Microsoft PowerPoint 2011

  • Each PowerPoint file is the combination of 35-milimeter slides with added text , graphics, photos, and even video in order to help speakers present their ideas to the audience

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 includes many features which not only allow creating and editing presentations but also to enhance the appearance of the slide show. In addition, PowerPoint let presenters save their presentations to the Web, broadcasting them to the audience around the Internet as well as convert them to variety of formats to share with others such as video, PDF, and even HTML.

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Tour of the PowerPoint 2011 interface

Before you begin, you should familiarize yourself with some of the user interface elements that you can use in all presentations

(1) Menu Bar: The area at the top of the screen where all menus are displayed. The File, Edit, and View menus have the most commonly used menu command

(2) Standard Toolbar: The toolbar that displays the name of the presentation (in this case, Presentation 2) and buttons for some of the most common tasks, such as opening, saving, and printing a presentation

(3) Ribbon: The organization of tabbed commands

(4) Thumbnails in the left pane: Navigation to help you quickly find and view the slide that you want. If you do not see the left pane, from the Menu Bar, click View > select Normal

(5) Slide: A single “page” in a presentation as viewed in normal view. If you do not see a slide, from the Menu Bar, click View > select Normal

(6) Placeholders: Preformatted containers for content. The slide layout determines which placeholders appear on a slide

(7) Note pane: An area to type notes to reference when you give the presentation. During the presentation, only the presenter sees the notes

(8) Tabs: The tabbed command bar at the top of a window or work area that organizes features into logical groups. The Home tab has the most commonly used commands for formatting presentation content and design

(9) Windows control buttons:

  • Red button   - close the current presentation without closing the program
  • Orange button  - minimize the current personation to the Mac OS Dock
  • Green button   - return the window to the original full screen size

(10) Window resize: The control of the window size by clicking and dragging it until the windows is at a desired size