Preliminary Issues :
PowerPoint is an application that allows the creation of unified electronic pages in a single file that can contain nume.PPT:
- Pages (slides) presentation;
- Conduct, presentation pages, invisible to the public annotation;
- Modification of existing pages in a presentation;
- Adding new pages or entering text, images, clipart, Excel charts, Word tables or other objects;
- Insertion of artistic images, using a variety of drawing tools in PowerPoint;
- Sound effects and animation, special effects (transitions from one page to another, the texts that appear in all direction, etc.)..
Plan presentation:
The program offers three Power Point presentations:
- Presentation consists of electronic pages;
- Use of overhead slides;
- Use of slides.
There are three ways to build a presentation:
2.1. Use the WIZARD AutoContent
2.2. Working in Outline mode display 
2.3. Working in display mode SLIDE
2.1. To launch the Wizard choose NEW AutoContent Office Documents from the Start menu or Start a New Document from the shortcut bar office. Presentations page in Castle Keep NEW dialog. Launch instrument is a double click on AutoContent Wizard which opens the following screens:
A welcome screen, click Next to carry.
Screen 2 requires the first page identifying information (author name, topic presentation), is made click Next.
3 requires the presentation type selection screen, there are six options and a button built OTHER (other) issue presented is emerging – the colors, backgrounds, fonts.
Screen four asks to specify the style used for display and presentation duration
Screen 5 allows the selection of the presentation: black and white film, color film, screen or slide presentations, and printing flyers for the public.
The screen is made 6 Click Finish and the screen will show presentation of the project.
You can move from page to page using SLIDE NEXT (next page) and PREVIOUS SLIDE (previous page).
May be linked or embedded chart made with Microsoft Excel or Graph and tables made in Word.
View pages can be done in four ways:
- The display slide (page) allows editing, adding and deleting pages immediately visualize the effect of these changes;
- Outline display mode (whole) allows focus on content presentation, irrespective of graphic objects;
- The display Slide Sorter (sorting pages) to view at a time of all the pages of a presentation for an election page that will eventually be presenting;
- NOTES display mode pages (pages with notes) allow for annotation pages for presentation, the audience development of leaflets containing more detailed information than those displayed in one page.
Application window and window environment PowerPoint document
Launch application opens a window application (a Power Point map) and a document window (a Power Point presentation in the map) with the following composition.
Designing a presentation :
The “Power Point” allows you to create presentations containing information in summary form of text, diagrams, pictures, graphics on the subject.
The presentation is a file consisting of slides (pages) in succession.
To build slides to choose a scheme with the instrument AUTO layouts.
Choose a layout of the proposed options by selecting from the top menu bar and then New Slide INSERT option. Existence a variety of models: some with text boxes placed in different positions, other places defined graphics or other objects. The program allows further optimization of their positions depending on the designer desire.
The application offers the possibility of changing the appearance of presentation: form, color, type of transition from one image to another, different layout, different setting, another appearance by selecting the top menu option and Presentation FORMAT temple or button directly Temple. Types of templates (over 100) are offered in two categories: black and white and color, located in a directory Power Point Temple. More: all constructed presentation can be saved and then used the temple.
After you create slides, consisting of several pages, it is possible to define the sequence, the length of an image display, etc. order.
Creating a presentation
PowerPoint entry opens a dialog box containing the following:
- Auto Content Wizard: A Wizard (Magician) is a program that assists the creation of presentation, helping to organize your presentation according to scheme, established;
- Pick a Look Wizard: determining the appearance of presentation;
- Template: help choosing décor, the template you want;
- Blank Presentation: start by opening a spreadsheet (SLIDE) all amounts of white color scheme, fonts and other design elements default to be any further redefined.
- Open an Existing Presentation: open a saved already, nume.PPT form for changes.
You can open even while working with a new presentation with Power Point and NEW FILE top menu that allows you to use the current presentation format.
You can open multiple presentations simultaneously. The current work is that ‘the top of the window, others are listed and can be activated by using the WINDOW from the top menu bar.
Save a presentation
Presentations are saved normally developed or online at End of presentation or leaving the current application.
Cannot be saved unless the files are active.
Presentations by default are saved as files or as files nume.PPT pictures: *. WMF Windows Metafile – so they can be exported to Word or other applications, such as Scrapbook file (Macintosh).
To save existing fonts on your computer and, for export to other computer file and not contained, use the option of saving a presentation with embedded fonts.
At first rescue appears in the File Name box type the name is.
To save the presentation to another disk on another directory or under a different name using Save As option.
Searching for a presentation:
1. From the File menu select OPEN
Box appears “Open dialogue box
2. Select FIND FILE button
Search box appears the Search dialog box
3. In the File Name box type the name you are searching.
Closing a presentation:
1. – From the File menu or choose CLOSE
- Click the mouse button x in the top right of the window presented, or – CTRL + F4.
If you make changes, PowerPoint asks if you want to save.
2. Press (click)
° YES to save
° No to close the file without saving the latest changes,
° Cancel to abandon the closure.
Introduction Summary Information
You can enter and retain summary information dialog box SUMMARY INFO, so as to record the subject and other information that will help retrieve the presentation.
1. SUMMARY INFO chooses the File menu.
2. Enter information in the dialog box with the same name:
- Name presentation;
- Subject, a summary of the presentation;
- Author;
- KEYWORDS type in words you associate presentation to help you to find later (FIND), titles, etc..
- Comments they feel close to the subject presentation.
3. Choose OK.
Creating a default presentation (Default) :
When you create a presentation that includes the settings and styles that you use constantly, you can save as default, so you access it whenever you choose Blank Presentation.
1. Open the presentation that you want to define as default.
2. Choose Save As from the File menu in PowerPoint director.
3. DEFAULT.PPT types the file name.
4. Choose OK.
Now your presentation is the new default presentation.
You’re absolutely right that there are wizards for creating decks of slides for PowerPoint but speaking as a professional presentation skills trainer and presentation designer I’d STONGLY urge people not to do that. It results in the worse kinds of presentation possible.
To be honest, I’d not even recommend PowerPoint (we have a copy only to make sure that the files we create in Keynote – which is a hugely superior product – are compatible with PowerPoint for when we send things to clients.
Simon