PowerPoint Basics: Create Your First Presentation
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ScribdTranslationsTP1 – Introduction to PowerPoint - Basic Features
During this first lab, you will use the basic features presented in class in order to
build your first presentation. By the end of this practical work, you should know:
• Launch Powerpoint
• Know the PowerPoint interface
• Create a new presentation and use design templates.
• Insert slides using slide templates
• Use masks to create a cohesive presentation
• Add headers and footers
• Add slide comments Navigate through the different display modes
• Format text
• Record your presentation
I propose several exercises that naturally follow one another and lead you to build
step by step a presentation.
Exercise 1 - Creating and saving a presentation
1. Launch PowerPoint and create a new presentation (File/New)
2. Go to the 'Design Templates' tab and choose a template from those offered.
3. Add a 'Title Slide'
Discovering Lorraine
Edit the subtitle: 'Year 2022-2023'
6. Save your presentation using your name as the file name.
Exercise 2 – Adding a bullet list
1. Insert a new slide with a bullet list layout, and for the title "Plan"
»
2. Enter the information to obtain a slide that looks like the slide
next :
• A little bit of method
• Geographic situation
• Demography in Lorraine
Exercise 3 - Adding information in Plan mode
Switch to Plan Mode
2. Complete the 'Plan' slide to include the latest items from the list.
fleas.
• The population in Lorraine
• The manufacturing of steel
• Références
3. Switch back to Normal mode
Exercise 4 - Manage the indentation of bullet lists, and format text
1. Insert a slide with the layout 'Bullet List', and the title 'Situation'
geographical
2. Enter the information so that your slide looks like that in the following figure.
• Lorraine comprises 4 departments
➢ Meurthe and Moselle (54)
➢ Meuse (55)
➢ Moselle (57)
➢ Vosges (88)
• Population : 2 319 000 habitants
• Area: 23,547 km2
• Average density: 99 inhabitants per km2
[Link] the words "Population", "Area" and "Average Density" using the menu.
Format / Police or using the shortcuts from the toolbox
Exercise 5 Headers and Footers
In Display / Headers and Footers, add:
1. Your name and first names
2. The slide number
3. At the bottom of the pages, add the title of the presentation: 'Discovering Lorraine'
4. Check the box so that the headers and footers do not display on the page
of title.
Exercise 6 Insert a slide with text in two columns
1. Insert a new slide with the layout "Text in 2 columns" and for
A little bit of method
2. Enter the text (see following table) so that your slide looks like the figure
next
3. Save your work! (Computing is sometimes a mystical science that provides you
a relatively intense inconvenience... especially when the program crashes and you
You have lost all your work, so a good advice: Back up regularly.
➢ Think about the outline of the presentation ➢ Preparing your speech
➢ Make a clear and airy presentation ➢ Do not underestimate the essence of the speech.
homogeneous ➢ Consider the target audience
➢ The presentation must be pleasant to ➢ Think about the duration!!!
read
Exercise 7 - Copy/Paste/Delete slides
If you look at the plan (on slide 2), the slide 'A little bit of method' should
appear before the slide 'Geographic Situation'... which is not the case currently
(check it), we are going to move the slide 'A little method' to put it in the right place
place.
[Link] to Normal mode (which should be the case, see the end of exercise 3)
2. Select the slide "A bit of method", it should be slide 4
3. Go to the Edit menu, and click on 'Copy' (or use the shortcut Ctrl+C)
4. Click on the 'Plan' slide (it should be slide 2)
5. Go to the Edit menu and click on 'Paste' (use the shortcut Ctrl+V)
Normally, a copy of the slide "A little bit of method" should be found among the
Slides "Plan" and "Geographical Situation". The first copy of the slide "A little
"method" (slide 5) is now excessive, it needs to be removed.
6. Select slide "A little method" number 5 and delete it.
Exercise 8 Printing and Displaying the Presentation
1. Switch to Sorter mode to get an overview of your presentation.
2. Switch back to normal mode and start the slideshow (Slideshow Menu, or shortcut F5)
3. Scroll through the slideshow to see what a projection on screen would look like. Then exit.
exit this mode by pressing "Escape"
4. Allez dans le menu Fichier et cliquez sur « Imprimer » ou utilisez le raccourci Ctrl+P
At the top of the window, you can select the printer you want to print to.
your document
6. In the "Print:" field at the bottom of the window, it usually says "Slides"
selected, change it and select "Documents"
7. You can now set the number of slides per page, select in general
3 or 6.
8. Then click Cancel because we do not wish to print the document (there's no point)
for this lab). If you wanted to print it, you would have to click on Ok
Exercise 9 Add slide comments
We will see how to add comments to slides. These comments are not
not visible when you start the presentation, they can only be read when you print them
or when you edit your presentation using PowerPoint.
1. Switch to 'Comment Page' view mode (View menu)
2. Go to the slide 'Geographical Situation'
[Link] the following comment in the space provided for this purpose:
The different figures presented on this slide are taken from the ANPE website:
Exercise 10 – Modification of title and slide masks
We will use title and slide masks to modify some characteristics of
all the slides.
1. In Display / Mask, choose Title Mask
2. Change the font of the title to 'Comic Sans MS', make it bold and change its color.
(select the title and go to the Format / Font menu)
3. In View / Slide Master, choose Slide Master
4. Select 'Second level' and change the bullet style (right-click on the text
sélectionné puis Puces et Numéros)
5. Modify the colors of the different levels of bullets
[Link] to Slide Show mode to see the result