Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint

Introduction to Microsoft
PowerPoint

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Lesson 1 Introduction to PowerPoint

Understanding Presentations and Slides; Creating a New Presentation
: Summary; Q&A

Lesson 2 - Editing and Arranging Your Presentations

Getting Acquainted with PowerPoint's Views

Using the Outline

Working on the Slide

Saving and Printing Your Work

Summary

Q&A

Lesson 3 - PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features

Changing Your Entire Presentation's Design; Changing a Single Slide's Design; Editing Individual Slides; Adding Art; Ordering Presentations "To Go"
: Summary; Q&A

Lesson 4 - Animating Your Presentations

Using PowerPoint's Slide Show; Voice Narration; To Do: Use Action Buttons; Introducing Animation Schemes
: Summary; Q&A

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers, it is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology: according to its vendor, Microsoft Corporation, some 30 million presentations are made with PowerPoint every day.

In Microsoft PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device which has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Slides can be printed, or (more usually) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. Transitions between slides can be animated in a variety of ways, as can the emergence of elements on a slide itself. The overall design of a presentation can be controlled with a master slide; and the overall structure, extending to the text on each slide, can be edited using a primitive outliner. Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats : the default .ppt (presentation), .pot (template) or .pps (PowerPoint Show).

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