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Provides instructions on using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, covering such topics as editing and formatting a presentation, working with graphics, using multimedia, and working with other programs.
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Chapter 1 THE FUNDAMENTALS
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES:
Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
Understand the PowerPoint program screen
Using menus and toolbars
Using and filling out dialog boxes
Using keystroke shortcuts and right mouse button menus
Opening and saving presentations
Creating a new presentation
Viewing and printing a presentation
Moving around a presentation
Getting help
CHAPTER TASK: CREATING A SIMPLE PRESENTATION
Prerequisites
· A computer with Windows 2000 or later, and PowerPoint 2003 installed.
· An understanding of basic computer functions (how to use the mouse and keyboard).
Welcome to your first lesson of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. PowerPoint is a desktop presentation program that turns your ideas into professional, convincing presentations. If you’ve ever used an overhead projector, flip chart, or even a blackboard, you’re going to love PowerPoint! PowerPoint lets you create slides that include text, graphics, charts, and even digital movies. Once you have created a presentation, you can display it as an electronic slide show on any computer. Or, you can print your slides so that you can display them as transparencies or 35mm slides.
This chapter will introduce you to the PowerPoint "basics"—what you need to know to create, print, and save a presentation. If you’ve already seen the Microsoft PowerPoint program screen before, you know that it’s filled with cryptic-looking buttons, menus, and icons. By the time you’ve finished this chapter, you will know what most of those buttons, menus, and icons are used for.
Before starting PowerPoint 2003 (some people call starting a program opening it or launching it), make sure your computer is on—if it’s not, turn it on! You start PowerPoint 2003 the same as you would start any other program on your computer—using the Start button. Because every computer can be set up differently (some people like to rearrange and reorder their program menu), the procedure for starting PowerPoint might be different from the one listed here.
1 Make sure your computer is on and the Windows desktop is open.
Your computer screen should look similar to the one shown in Figure 1-1.
2 Use your mouse to point to and click the Start button, located on the left-hand corner of the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
The Windows Start menu pops up.
3 Move your mouse until the cursor points to All Programs.
A menu similar to the one shown in Figure 1-2 appears to the right of Programs. The programs and menus listed will depend on the programs installed on your computer, so your menu will probably look different from the illustration.
4 On the Programs menu, point to and click Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Depending on how many programs are installed on your computer and how they are organized, it might be a little difficult to find the Microsoft PowerPoint program. Once you click the Microsoft PowerPoint program, your computer’s hard drive will whir for amoment while it loads PowerPoint. The PowerPoint program screen appears, as shown in Figure 1-3.
That’s it! You are ready to start creating presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. In the next lesson you will learn what all those funny-looking things on your screen are.
If you’re upgrading from a previous version of PowerPoint to PowerPoint 2003, you’re in luck—in most respects, PowerPoint 2003 looks and works almost the same as previous versions. In fact, the upgrade from PowerPoint 2002 to PowerPoint 2003 probably saw the fewest changes from version to version. Table 1-1 discusses what’s new in PowerPoint 2003 (and a review of some features from PowerPoint 2002).
You might find the PowerPoint 2003 program screen a bit confusing and overwhelming the first time you see it. What are all of those buttons, icons, menus, and arrows for? This lesson will help you become familiar with the PowerPoint program screen. There are no step-by-step instructions for this lesson—all you have to do is look at Figure 1-5 then refer to Table 1-2 to see what everything you’re looking at means. And most of all, relax! This lesson is only meant to help you get acquainted with the PowerPoint screen; you don’t have to memorize anything.
NOTE PowerPoint 97 users should pay careful attention to how the PowerPoint screen is broken up into three different panes: Outline, Slide, and Notes. Since monitors and resolution sizes have gotten larger in recent years, Microsoft decided to let you view more information about your presentations at once without having to switch between windows.
Don’t worry if you find some of these elements of the PowerPoint program screen confusing at first—they will make sense after you’ve actually used them, and you will get a chance to use them in the next lesson.
This lesson explains one of the most common ways to give commands to PowerPoint—by using the menus. Menus for allWindows programs can be found at the top of a window, just beneath the program’s title bar.
PowerPoint’s new personalized menus have some unique characteristics not featured in other Windows programs and previous versions of PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 displays its menu commands on the screen in three different ways:
· By displaying every command possible, like mostWindows programs, including earlier versions of PowerPoint.
· By hiding the commands you don’t use as frequently (the more advanced commands) from view.
· By displaying the hidden commands by clicking the downward-pointing arrows at the bottom of the menu or after waiting a couple of seconds.
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