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PowerPoint Presentation Overview

PowerPoint is a Microsoft software that allows the creation of presentations using slides with text, images, music, and animations to keep the audience's attention. Presentations in PowerPoint can be used to give lectures, launch products, or communicate ideas. The slides are displayed sequentially during the presentation to explain concepts through images, graphs, and text.

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PowerPoint Presentation Overview

PowerPoint is a Microsoft software that allows the creation of presentations using slides with text, images, music, and animations to keep the audience's attention. Presentations in PowerPoint can be used to give lectures, launch products, or communicate ideas. The slides are displayed sequentially during the presentation to explain concepts through images, graphs, and text.

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Entering PowerPoint

1- What is the definition of PowerPoint?

Power Point or PowerPoint is the name of one of the


most popular programs created by Microsoft. It is about
asoftwarethat allows making presentations through
slides.
Theprogramconsider the possibility of using text,
images, music, and animations. In this way, the
user creativity is crucial for the
presentations are attractive and manage to hold the
receiver's attention.

PowerPoint is part of the office [Link]


Officealong with Word, Excel, and other programs. Due to its features, it is the
best option offered by Microsoft to teach a class, launch a product
to communicate an idea to an audience.

Let's assume that a scientist must provide aconferenceFor this,


Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to be displayed on a screen.
giant, installed in the center of the stage. While the scientist speaks, the
the screen shows different slides with the main ideas, graphics
and other information. The speaker himself takes care of deciding when to move on.
the following slide using a mouse, a stylus, or another
tool.

PowerPoint presentations can also be shared through


onecomputer, without the need for a public act. A young man
You can create a presentation to greet your father on his birthday and
send it to the honoree as an attachment to an email. In
In these cases, compatibility issues are likely to arise if the receiver
does not have the same version of PowerPoint or cannot view the file
with the presentation if you do not have the program installed on your own computer.

2 Steps to Enter the PowerPoint Program:


1° Click on the Start button.
2° Click or point to the sub-menu All Programs.
3rd Click on Microsoft Office.
4° Click on PowerPoint 2013.
3-Parts of Environment or Power Point Windows

4-Elements of the home screen


When you start PowerPoint, an initial screen appears like the one we show you.
Next. Now we will learn the names of the different
elements of this screen and it will be easier to understand the rest of the course.
The window can be customized to change the tools and buttons that
are available, so you should take the course images as a
guidance resource, which may not be identical to what you see on your screen.
We have included descriptive notes for each element. It is important that you
get familiar with the names of each one, so you can easily follow the
explanations, since these terms are usually used.
Let’s comment, broadly, on the characteristics of each element.
In the central part of the window is where we visualize and create
the slides that will make up the presentation. A slide is nothing more than
one of the many screens that are part of a presentation is like a
page of a book.
The scheme area shows miniature slides that we are going to
creating referenced with their number. When selecting a slide in the area
The slide will immediately appear in the workspace.
central in order to modify it.

3. Quick Access Toolbar


usually contains the options that are used most frequently. These
Save, Undo (to undo the last action
done), Redo (to recover the action we have undone)
Presentation from the beginning (to start the presentation of
full-screen slides). It is important that you use these fluently.
tools, since the most frequent thing when we work, despite everything, is
to make mistakes and safeguard our work.
If you want to customize the buttons that appear in the access bar
Quickly, visit the following advanced resource where it explains how to do it.
The title bar contains the name of the open document that is being
visualizing, besides the name of the program. They accompany them in the area
to the right are the minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons, common in almost
all the windows of the Windows environment.

5. The options dropdown is the most important element of all, since it


it is about a strip that contains the necessary tools and utilities for
perform actions in PowerPoint. It is organized into tabs that encompass
logical categories. We will see it in detail later.
6. By modifying the zoom, we can zoom in or out the point of view, to
appreciate in more detail or see an overview of the slides that
They are found in the work area.
You can directly press the percentage value (which, initially, will be
usually the actual size, 100%). A window will open where you can adjust the
desired zoom.
Or you can slide the marker to the buttons -o+ that are right at the
side, dragging it.
7. With the view buttons we can choose the type of
View that we want to use as it suits us. For example, we can have
an overview of all the slides we have, we can also
run the presentation to see how it looks, etc.
In PowerPoint, you can work with five different views to create a
presentation. Each of them provides different perspectives on the work
what is being done and gives us different possibilities. One can change from
view using the "View" buttons at the bottom left of the window
PowerPoint or through the View menu. The two main views that are used
In PowerPoint, there is the Normal view and the Slide Sorter view.
switch from one view to another easily, just click on the
buttons located in the bottom left corner of the window
PowerPoint.
The Normal view contains three panels: the outline panel, the panel of
slides and the notes panel.
These panels allow working on all aspects of the presentation from
the same place. The size of the different panels can be adjusted by dragging.
the edges of the panels.
8. The notes area will be where we add the support annotations for
make the presentation. To show it, we will press the buttonNotes
.

These notes are not visible in the presentation, but if we indicate it this way, we can
make them appear when printing the presentation on paper.
The status bar shows information about the document's status, such as the
number of slides, the topic used, or the language in which it is being
drafting.
WORKSHOP
After reading the previous document, answer in the notebook the following
questions:
What is PowerPoint?
2. What is a presentation?
3. What are presentations used for?
4. What is the advantage of PowerPoint?
5. What is a slide?
6. List the objects and aids that can be used in presentations.
PowerPoint.
7. How many views does PowerPoint have?
8. In which view can a slide index be placed?
9. What are the main views?
10. Explain the normal view.

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