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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW..........
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WHAT IS PRESENTATION?.

Presentation is reporting and giving of information to the audience,which could take the form of lecture, seminar or annual general meeting.

WHAT IS POWERPOINT?.

Powerpoint is a graphic presentation program use to organize and present information effectively and professionally

during meetings, seminals, worshops, and it is also use every media advertisements.

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ACESSING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

1. Click start button on the task bar, point to program

2. From the program list, choose MICROSOFT POWERPOINT.

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POWERPOINT SCREEN:

1. Title bar: Displays the program name and contains a control icon and resizing buttons.

2. Menu bar: Lists the names of the menus fro where you choose powerpoint commands.

3. Standard toolbar: Contains buttons for the most frequently used commands, such as copying ,pasting. These buttons are

called icons, when you point to an icon, a tool tip (information) appears. When you rest the mouse pointer on a tool tip

(information) appears showing the use of the icon.

4. Formatting toolbar: Contains buttons for the most frequently used commands such as changing font type and size. Some

buttons on the formatting toolbar are called TOGGLE BUTTON: Which means they can perform two functions; that is it turns

the function ON or OFF. Examples of these buttons are B I U

5. TASK PANE: Shows at the right side of the screen, it enables you to open or create a new presentation.

A. OPEN; It opens the fill open dialog box, allowing you to open a previously created presentation.

B. CREATE A NEW PRESENTATION: It opens the new slide dialog box, allowing you to choose.

C. AUTO CONTENT WIZARD: Helps you determine the the content and organization of your presentation by creating a title

slide and outline using ready-made text for the category you choose.

6. TEMPLATE: It opens the apply template dialog box, displaying PowerPoint's preformatted templates.

7. BLANK PRESENTATION: It opens the new slide dialog box, allowing you to choose a pre-designed slide layout.

8. PRESENTATION WINDOW: It is the "canvas" (area) where you type text,work with lines or shapes and view your

presentation.

9. STATUS BAR: It is located at the bottom of the PowerPoint window, displays message about what you are doing in

PowerPoint.

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CREATING A SLIDE:

A slide is a unit of powerpoint presentation.

1. From file menu,Click NEW

2. From the dialog box,click on the blank presentation.

3. Choose the type of slide that will suit your presentation, by clicking on the box.

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SAVING A SLIDE

1. From the file format menu, Click save as

2. Type the name ofthe slide and click save

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ENTERING TEXT:

On the first slide that display, the title slide has two placeholders, the title placeholder labelled "CLICK TO ADD TITLE"

and a main text place holder labelled "CLICK TO ADD SUB-TITLE" where you enter additional information.

1. On the slide that you've already inserted, click inside the selection box it will change to text cursor,

(the insertion point); it indicates where the text will appear in the title placeholder.

2. Type your text.

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RESIZING SELECTION BOX:

1. Click on the border selection box to highlight it

2. Drag the circular box to increase or decrease the size.

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INSERTING MORE SELECTION BOX:

1. Click on textbox from the draw toolbar or from insert menu

2. Click to drag.

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INSERTING MORE SLIDES

1. From format menu, click on new slide (ctrl + M) or from insert menu, click new slide.

2. From the task pane slide layout that will appear, click on the new arrow and choose either apply to selected slides /

reapply layout (it will change the selected slide format) or click insert new slide (it will create a new slide).

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APPLYING CUSTOMIZED ANIMATION:

CUSTOM ANIMATION: You can add dramatic element to slide show (presentation) by adding special effect to an individual

slide or group of slides. Slide show special effect include CUSTOM ANIMATION (Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, OR Motion path)

and TRANSITION.

1. From the slide show menu, choose Custom Animation

2. A task pane appears at the rightside of the screen, select the text or picture

3. Click on add effect: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, Motion path.

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TERMINOLOGIES:

-- Entrance: It is the effect that shows in an object, text or picture when it is appearing as aslide.

-- Emphasis: It is the effect that displays by a text ,object or picture while it is on the screen.

-- Exit: This is the effect displayed on the text,picture when it is about leaving the screen.

-- Motion path: This acts like emphasis, but differs with the fact that it can be customized.

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HOW TO APPLY ENTRANCE EFFECT:

1. Select the object to apply entrance effect

2. From the slide show menu,click Custom Animation

3. From the task pane, click add effect.

4. From the list of effects choose Entrance, and from the list of entrance effect choose any one or click on more effect

for more choice.

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REMOVING EFFECTS:

Select the text or picture and click on remove from custom animation pane.

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VIEWING A PRESENTATION:

SLIDE SHOW: Displays your presentation as an electronic slide show

1. From the slide show menu,click view show or depress and release F5

2. On the slide show view screen click the mouse button or press the down and up arrow key for the slide effects to move

from one to another.

3. Leaving a slide show view is by depressing Esc or right-click and choose end show.

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PAGE SETUP:

1. From file menu,click Page Setup

2. Slides size for: Specifies the medium that you want to view the slide with.

3. Specify breadth and lenght of the slide

4. Number: It is the number you want the slide to begin with

5.Orientation Slide: Choose either portrait or landscape to change the orentation of the paper.

7. Click the OK button

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EDITING SLIDE:

You can move and duplicate slide from one slide to another by copy, cut and paste command.

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UNDO/REDO: Use to reverse recent action

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CUT:

1. Select the box containing the text you want to cut

2. click on cut from edit menu

3. Deselect the textbox, open the slide where you want to place it

4. Click on the edit menu and click paste.

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COPY:

1. Select the selection box containing the text you want to copy

2. Click on copy from th edit menu

3. Deselect the textbox, open the slide where you want to paste it

4. Click on edit and choose paste

5. DUPLICATE: From edit menu, click duplicate or Ctrl + D

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SELECT ALL AND DELETING SLIDE:

1. Click on the slide, from the edit menu choose all or press Ctrl + A

2. Depress delete key from the key board or from edit menu click delete.

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HOW TO APPLY EMPHASIS EFFECT:

1. Select the text or picture, click on Custom Animation

2. Click on Add effect and point at emphasis, then choose from the emphasis list.

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HOW TO APPLY EXIT:

1. Select the text or picture, click on Custom Animation

2. Click onAdd effect and point at Exit and choose from the Exit list.

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VIEWING A PRESENTATION:

There are different powepoint views:

(A). Normal view (B). Note pages view (C). Slide sorter view (D). Slide show view

1. Normal ViewAlt + V + N) displays the title and main topics in the form of an outline, use this view to enter and

edit your presenation.

2. Slide Sorter View: (Alt + V + D) displays a miniature picture of each slide in the order in which they appear in your

presentation; use this view to rearrange and add special effects to your slides.

3.Notes pages view; Displays a reduced reduced slide image and a box to type notes, use this view to take notes on your

slides slide that you can use during you presentation.

4.Slide Show View: (Alt + V + W) displays your presentation as an electronic slide show.

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DAY 2,STAY TUNNED FOR MOR UPDATES!!!

Moi... I jes stare at d programme. Ad i use d auto-wizard content to jes do d headline presentation

IS THAT ALL?

economia: IS THAT ALL?

HAHA,more updates are in.

kenny1795: Moi... I jes stare at d programme. Ad i use d auto-wizard content to jes do d headline presentation

I see,well i would be posting a step by step tutorial,and i will be talking about the auto wizard content too,stay tunned.

DAY 2

Nathn z happenin

kenny1795: Nathn z happenin

Sorry huh, I got very busy since then couldn't upload more but i was expecting you to follow up by chipping in updates after all you seemed to be very insightful and informed about the topic..

I'm recently on the forum, but it looks like the presentation topic is already very outdated here.

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