30 Powerpoint Presentation Facts

• To create presentations, you write and design slides.
• The Slide Layout Pane contains a set of 27 different Auto Layout formats that arrange various types of objects on slides.
• Objects include such things as titles, charts, graphics, or bulleted lists that you might want to place on a slide.
• The Title Slide is the default setting for the first slide in every presentation.
• The
  Title Bar (Microsoft PowerPoint) and the name of the presentation you are working on.
• The title bar appears at the top of all Windows programs.
• The
  Standard Toolbar contains icons for some of the most commonly used commands. Command such as saving, opening, and printing are included
• Placeholders
  contain formatting characteristics for items to be added which saves time in creating your presentations.
• View buttons
  allow you to quickly switch between PowerPoint views, which change how your presentation is displayed on the screen.
• The
  Status Bar, displays information about the number of slides in the show, the Design Template in use, and contains buttons for easy access menu commands.
• The
  Slide Sorter Pane displays thumbnail representations of each slide in a presentation.
• You can use the Slides tab to navigate by clicking on the slideyou want to view.
• You can also drag a thumbnail to move a slide to a new position in your presentation.
• The
  Menu Bar displays a list of menus that you use to give commands to PowerPoint.
• Clicking a menu name displays a list of commands-for example, clicking the Format menu name would display different formatting commands.
• The
  Formatting Toolbar contains buttons for the most commonly used formatting commands, such as making text bold or italic.
• The
  Slide Pane displays the slides one at a time, as they will appear when they are printed or displayed in a presentation.
• The
  Task Pane lists commands that are relevant to whatever you’re doing in PowerPoint.
• You can easily hide the task pane if you want to have more room to view a document: Simply click the close button in the upper-right corner of the task pane.
• PowerPoint displays a slide containing placeholders which identify the placement and location of the objects on the slide.
• Each placeholder contains directions to help you complete the slide.
• If you start typing without selecting the text placeholder, PowerPoint automatically places the text in the first text placeholder.
• To play the slide, click the
  Slide Show button in the View Buttons.
• To return to the Slide View press the
  ESC key on the keyboard.
• You can create a new slide by Clicking the New Slide button on formatting toolbar or by Choosing New Slide from the Insert menu.
• To change the slide layout, simply click on the desired layout in the slide layout pane.
• You can also insert new slides in between current slides. To do this, click on the 2
  nd slide in the slide sorter pane and then select “New Slide” from the formatting toolbar.
• You can change the size of a selected picture on a slide using the sizing handles as well as rotate it’s original position with the green rotating handle.
• You can print entire slides, handouts with multiple slides, notes pages, and outlines for your presentations.
• To insert a picture choose Clip Art from the Insert menu.