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The Foundation of PowerPoint Presentations

The document provides a comprehensive guide on using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, covering essential functions such as opening, saving, and creating presentations, as well as inserting images, tables, and charts. It details navigation through the PowerPoint Ribbon and includes instructions for formatting text, adding transitions, and printing handouts. The content is structured to assist users in effectively utilizing the software's features for creating presentations.

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The Foundation of PowerPoint Presentations

The document provides a comprehensive guide on using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, covering essential functions such as opening, saving, and creating presentations, as well as inserting images, tables, and charts. It details navigation through the PowerPoint Ribbon and includes instructions for formatting text, adding transitions, and printing handouts. The content is structured to assist users in effectively utilizing the software's features for creating presentations.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for

Microsoft Windows

JESSICA COTE & PETE HANKE

2011

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS
What is PowerPoint?

🞆 PowerPoint is a closed source commercial presentation program


developed by Microsoft.
The Content We Will Cover

⚫ Open a Presentation
⚫ Open a New Presentation
⚫ Save a Slide Show
⚫ Create a New Slide
⚫ Add Slides
⚫ Insert Pictures
⚫ Insert Clip Art
⚫ Format Pictures
⚫ View Outline
⚫ Print Handouts
The Content We Will Cover Con’d
⚫ Format Fonts
⚫ Header and Footer
⚫ Hyperlinks
⚫ Tables
⚫ Charts
⚫ Slide Themes
⚫ Slide Transitions
⚫ Rearrange Slides
⚫ Preview Presentations
⚫ View Outline
⚫ Print Handouts
PowerPoint Ribbon

🞆 During this presentation, we will refer to the PowerPoint “Ribbon” in


terms of navigating the program.
🞆 The Ribbon is the strip of buttons across the top of the main window.
🞆 Users can access anything the program has to offer through the
Ribbon.
Create a New Presentation

🞆 Select “File” then


“New”
🞆 Shortcut: Hold the
Control button, then
press ‘N’ for “New”
Open an Existing Presentation

🞆 Select “File” then


“Open”
🞆 Shortcut: Hold the
Control button, then
press ‘O’ for “Open”
Saving a Presentation

🞆 Select “File” then “Save


As”
🞆 Shortcut: Press f12 to
Save the file with a new
name
Add a Slide

🞆 Go to the “Home”
ribbon and select the
“New Slide” button
🞆 Select the Slide Pane
and press “Enter”
Insert Pictures from Files

🞆 Go to the “Insert”
ribbon then select
“Picture”
🞆 Locate the image file
from the folder to
where it is saved.
🞆 Select “Insert” from the
dialog box.
Insert Clip Art
🞆 Go to the “Insert” ribbon then select “Clip Art”
🞆 Enter search terms in Clip Art search pane on the right and select
image.
Format Pictures
🞆 To resize the image, click on the picture to surround the image with a
blue box.
🞆 Drag the corner dot away from the center to make it larger and
toward the center to make it smaller.
Format Fonts

🞆 Go to the “Home”
ribbon then make
changes to the font size
and style of the text.
🞆 This Home tab also
allows you to change all
aspects of the font size
and style.
Insert a Header and Footer

🞆 Go to “Insert” then “Header and Footer”


🞆 This dialog box allows you to add a date and time on the slide.
Insert a Hyperlink

🞆 Go to the “Insert”
ribbon then hover over
“Links” then select
“Hyperlink”
🞆 Copy and Paste the Link
from the website into
the “Link” box.
Insert Tables

🞆 Go to the “Insert”
ribbon then select
“Table”
🞆 Move the mouse over
the table illustration to
select the size of the
table you would like to
use.
Insert Charts

🞆 Go to the “Insert”
ribbon then select the
“Chart” button.
🞆 Option to choose from
Area, Bar, Line, Pie and
several other Chart
Options.
Add a Slide Theme from Gallery

🞆 Go to the “Design” ribbon


🞆 Select a design theme from the Theme toolbar.
Slide Transitions

🞆 Go to the “Transitions” ribbon


🞆 Select desired Transition from toolbar
Rearrange Slides

🞆 To move a slide, click on the slide thumbnail in the


left column
🞆 Drag and drop the slide at the desired location.
🞆 To move consecutive slides at one time, click and
hold the Shift key as you select the slides you want
to move.
🞆 Drag and drop the slides at the desired location.
Preview a Presentation

🞆 Go to the “Slide Show” ribbon


🞆 Select the point in the slide show that you would like
to begin viewing.
🞆 From beginning
🞆 From current slide
🞆 The shortcut key is F5
View Slides vs. Outlines

🞆 The default view is


Slides
🞆 The second option is
Outline view to show
the slide show as
outline notes
Print Handouts

🞆 Select “File” then select


“Print”
🞆 A dialog box appears
that allows you to
change the printer and
select the number of
copies to be printed.
🞆 You can also select to
print handouts of the
slideshow.

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