Introduction
Power Point Presentation program is a powerful tool that you can use if you want to create presentation that will help you deliver reports about certain topics, Introducing new products, show charts and graphs in different ways. Instead of presenting these only on hard copy why not use the program to make it livelier and interesting to the audience? There are lots of presentation programs available for you to use. Most of them have the same features and functions. An example is PowerPoint 2003 by Microsoft, under Open Office, they have presentation programs called impress and other software like Ashampoo presentation 2010
Technical Terms
Presentation: This is the type of file PowerPoint is used to create. Presentations typically have the file extension .ppt;
Slides: refers to the individual pages of a presentation which is similar to the individual pages in a print document. It may contain text, graphics, and animation.
Layout: The specific arrangement of text and images on a slide. Layouts can be made simple with simple titles and texts or more complex and include elaborate colors and images. Animation sounds, and other multimedia objects can also be included in your layout.
Design Template: Refers to the specific “look” of a slide or group of slides. A design template can be very basic - with black text on a white background - or it can be very colorful and complex.
Slide Show: The way a presentation appears when you are presenting it. When you display your slides in a slide show, the slides typically take up the whole screen, and they appear in sequence.
Placeholder: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked outlines that appear when you create a new slide. These boxes act as "placeholders" for objects such as the slide title, text, clip art, charts, and tables. Placeholders are sometimes called “text boxes.”
Sizing handles: these are small circles that appear along the edges of the selection rectangle around an object on your slide. You drag a sizing handle to change the shape or size of an object. To maintain the proportions of an object while resizing, simply drag a corner handle.
View: This is used feature in MS PowerPoint enable the user to view the presentation in different manner. Normal view, Slide sorter view, and Slide show view are the three main views of Microsoft PowerPoint. Normal view is the main editing view. Slide sorter view is an exclusive view of your slides in thumbnail form, helpful for rearranging the order of your slides. Slide show view takes up the full computer screen, like an actual slide show presentation. In this full-screen view, you see your presentation the way your audience will.
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Creating New Presentation
Creating New Presentation Using Template
Saving Presentation
Entering Text
