Microsoft PowerPoint
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Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation graphics program.
PowerPoint
Views
All of
these views
can be found
and selected
in the VIEW menu
or via the
icons:
- NORMAL: This
is the
standard
3-pane
view for
PowerPoint.
- OUTLINE: Outline
view is
most useful
in long
presentations
with a
lot of
information
and helps
organize
topics
by including
the title
bar information
in the
outline.
In this
view you
can also
drag and
drop slides
to quickly
reorganize
presentations.
- SLIDE: This
view is
best used
when you
are only
working
within
a single
slide.
- SLIDE
SORTER: This
view that
enables
you to
organize
slides
quickly.
Numbered
thumbnails
of each
slide
appear
in this
view.
- SLIDE
SHOW: Is
for presentation
onscreen.
- NOTES: The
presenter
can include
notes which
appear
on pages
under slides.
In addition,
hard copies
of the
slide presentations
can be
printed
with blank
note lines
for those
who want
to take
notes during
a presentation.
- HANDOUTS: Like
the Notes
view, the
Handouts
view is
useful
for audience
members.
You can
choose
to include
several
slides
per page
for handouts.
- MASTER: This
view creates
a template
for all
slides/notes/handouts
in a presentation
will follow.
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Graphics:
There are two basic types of graphics that you can use to enhance your PowerPoint
presentations: drawing objects and pictures. Drawing objects
include AutoShapes, curves, lines, freeforms, and WordArt drawing objects (from
the Drawing toolbar).
Pictures are graphics that were created from another file. They
include bitmaps, scanned pictures and photographs, and clip art. You can change
and enhance pictures by using the options under Picture on the Formatting Palette
and a limited number of options on the Drawing toolbar.
You can create and insert graphs (charts) into presentations using Microsoft
Graph (Insert: Chart) or Microsoft Excel (Insert:
Chart: File: Import). A chart is linked to the data stored in the Graph
datasheet or Excel worksheet and is updated automatically when you change
the
data. You can also double-click a chart to edit the data linked to it.
Animations:
In PowerPoint you can animate how text and objects enter and exit a slide.
You can set text to appear by the letter, by the word, or a paragraph at a time.
You can also have graphic images appear progressively on your slide. You can
change the effects, order and timing, and other options for each animated item
on a slide.
You can also animate the bars, grid, and other elements of charts in PowerPoint.
Animations are not useful for handouts or notes but can be a valuable way of
presenting information on screen (se the examples above).
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