and modify them.

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Presentation Properties and Basics.

• The properties of a presentation are the

title, the author’s name, and key words.

• You can save a presentation in many

formats, including one that is compatible

with older versions of PowerPoint.

• The default format is an XML format.

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Printing a Presentation

• Print Preview shows you how your presentation

will look on paper before you print it. It is

integrated into Backstage View. Formats:

• Full Page Slides: one slide per page.

• Notes Page: one per page with its notes.

• Outline: in outline form, without graphics.

• Handouts: multiple slides per page.

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Formatting Paragraphs

• You can align paragraphs to the right, left, or

center. It applies to the whole paragraph. You

can also justify, to distribut the text evenly.

• You can adjust the line spacing to have more or

less room between lines. It can be 1, 1.5, 2,

2.5, or 3.

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Formatting Paragraphs

• Bullets are small dots or other shapes

that appear before a short phrase or word.

• There are up to 9 levels of bullets.

• The bullets differ depending on the theme.

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Text Box

• Quick Styles: quickly format a text box with fill, border,

or effects.

• It can also format other things, like WordArt. You can

format text.

• You can align the text in a text box as you can other text.

When you change paragraph, it stays aligned that way.

• You can set up columns in text boxes.

• You can turn off the spelling options so it doesn’t correct

or change.

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Designing a Presentation

• You can apply themes to presentation and preview

it before you choose.

• You can change the colors of the theme with the

present schemes or design your own.

• Each theme has two fonts, which are the font

theme. It’s called the same as the theme it

belongs to.

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Designing a Presentation

• There are many fonts to choose from. A serif is a

flourish on a letter. You can create new theme fonts.

• You can change the default background and insert

images, patterns, or other fills.

• You can footers, which is text that repeats at the

bottom of each page. You can also add the date and a

header, which is like a footer but at the top.

• Sections are ways to select groups of slides together.

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Have a nice day.

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