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    This document provides an introduction to the PowerPoint workspace and slide views. It defines key PowerPoint terms like presentations, slides, layouts, and placeholders. It describes the main PowerPoint window which includes the title bar, menu bar, toolbars, and panes for slides, notes, and tasks. It explains the three main slide views: Normal view for editing, Slide Sorter view to rearrange slides, and Slide Show view for presentations. It also covers how to navigate between slides using buttons, scroll bars, and keyboard shortcuts.

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    This document provides an introduction to the PowerPoint workspace and slide views. It defines key PowerPoint terms like presentations, slides, layouts, and placeholders. It describes the main PowerPoint window which includes the title bar, menu bar, toolbars, and panes for slides, notes, and tasks. It explains the three main slide views: Normal view for editing, Slide Sorter view to rearrange slides, and Slide Show view for presentations. It also covers how to navigate between slides using buttons, scroll bars, and keyboard shortcuts.

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    This document provides an introduction to the PowerPoint workspace and slide views. It defines key PowerPoint terms like presentations, slides, layouts, and placeholders. It describes the main PowerPoint window which includes the title bar, menu bar, toolbars, and panes for slides, notes, and tasks. It explains the three main slide views: Normal view for editing, Slide Sorter view to rearrange slides, and Slide Show view for presentations. It also covers how to navigate between slides using buttons, scroll bars, and keyboard shortcuts.

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    Introduction to PowerPoint 2003

    Definitions:
    Presentation: The primary type of file PowerPoint is used to create. Presentation s typically have the file extension ppt. : 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 o f 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. View: Microsoft PowerPoint has three main views: normal view, slide sorter view, and slide show view. Normal view is the main editing view. Slide sorter view is an exclusive view of your slides in thumbnail form, helpful for rearranging order of your slides. Slide show view takes up the full computer screen, like an actual slide show presentation. De sign 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 Slide Show: The way a presentation appears when you are p resenting it. When you display your slides in a slideshow, the slides typically take up the whole screen, and they appear in sequence. Place holder: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked outlines that app ear 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 textboxes. Sizing handles : Small circles that appear along the edges of the selection rectangle around an object on your slide. You d rag 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.

    Starting PowerPoint
    Step 1 To start PowerPoint, go to the Start menu and select Progra ms ->Microsoft Office ->Power Point. Step 2 PowerPoint opens in Normal view. In normal view, you will see the following: A blank slide in the center of the window. Off to the left, a Slides pane that will display a thumbnail sketch of all the slides in your presentation, in sequence. Off to the right, a Task pane that will display the following options : i. Open, to open a pre - existing presentation. ii. Create a new presentation, to start a new presentation. Step 3

    Step 4

    Click "Create a new presentation" to start a new presentation. : Click Blank presentation to create a presentation from scratch. Your other options here are From

    design template, From AutoContent wizard and From existing presentation. Step 5 : Click on a desired layout from the choices that appear in the task pane.

    Layouts, Text, and Slides


    To apply a layout to your new slide

    Step 1: Scroll through the available layouts in the Slide Layout task pane off to the right. Step 2: Click on the layout you would like to apply to your slides. NOTE: You may change the layout of all or some of your slides at any point while working on your presentation. To apply a layout to only certain slides, select the slides you want in the slide pane on the left, and then go to the task pane on the right. Click the downward arrow button on the right side of the layout you want in the task pane on the right. You will get a menu that lets you choose "apply to selected slides

    PowerPoint Tutorial: The PowerPoint Workspace


    This PowerPoint Workspace tutorial will familiarize you with the PowerPoint workspace.

    In this tutorial, you'll familiarize yourself with the PowerPoint work space. When PowerPoint opens, you see the familiar user workspace. By default PowerPoint launches with various menus and work panes available as seen in the screen shots below.

    Getting Started with the PowerPoint Workspace


    At the top you'll see the Title Bar, Menu Bar, Standard Toolbar, and Formatting Toolbar. Depending on how your system is set up, you might also see the Drawing Toolbar or other toolbars visible. Toolbars can be turned on or off depending on your need and frequency of use. Outline/Slides Pane - shows tabs that you use to alternate between seeing an outline of your slide text (Outline Tab) and seeing the slides displayed as thumbnails (Slides Tab) The Slide Pane - shows the slide selected in the Outline/Slides pane as it will appear in the presentation. This is where you will do most of your editing. The Task Pane - opens each time you start PowerPoint. If you don't want the Task Pane to appear when you start the program, click Options on the Tools Menu, click the View Tab, clear the "Startup Task Pane" check box, and click OK.

    Watch the Getting Started with PowerPoint Flash Tutorial (6:32)

    The other parts of the PowerPoint workspace that may be available on your screen include the Outline/Slides Pane in Outline view, the Notes Pane which is below the Slide Pane, the View Buttons which determine options for yow you view your presentation while you're working on it, and the Drawing Tool Bar

    The Notes Pane - The Notes Pane provides a place for entering speaker notes. It's also a good place to write scripts if you're going to be narrating your slide presentation. Some third party add-ons for PowerPoint such as Breeze or Articulate include the ability to display scripts from the Notes Pane during voice over recording. View Buttons - The lower left corner of the presentation window are view buttons that enable you to look at your presentation in different ways. By default, PowerPoint open the presentation in Normal View, the main view used to design and edit presentations

    PowerPoint Slide Views


    PowerPoint slide views that can be used when designing and editing your presentation. In the lower left corner of the presentation window are the slide view buttons. Clicking on each will display your slides in a different way. You can switch from one view to another by using the commands in the View Menu or by clicking the View Buttons in the lower left corner of the presentation window.

    PowerPoint Slide Views: The Normal View


    In Normal view, you can work with a presentation in three ways: as a text outline by clicking on the Outline Tab in the Outling/Slides Pane; as a set of miniature slides or thumbnails in the

    Slides View of the Outline/Slides Pane; or as a Slide in the Slide Pane. You can also work on notes in the Notes View.

    PowerPoint Slide Views: Slide Sorter View


    In Slide Sorter view, you can preview your entire presentation as thumbnails. It's very much like one would view photographic slides on a light board or sorter. You can easily rearrange slides and put them in any order by clicking and dragging the thumbnail to a new position. If titles are hard to read in this view, you can hide the slide formatting by holding down the Alt Key and the mouse button.

    You can see more of the slides in the Slide Sorter view by changing the Zoom Factor in the Zoom drop-down window.

    PowerPoint Slide Views: Notes view


    In Notes View, you can add speaker notes to each slide in the presentation. You can also add notes in the Notes Pane in Normal View, but if you want to add graphics, you must do that in the Notes View.

    PowerPoint Slide Views: Slide Show View


    The last button on the Slide View Buttons area is the Slide Show View button. Clicking on that slide view button fills your monitor with the current slide. This is how the slide would be viewed when giving the presentation.

    Browsing Through the Slides


    You can browse through the slides in a presentation by in three ways. You can click the scroll arrows at the top and bottom of the scroll bars or you can Click and Drag the scroll box to move to a specific slide. To view previous or next slides in the presentation, you can use the Previous Slide or Next Slide Buttons located at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar. You can also press the Page Up or Page Down key to scroll slide by slide.

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