PowerPoint and How to Start It.

1. What is Power Point?

• Power Point (PPT) is a presentation software that enables a user to create powerful presentations
  
• Presentations created with PPT can have audio and visual effects making them look professional or jazzy as per the requirement
  
• You can create educational presentation for schools to professional presentations for big companies
  
• PPT allows you to include formatted text, graphics, pictures, sound, and animations in the presentations
  

2. What is a Presentation?

• A presentation is a collection of slides
  
• A slide is like a frame in a presentation that represents data
  
• During a presentation, the slides are displayed one after the other and the contents of the presentation are displayed through these slides on screen
  
• Presentations are designed for delivering information to an audience
  
• Presentations can contain text to display information or have multi-media effects to make them impressive and interactive
  
• Presentations are saved as files with a .ppt extension
  

3. How to Start Power Point
To start Microsoft Power Point, select the
Start => Programs => Microsoft PowerPoint command
This displays the Microsoft PowerPoint window as shown in the diagram below, with the following sections:



 Title bar
 Menu bar
 Toolbar
 Task Pane
 Slide pane

Title bar: displays the name of the current presentation

Menu bar: consists of menus, such as File, Edit, and View. Each menu consists of commands that enable you to perform corresponding actions, e.g., Edit menu contains Copy command that enables you to copy text or images to the clipboard

Toolbar: contains buttons that provide easy access to the commands and functions of PowerPoint. By default, PowerPoint displays the Standard, Formatting, and Drawing toolbars. To display or hide a toolbar, select the View à Toolbars command from the Menu bar and select the appropriate toolbar. To move a toolbar, place the cursor at the left-most corner of the toolbar and move the cursor until it changes to a 4-headed arrow. Then, drag the toolbar to the position where you want to place the toolbar.

Task Pane: Located on the right side of the screen, the task pane changes depending on the current status of presentation. This component provides shortcuts for performing commonly used commands, such as creating new presentations or applying character formatting. For example, to display the New Presentation task pane, you can select the File à New command.

Slide pane: is the workspace that is used to create slides.

Slides tab: It enables you to display a miniature image of the presentation slides. Click the image to view the corresponding slide in the slide pane.

Outline tab: It enables you to display an outline of the slide content.

From here, you can perform any other operations available in PowerPoint.