Welcome to Power Point!

A short tutorial to get you started

When you open PowerPoint this is what you will see….

Use this to start a new presentation

This is where you will open a presentation you have already saved

Choose OK when finished

When Power Point begins it will ask what type of slide to insert first

Title Slide

Blank Slide Slide Description

Review some of the items on the toolbar

New

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Font Font size BoldItalics

Underline

Whenever you see a double arrow you can click it for additional buttons that you don’t see on the toolbar.

Save

These are other helpful tools

Cut: This is used to cut things out of your project

Copy: this is used to copy from one portion of your project to another

Paste: When you cut or copy something from your project, it is put on an “imaginary” clipboard. The paste button retrieves it from the clipboard and places it in your project

Things you can insert….New Slide : This button on the toolbar will allow us to add more sides to the presentation

Most of the other buttons are towards the bottom of the screen

Various Shapes line arrow rectangles oval text box text art clipart

Fill Color Line Color Font Color Line Width Line Type Arrow Type Shadow 3-D

If you move your cursor over any icon on the screen and leave the mouse there for a second, the name of what the icon represents will appear.

If you forget what the icons are:

The Slide Show menu will help you run your show:

This will run your show

This will have you set up animations with the objects on your slide

This allows you to change the transitions between slides