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3.1.1 Graphical Environment of Microsoft PowerPoint

María Fernanda Sosa Rivero

3.1 Subtopic

It is an application developed by Microsoft Office, that permits you to create Presentations composed by slides that allows you to include text, tables, graphs, sound, among others. Also you can interact inside the same presentation .

3.1.1 POWERPOINT ENVIRONMENT

Introduction

To start a session

To start a working session in Microsoft PowerPoint you can do it in different ways, depending on how Office is configured in the computer.

Start Menu:

To start a session

1.- Click on Start menu

2.- Find the application of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 and click on it.

Desktop:

1.- Double click on the short-cut that is in the desktop.

Main Parts of the PowerPoint Screen

Main Parts of the PowerPoint Screen

1.-File Menu: Button that is used to display a menu, where you can Open, Save, Print, and some other options that you can apply to the presentation.

2.-Quick Access Toolbar: It is the area where we can personalize the most used command buttons of PowerPoint.

Definitions

3.-Ribbon: It displays the different tabs, that contains groups and these contain buttons that are used to design the PowerPoint presentations. It is divided in: Home, Insert, Design, Animations, Slide Show, Review and View.

4.- Slides and Outline: In this area there are two different ways to visualize the presentation, the Outline view, that shows mainly the text that contains the slides and the Slides view, that shows in miniature the content of the slide.

Definitions

5.-Status bar: In this bar is observed the slide that is active and the total of slides that composes the presentation, beside the different view buttons and the Zoom button.

6.-Area for the design of the slide: It is the design area where the objects that will form the slides that conforms the presentation are introduced, in each one of them you can insert clip arts, shapes, WordArt and some other objects.

Types of View:

The type of view is the way to visualize the working area of the main screen. To see them you have to activate the View tab.

Types of view

Normal view

This view contains the area where you can visualize in a complete form the presentation.

Normal

Slide sorter

Here you can observe the slides in a miniature form , and permits to change the order of the slides and eliminate them, but you are not allowed to make changes

Slide sorter

Notes page

You can observe each one of the slides in a special form, in order to put a text to each slide (only used for the person that will use the presentation).

Notes page

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