Microsoft PowerPoint

INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

MS PowerPoint is powerful presentation software, used to create professional quality presentations. These can be reproduced on the Transparency, Paper, slide, Photo print etc. This allows you to easily publish presentations on the Internet. In Microsoft PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". The Microsoft PowerPoint helps you to create and organize presentations by assisting in developing presentation outlines and selecting various slide layouts. It   is the component of Microsoft Office that is used to create professional quality presentations. Teachers, professors, politicians, and sales representatives make presentations to sell their concepts. They use graphics, text, movies, sounds, and the Internet to share information on any topic.

Using PowerPoint templates, you can quickly and easily create presentations for many purposes, including lectures, research reports, meeting handouts and agendas templates, you can quickly and easily create presentations for many purposes, including lectures, research reports, meeting handouts and agendas. A MS Power Point presentation is a collection of your slides, handouts, speaker’s notes etc, and all these are kept in a single file called ‘Presentation Files’, with an extension .PPT. As you create slides, you are creating a presentation that you design. You can give your presentation any look and format.

FEATURES OF MICROSOFT POWER POINT

1. Templates - Define what your text will look like and where it will appear, and they offer a complete color scheme to make your presentation more attractive.

2. Wizards - tools that are incorporated into several Microsoft applications to help you accomplish specific tasks. Wizards are PowerPoint’s way of making it easy for you to quickly and efficiently create professional looking presentations.

3. Power Point Central- connects you with the resources like the templates, sounds and the animation clips on the CD-ROM and the sites on the Internet.

4. Slide Finder- allows the previewing and the insertion of slides from the other presentations.

5. Quick Start Tutorial – helps to introduce the features of Power Point.

6. Graphs-improved charting module for the Power Point has the following features:

(a) ADDITIONAL CHART TYPES- MS-POWER POINT gives new chart types such as bubble, pie of pie and the bar of pie . It also offers additional 3-D and 2-D chart types such as cylinder, pyramid and cone.

(b) CHART DATA TABLES-enhances the chart by adding explanatory details by attaching the data table that contains the numbers represented diagrammatically.

 (c) ROTATED TEXTS ON THE CHART AXES-to display all the necessary data proportionately for easier viewing, the fonts can be scaled and the text rotated along the chart axes.

(d) PICTURE, TEXT AND GRADIENT FILLS- to graphically represent data, you can fill the chart elements such as the bars, areas and the surfaces with texture, imported pictures or gradient fills.

7. Multiple Undo Feature-displays an Undo List on the standard tool bar from which you can select the change you want to reverse.

8. Active Web service is used – shared by all Microsoft Office programs- to browse rich webs of the presentations and documents on the local computer, any server, an Intranet or the Web.

Power Point has a set of built in buttons for the actions such as Forward, Back, Home, Help, Information, sound and Movie. By clicking on any of these buttons another program can be started.

9. CD-Audio tracks can be played during the presentation.

10. Auto Content Wizard- guides user to pick from the set of pre-built templates. It also provides ideas and the starter text for the presentations.

11. Summary slide-is used to create a summary slide based on the titles of the slides created.

12. Office Art is a drawing tool shared by Microsoft Office programs and provides:

(a) AutoShapes-includes six new auto shapes.

(b) Bezier Curves-used to draw exact curves with point positions.

(c) Transparent Background- inserts a bit map as a part of design of the slides.

13. Animation Effects and Multimedia capabilities include-

(a) Custom Animation-an easier way to define and preview animated effects.

(b) Voice narration-to add a presenter’s voice to the self-running documentation.

(c) Music tracks- to add background music and the sound effects to the presentations.

(d) Animated templates- animation effects can be added to the slide master and will be automatically added when the slides are created.

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