PowerPoint Basics / Menus,Toolbars, Sections & Scrolling
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First let's go through all of the menus. I am just going to go through them kind of briefly. I am not going to get into too much detail with some of the features simply because when we get to that actual topic I will thoroughly explain it. Under the file menu are alot of the standard features that you've seen in many other programs. You can create a new presentation, open a presentation, close a presentation, save it - yes you can save it as a web page, kinda cool. Pack and go means that you can, if you want to, show your presentation and you are taking your presentation to a computer that does not have Powerpoint - you can save it as a pack and go which means that, Powerpoint will not only save the presentation, but it will save everything needed to run that presentation on a computer that doesn't have Powerpoint. If you decide to use your presentation as a web page you can preview it, page setup or if you want to printout your presentation, how do want everything to look on the printout, you can print it. You can actually send your presentation to - well let's do it this way. You can e-mail it, you can send it to Word and that sort of thing. Certain properties of a presentation - the last four presentations that you had open and you can exit out of the program. Under Edit you're undo, redo, cut, copy, and paste, and you can select all of text or something to that effect. You can delete a slide, perform a find and replace, in other words you can search your presentation for text or something to that effect. Under view - all of the different ways that you can view your presentation, and also you can view rulers if you want, all of the tool bars that you actually have access to throughout Powerpoint are here as well. Under insert: you can insert slides; put slide numbers on your slide; insert the date and time; you can bring in slides from other files; you can insert pictures; and movies; and sounds; and charts; and tables and all sorts of fun stuff. Under format: you can format the text; you can format how the slides look; the color schemes; the backgrounds - those design templates I was talking about. Under tools you can check the spelling. Auto correct a great feature (of course I will leave you in suspense for now), but trust me it's a wonderful feature. These online collaborations, meeting minder options here, they have to do with Microsoft Outlook. I will talk a little bit about that later on. Under slide show: you can view your presentation; you can actually record narration; rehearse timing means that you can set your presentation to run by itself; and some options for setting up your presentation; animation features - all sorts of fun stuff. Under window: all of the presentations that you currently have open because you can have more than one presentation open; and there will be a check mark beside the one that you are actually working on; and of course help which we will get to. The first thing I want you to do before we do any thing else, please note when you click on any one of these menus not everything is displayed right away. If you want everything to display you have to wait a moment, and eventually it pops-up - eventually. And you can also click on these double arrows to display the rest of the menu options. That's because Office-2000 hides certain menu options that it thinks you will not use very often. I find this slightly annoying, so I am going to show you how to turn it off. Another thing I am going to show you how to turn off - you have two tool bars here, I know it's kinda hard to see them. In most programs or I should say most Microsoft programs, you have 2 tool bars: you have a standard tool bar (which is this tool bar right here), opening; closing; saving; printing; that sort of thing. And over here, which is kind of hidden, you have a formatting tool bar for things like text and graphics. Well you can't see it, but you will. If you go to tools in the menu bar and choose customize - what I want you to do is go to the options tab right here, remove the check from "standard and formatting tool bar share one row", and remove the check from "menu show recently used commands first", and close. Now we see both of our tool bars very easily and all of our menu items are being displayed. Next I am going to talk about these tool bars. The next part of the window I want to go through are these three sections. This main section as you can see is simply the slide you are working on. To the left you have a list of all of the slides that you are working on, and I can actually scroll down this list. And it is going to show me the title of the slide and the actual contents. This lower portion of the window, where it says click to add notes, has to do with creating note pages. If you are giving a presentation, basically who ever is viewing the presentation is just seeing your slides, and most slides simply have a list of points on it. You may want to actually have a little notes page, in other words what it actually is that you want to talk about - and that's what this notes window is referring to. At the very bottom you are going to see (see where it says outline) and notice my cursor is blinking in the left hand portion of the window. This is actually considered the outline portion or kind of like the outline view of your presentation. And that is exactly what it is really. You have your list of slides and what's on them. Watch what happens when I click on the main portion of the window, it becomes slide 1 of 5. So if I click over here it says outline - notice down here on the status bar. If I click in the main portion of the window it becomes slide 1 of 5, and if I click below it becomes slide note. Also notice to the right, see where it says sunny days, that is the design template that I used to create this presentation.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 |
| Author: | Angie Rawling/NMG |
| SKU: | 33125 |
| ISBN: | 1889347930 |
| Release Date: | 2000-03-29 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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