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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2013
• presentation software application
that aids users in the creation of
professional, high-impact, dynamic
presentations
• Slides are the building blocks of a
PowerPoint presentation.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 includes advanced
and easy-to-use features
• New and improved
presenter tools
• Better design tools
• Improved video and audio
support
• A new comments pane.
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Best Practices for creating presentations:
✔ Identify the critical information that needs to be presented and
include it in your presentation.
✔ Use no more than six bullet points per slide.
✔ Keep bullet points short and to the point. Incomplete sentences are
okay.
✔Minimize the number of font types used in your presentation.
✔Keep font sizes consistent.
✔ Do not make all of the text uppercase
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Best Practices for creating presentations:
✔For contrast, use a light-colored font on a dark background and vice
versa.
✔ Use bold formatting to make appropriate words stand out.
✔Minimize the use of italics. They are more difficult to read.
✔ Do not vary the look of one slide greatly from the next. Consistency
is key.
✔ Identify text that can be represented pictorially and use appropriate
graphics in its place.
✔Remove unnecessary graphics that are not relevant to the
information present
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Best Practices for creating presentations:
✔Use consistent colors and font size on each slide.
✔ Do not use unusually bright colors.
✔Do not clutter the slides with too many graphics.
✔Use graphics and transitions sparingl
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The Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Interface
The Ribbon
✔ a panel that contains functional groupings of buttons and drop-down lists
organized by tabs
✔ made up of a set of tabs that pertain to the different functionalities of
PowerPoint, such as designing slides, inserting media onto slides, or
applying animations.
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The Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Interface
The Quick Access Toolbar
✔ a small toolbar at the top left of the application window that you can
customize to contain the buttons for the functions that you use most often.
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The Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Interface
GALLERY
✔ is a collection of pre-defined formats which can be applied to
various elements in Office applications, such as the Themes
Gallery in PowerPoint.
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Themes
✔ is a set of formatting options that is applied to an entire
presentation. A Theme includes a set of colors, a set of fonts,
and a set of effects.
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Themes
✔ is a set of formatting options that is applied to an entire
presentation. A Theme includes a set of colors, a set of fonts,
and a set of effects.
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Applying a Theme to a Presentation
• Design Tab> Themes Group ( Click arrows for more themes)> Select desired theme
Changing the color of the theme
• Design Tab> Variants group>Down arrow> Colors > Select Color Scheme
Changing the Fonts of the theme
• Design Tab> Variants group>Down arrow> Fonts> Select Font
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Changing the Effects of a Theme
• Design Tab >Variants Group> Effects)> Select desired effect
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File Tab
provides a centralized location called the Microsoft Office Backstage view
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Navigation
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• The Slides pane displays all the slides available in a presentation
and helps to navigate through the presentation
• The slide preview all you to see how your text looks on each slide
• It can be helpful to use the Notes Pane to remind yourself of
speaking points for your presentation
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Changing Views
• PowerPoint 2013 allows you to see and edit your slides in several “views”.
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Changing Views
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