Basics of Microsoft Power point
In this post I am going to discuss about basics of Microsoft power point. You may have a lot of contents in a given Microsoft document. There may also detail description about some issues. Your Microsoft document may talk about political, economic, social affairs or the document might be prepared for educational purposes such as teaching guides, researches, projects or others. But what if you need present only pillars concepts from each section of concepts? So, you have to select the idea that has powerful message for a given concepts. Microsoft power point presenter is the best option to accomplish the above requirement. `
Contents supported by basics of Microsoft power point
You can incorporate the following type of presentation in Microsoft power point presenter.
- Paragraphs
- List of short description
- Figures, shapes and tables
- Smart arts and flow charts
- Audio and video files and
- Any relevant data types or contents.
Basics of Microsoft power point/Menus and tools
Power point presenter has the following main menus.
Basics of Microsoft power point/File menu
It contains an option
- To save the newly created or the edited presentation.
- To create new power point presentation.
- To open the existing presentation.
- To print the document.
- Export the presentation document to PDF and audio file.
- To share the presentation document to external devices and another functionality.
Basics of Microsoft power point/Home menu
Using home menu, you can do the following tasks.
- Add new slide.
- Change the design or layout of power point presentation.
- Change the font style.
- Change paragraph alignment, vertical spacing, indentation and any more.
- Draw shapes and figures, insert shapes.
Insert menu
The insert menu has the following functional tools that enables you to insert different contents in your presentation.
- You can insert new slide, pictures, screen shoots, photo albums.
- There is illustration tool to add shapes, Keys, smart arts and charts.
- Insert menu enables you to add different cross links using Add-ins.
- You can add zoom in and zoom out effect in your presentation.
- You can insert comments
- You can add power point arts, footer, header and text boxes.
- You can add symbols and mathematical equations,
- You can add videos, audios and you can also make screen record.
Draw menu
This menu enables you to write lines, sentences, mathematical formulas and to draw shapes or figures using pencil and marker tool. There is also eraser tool to erase the written content if necessary.
Design menu
The design menu enables you to change or select the design themes, the them colors and to add background color. The design menu also has a tool to change the size of presentation slide.
Transition menu
The name indicates the changing process of the transition effect from one page to another page. The transition menu has tools to do different transition effect (animation) when you go from one page to the next page of your presentation.
Animation tool
The animation menu has tools that enables you to make animation for each content inside a single slide or the whole slides of your presentation.
Slide show menu
This menu has a broad tool to make power point presentation.
- You can start the slide show from beginning, from the current slide or you can create your own custom slide show.
- You can make a set up for slide show.
- You can hide some slide while the presentation slide is in full screen. That means the content of a selected slide to be hidden is not displayed while the presentation slide is in slide show mode.
- You can make rehears timing. That means you can start the full screen slide show and figure out how long time is taken by each slide. The power point will record how long time you spend for each slide. Finally, if you know the timing of each slid, you can make the power point to slide automatically while you are on presentation.
Record menu
Using this menu, you can perform the following tasks.
- Live record your presentation. You can decide where the screen record will be start. This tool also helps you to clear recorded timing and narration.
- You can add screen shoot that is currently opened in your desktop.
- You can record actions on your screen and related audio before you inserting the recording in your slide.
- You can add the video from the computer or networked storage and it will be auto play when the slide show is presented.
- You can also add audio from your local file or networks. Or you can record live on the power point presentation and it will automatically play from the background.
- Record menu has an export tool to export the power point presentation in the form of videos, PDFs, Handouts and animated GIFs.
Review menu
You can do the following tasks using the tools present under review menu.
- Check spelling errors in power point slide.
- You can find the synonym or meaning for a given power point.
- Insert and delete comments.
View Menu
The view menu has tools to make different outline of the power point presentation. There is normal view, outline view, slide sorter, note page and other view alternatives.
