Power Point Beginner Appliations

Getting Started with Power Point/Opening Power Point, Design Templates, Screen Layouts, and Views

Open Power Point and you will be prompted by a dialog box with four choices. Each of these options are explained on this page. If Power Point is already open or this box does not appear, select File, then New from the menu bar.

• Click the Start button.
• Select Program, and then select Microsoft PowerPoint.

• At the new Power Point dialog box, you will be prompted to make a choice of four options.

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AutoContent Wizard

The AutoContent Wizard provides templates and ideas for a variety of presentation types. Page through the wizard by clicking the Next button on the bottom of each page after making necessary choices.

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Design Template

Power Point provides many templates with different backgrounds and text formatting to begin your presentation.

• Preview each design by highlighting the template name on the list.
• Press OK after you have chosen the design.

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Open an Existing Presentation

Select this option to open a Power Point presentation that already exists.

• Select the folder the file is located in from the Look in: drop-down menu and highlight the file on the list.
• Click Open to open the presentation.

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AutoLayout

After selecting the presentation type, you will be prompted to choose the layout of the new slide. These layouts include bulleted lists, graphs, and/or images.

• Click on each thumbnail image and a description will be printed in the message box.
• Highlight the layout you want and click OK.

Pre-Designed Slide Layouts (Left to Right)

• Title Slide
• Bulleted List
• Two Column Text Table
• Text & Chart
• Chart & Text
• Organizational Chart
• Chart Text & Clip Art
• Clip Art & Text
• Title Only
• Blank Slide

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Power Point Screen Layout

There are different views within Microsoft PowerPoint that allow you to look at your presentation from different perspectives.

• Switches to normal view, where you can work on one slide at a time or organize the structure of all the slides in your presentation.
• Switches to outline view, where you can work with the structure of your file in outline form. Work in outline view when you need to organize the structure of your file.
• Switches to slide view, where you can work on one slide at a time.
• Displays miniature versions of all slides in a presentation, complete with text and graphics. In slide sorter view, you can reorder slides, add transitions, and animation effects. You can also set the timings for electronic slide shows.
• Runs your slide show in a full screen, beginning with the current slide if you are in slide view or the selected slide if you are in slide sorter view. If you simply want to view your show from the first slide:
  • Click Slide Show at the top of the screen
  • Select View Show

The Power Point screen layout in Normal View:

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Views

Power Point gives you four screen layouts for constructing your presentation in addition to the Slide Show. You can select the page view by clicking the buttons just above the formatting toolbar and the bottom of the page.

Normal View -This screen is split into three sections showing the presentation outline on the left, the slide in the main window, and notes at the bottom.	Slide View The slide view displays each slide on the screen and is helpful for adding images, formatting text, and adding background styles.
Outline View - The presentation outline is displayed on the majority of the screen with small windows for the slide and notes. This view is recommended for editing text.	Slide Sorter View - A small image of each slide is displayed in Slide Sorter view. Slides can easily be ordered and sorted from this screen.

Click the Slide Show button to view the full-screen slide show.

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Viewing The Slide Show

You can view your slide show by any of the following ways:

• Click Slide Show at the lower left of the PowerPoint window.
• On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.
• On the View menu, click Slide Show.
• Press F5 on the keyboard.