Objectives
This tutorial is designed for people who are new to PowerPoint. You will learn how to:
- Start PowerPoint
- Work with text, slides, and layouts
- Work with templates and images
- Use different views and printing options
- Put your presentation on the World Wide Web
Definitions
Presentation: The primary type of file PowerPoint is
used to create. Presentations typically have the file extension .ppt; however, you can also save PowerPoint presentations as Adobe Acrobat documents
with the file extension .pdf. Finally, you can save your presentation
as a web page, with the file extension .html or .htm.
Slides: Individual parts of a presentation. Slides are
similar to the individual pages in a print document, and can contain text,
graphics, and animation.
Layout: The specific arrangement of text and images on
a slide. Layouts can be very simple, consisting of simple titles and text,
or they can be more complex and include elaborate colors and images. You
can also include animation, sounds, and other multimedia objects in your
layout.
Design Template: 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. Typically,
PowerPoint presentations have the same design template for all slides,
although it is possible to select a different design template for each
slide. Later, I’ll show you how to select different design templates.
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. We’ll
introduce some other terms later in this presentation.
Placeholder: Boxes with dotted 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: Square handles that appear along the
edges of a selected object. 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.
