Introduction to Power point

The primary purpose of PowerPoint is to help you design, create, and edit
presentations and printed handouts. A presentation is a set of screens
(called slides) that you present to people in a group. Because PowerPoint
provides a wide variety of predefned templates, you don't have to e a
graphics design specialist to create good!loo"ing presentations.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a software product used to perform computer-based presentations.
There are various circumstances in which a presentation is made: teaching a class,
introducing a product to sell, explaining an organizational structure, etc.
There are two main kinds of presentations ou can deliver: before an audience or not. The
preparation and the actual deliver of each are !uite different. "efore getting into the details
of each, we will first take a look at the software and analze what it has to offer.
Note:
The term presentation refers to the entire PowerPoint collection of slides,
whereas the term slide refers to an individual screen within a
presentation.
PowerPoint slides can hold many "inds of information. #ere are a few of
the things you can add to a PowerPoint presentation$
%ata you insert into PowerPoint, including te&t, charts, graphs, and
graphics
'ord documents
(ive data from the )nternet including complete 'e pages
*&cel wor"sheets
*&cel graphs and charts
Access dataases
+ultimedia content such as movies and sound
,raphics programs that you use to create and edit graphics
-ther software programs whose data you import into PowerPoint
Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
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