Power Point 2007
Powerpoint is a presentation aid creation software from Microsoft Office. A presentation is an activity through which conveying information in attractive, understandable or efficient manner. Default file name of powerpoint is presentation and extension is .pptx.
A Powerpoint presentation can have many slides. Slide is the electronic page or workarea into which content can be placed. Powerpoint workarea is free workare where we can place any object and modify them independent of other objects.
Different views of Presentation:
Normal: This is the default working view in which we can see all the slides in the presentation as thumbnails at left side pane and the current slide in work area.
Slide Sorter: This view is generally useful to re arrange or view total slides in the presentation
Notes : This view is useful for the presenter to prepare and use notes while showing a particular slide.
Outline: this view displays the content of the presentation in outline or hierarchical view
Slide Show: this is used to show the slides of the presentation full screen.
Every presentation opens with a single slide with title layout and in normal view. A layout is a model that is guiding how to place or design a particular slide with some virtual elements. The elements are called virtual because those are not actual objects to be printed or shown on screen.
The layout elements can be used or come into birth by editing them. You can also move, resize or remove the layout elements. We can have some layout elements and some desired elements on the slide. Even we can change entire layout.
Change the layout for the current slide:
Select the slide–>Home Tab–>Slides Group–>Layout button
Select desired layout
We can also select layout at the time of new slide creation.
Inserting new Slide
Home tab–>slides group–>new slide–>select layout
(or)
Ctrl+M
Duplicate a slide
Right click on current slide–>duplicate
(or)
Ctrl+D
Delete a Slide
Home tab–>slides group–>delete
Selecting a Slide Design or Theme
design tab–>themes group
Applying background or theme for selected/all slides
Right click on a theme/color–>select apply to current slide/all
Modify/Delete existing content applied from selected layout
Click inside an object to add content/text
Click on the border of the object to select
Drag to move the object
Use resize handles to resize
Press delete key to remove object
Applying Animations for the Objects
Select an object
Animation tab–>animations group–> custom animation
Custom Animation Task pane appears
Click on Add Effects button
(Entrance/Emphasis/Exit/Motion Paths
Click Remove button to remove an effect
Click Play button to see the effect on the screen
Click Slide Show button to start slide show
Applying Slide Transitions
Animation tab–>transition to this slide group–>
Select desired transition effect
Select the speed and sound
Select when the slide to be changed and played transition from Advance slide section
Click apply to all slide to apply selected transition to all slides in the presentation
Setting Slide Show
Slide show tab–>Setup group–>Setup slide Show
Use recorded Timings to automatically play slide show
Slide show tab–>Setup group–>Rehearse timings
Changing slides automatically with uniform timings
Animations Tab–>Transitions to this slide group–>Advanced slide