When you go to a tab, the ribbon for that tab opens and you can see the tools and functions that were formerly in menus and toolbars in earlier versions of PowerPoint. When you see a feature with an arrow , you can click it to get more information or options. Click those to open the dialog box related to that function — the launcher on the Font group, for example, opens the Font box, where you set effects such as strikethrough, superscript, or character spacing.
The ribbon tabs group tools and features together based on their purpose. For example, to make your slides look better, look for options on the Design tab.
The tools that you use to animate things on your slide would be on the Animations tab. The Home tab holds the Cut and Paste features, Font and Paragraph options, and what you need to add and organize slides. Click Insert to add something to a slide. This includes pictures, shapes, charts, links, text boxes, video and more. On the Design tab, you can add a theme or color scheme, or format the slide background. Set up how your slides change from one to the next on the Transitions tab.
Find a gallery of the possible transitions in the Transition to This Slide group — click More at the side of the gallery to see all of them. Use the Animations tab to choreograph the movement of things on your slides. Note that you can see many possible animations in the gallery in the Animation group, and see more of them by clicking More. On the Slide Show tab, set up the way that you want to show your presentation to others. The Review tab lets you add comments, run spell-check, or compare one presentation with another such as an earlier version.
Views allow you to look at your presentation in different ways, depending on where you are in the creation or delivery process. At one end of the ribbon is the File tab, which you use for the behind-the-scenes stuff you do with a file, such as opening, saving, sharing, exporting, printing and managing your presentation.
This document discusses keyboard shortcuts which are specific to PowerPoint For more information about commonly used shortcuts, refer to Office Keyboard Shortcuts. You may need to create new slides frequently as you are making your PowerPoint presentation. This keyboard shortcut can help speed up the process of opening and choosing new slides.
For more information about using shortcuts to navigate the command tabs, refer to Office Keyboard Shortcuts. Press [ H ] » [ L ] A palette of slide layouts appears. To select the appropriate slide layout, press the [ Up ], [ Down ], [ Left ], or [ Right ] arrow keys.
Navigating within slides means you will be moving through all the objects within a single slide using key commands. The New Presentation window disappears. If you clicked Download, then a Downloading Template message flashes briefly on the screen.
In the left side of the New Presentation window, click Installed Templates. Click a template to select it. A larger version of the template appears in the preview area the right side of the New Presentation window. The New Presentation window disappears, and you see a new presentation file based on the template you selected. Figure shows you an example. Instead of clicking a template and then clicking Create, you can save a step by simply double-clicking the template.
Each time you create your own template Section 1. Instead, you want to follow the steps you find on Section 1. The New Presentation window vanishes, and the New Presentation dialog box shown in Figure appears.
In the New Presentation dialog box, select the template you want to use and click OK. The New Presentation dialog box disappears, and PowerPoint displays a new presentation file based on the template you selected. Because Microsoft lets its customers upload templates willy-nilly, the quantity and quality of the templates you find on its site can vary widely. Figure shows how to weed out customer-submitted templates, leaving only those designed by official Microsofties.
Template thumbnails appear in the center of the New Presentation window Figure Click a template thumbnail to select it; then click Download. In the validation message box, click Continue. Microsoft checks out your copy of PowerPoint. If it passes muster, a Downloading Template message appears briefly, after which PowerPoint displays a new presentation file based on the template you selected.
The rest of this chapter shows you how to add text and change the look of your newly created presentation. Earlier versions of PowerPoint let you customize your presentations using design templates and color schemes. Templates in PowerPoint are similar to the design templates found in pre versions.
A template is any presentation you plan to reuse. You tell PowerPoint—and remind yourself and your coworkers—that you plan to reuse it by saving it in the special template file format,. Templates typically define custom slide layouts and, in some cases, generic content. Every template has a theme. Themes in PowerPoint are more accurately referred to as Office Themes, since you can use the same.
It also describes which fonts and graphic effects to use; for example, some themes automatically add shadows to title text and blurring to the shapes you add to your slides. The alternative is to create the presentation file and then apply the theme, as described on Section 1. PowerPoint only lets you apply PowerPoint-supplied themes when you create a presentation.
On the left side of the New Presentation window, click Installed Themes. Click a theme to select it. A larger version of the theme appears in the preview area the right side of the New Presentation window. The New Presentation window disappears and you see a new presentation based on the theme you selected. Instead of clicking a theme and then clicking Create, you can save a step by simply double-clicking the theme.
To try it out, click the Office button and then, from the list of Recent Documents that appears, choose an existing document. Select the file you want to open, as described in Figure , and then click Create New. The New from Existing Presentation window disappears, and the presentation you selected appears in your PowerPoint workspace. PowerPoint gives the presentation a new, generic name PowerPoint2, PowerPoint3, and so on to remind you to rename the file before you save it.
Creating a new presentation from an old one is very similar to creating a new presentation from a template, as you saw on Section 1. The Open window gives you more options for opening an existing presentation than the New from Existing window does.
The Open window shown in Figure appears. Choose one of the following options:. Opens the selected file. Opens the presentation file, but renames it Copy 1 filename. Tells PowerPoint to fix a corrupted file before it tries to open it. No matter which approach you use to create a presentation—from scratch, from an existing presentation, from a template, or from a built-in theme—once you have a presentation, you can change how it looks in one fell swoop by changing its theme.
A theme is a collection of characteristics including colors, fonts, and graphic effects such as whether the shapes you add to your slides have drop shadows. For example, applying the built-in Deluxe theme turns your background a tasteful shade of blue and displays your title text which appears in the Corbel font in an attractively contrasting, gently shadowed shade of yellow—all thanks to the theme.
But applying themes gives you more bang for your buck in several important ways:. Using themes is quicker than changing individual settings one at a time. Applying a theme is a two-click proposition. Changing the dozen-plus settings controlled by a theme would exercise your click finger a lot more than that. Using themes helps ensure a decent-looking, readable slide.
Consistency is an important design principle: it sets the tone for your presentation and lets your audience focus on your message. When you change settings manually, you can end up with a distracting mishmash of colors and fonts on a single slide or across slides. Not so with themes. Once you apply a theme, the theme takes control of your settings. For example, if you change the subtitle color from white to black, then PowerPoint automatically adjusts the background color and other settings so that your subtitle text is still readable.
But you can also override theme settings. Section 3. Using themes lets you create a consistent look and feel across Microsoft Office-produced materials. You can use the same themes you use in PowerPoint in Word and Excel, too. When you apply the same theme to your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint slides, you end up with a consistently presented, harmonious whole. The Design ribbon appears, complete with a Theme gallery Figure Click the More icon at the bottom-right corner of the Themes section Figure Additional themes appear in the gallery, as shown in Figure Mouse over the themes in the gallery one by one.
PowerPoint applies the selected theme to all of the existing slides in your presentation, as well as all the new slides you create. For details, check out Chapter 4. See the box for advice on how much prose to add to your presentation. Knowing that, the PowerPoint designers made it easy for you to add text to your slides. The following sections show you how. Blank presentations come complete with title and subtitle placeholder text boxes. To replace the placeholder text in either of these two text boxes with your own text, simply click inside the placeholder and begin typing.
When you do, two things happen:. PowerPoint displays the Drawing Tools Format tab and, on the Home ribbon, activates many of the text formatting options Figure You can use these options to change the font, size, and color of your text, turn your text into a right-justified paragraph or a bullet point, and much more.
Chapter 3 describes your options in detail. Resize and transform handles appear at the corners and edges of the text box Figure Tiny white resize handles , which are square on the edges of the text box and circular on the corners, let you stretch or shrink your text box by dragging them.
The circular green transform handle appears above the top of your text box and lets you tilt it. Drag the handles to tilt or resize your text box. Chapter 3 shows you how to format text boxes, as well as the text inside them. Chapter 5 shows you how to add placeholder text boxes to slide masters. There are two schools of thought when it comes to using text in PowerPoint presentations.
One says text is king; the other advises PowerPointers to use as little text as possible. Text rules—always has, always will. According to the more-bullets-the-better crowd, a presentation is text. Folks who subscribe to this approach may quibble about the number of words an effective bullet point should be limited to the number five comes up a lot , and whether to put the most important bullets at the beginning of the presentation or at the end; but the focus is always on how—not whether—to use text.
Text distracts. And if your audience does read your slides, that means they are busy reading and forming opinions instead of paying attention to the actual presentation which is you. According to these folks, using a lot of text results in lazily constructed, ineffective, and boring brain-dumps-disguised-as-presentations. These folks believe the best use of PowerPoint is carefully chosen charts, graphs, and worth-a-thousand-word pictures. And you can always give them handouts containing those all-important bullet points after the show, if you must.
So which approach should you take? It depends. And in some cases—academic lectures, for example—using text as a springboard for discussion and audience note-taking just makes more sense.
Ultimately, you get to make the call. The Insert ribbon Figure appears. On the Insert ribbon, click Text Box. When you mouse over your slide, you notice that your cursor looks like a tiny down arrow.
On the slide, click where you want your new text box to appear. A text box appears with the cursor handily positioned inside Figure The Drawing Tools Format tab pops up, and on the Home ribbon, PowerPoint activates most of the formatting options, ready for you to format your text. Alternatively, you can click and drag to draw the outline of your text box before you begin typing. In addition to adding text directly to your slides, as shown here, you can also paste or type text onto shapes for example, a Stop sign.
Chapter 9 shows you how.
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