Microsoft Powerpoint



Question: How to start MS-Powerpoint?

Answer: Launch Using All Programs.
Click the Windows "Start" button, and then select “All Programs.”
Scroll through the list of folders that appear to find the folder labeled “Microsoft Office.”
Click that folder, and then click the “Microsoft PowerPoint” icon to open PowerPoint.


Question: How to create a new file in MS-Powerpoint?


Answer:  
1.      On the tab at the upper left side of your screen, hit the "File" tab.
2.      On the vertical toolbar to the left, hit the "New" tab.
3.      If you wish to use a template, click on the "Sample templates" box.
4.      Click on the template you want to use, depending on the purpose of your presentation.
5.      If you wish to use a theme, click on the "Themes" box in the "New" tab.
6.      Once your theme is loaded, click on the "Click to add title" and "Click to add subtitle" boxes and add the title and subtitle (if necessary) of your own presentation.
7.      After deciding on a title, click on the "New Slide" button in the "Slides" tab up top.

Question: How to open an existing file in MS-Powerpoint?

Answer:  Start PowerPoint and then click the File tab > Open

Question: How to save current file in MS-Powerpoint?


Answer:    Go to "File > Save/ Save As" and save your file so that you can retrieve it later.

Question: How to close the file in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: FILE menu > EXIT option.

Question: How to change the font in MS-Powerpoint? Or

                 How to change the font size, style & color in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: To change the fonts on the slide master, follow these steps:
  1. Open a blank or an existing presentation.
  2. On the View tab, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master.
  3. On the slide, click the title text or the level of body text where you want to apply a new font style.
  4. In the Edit Theme group, click Fonts.
Question: How to format a paragraph with Text alignment, Modifying Line Spacing & Copy Formatting in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer:
Step 1: Open the presentation containing the paragraph to be formatted,
Step 2: Click on the “Home” tab at the top of the PowerPoint window.

Step 3: Select the paragraph text you want to format.

Step 4: To change the paragraph’s alignment,

1.      Click on the button for left, center, right, or justified alignment from the “Paragraph” group on the toolbar.

2.      Click the “Align Text” button and select whether you want the paragraph to align in the top, middle, or bottom of the box.

Step 5: Change the paragraph’s line spacing,

1.      Click on the “Line Spacing” button from the “Paragraph” group on the toolbar.

2.      On the drop-down menu that appears, choose one of the spacing options or click on “Line Spacing Options”.

Step 6: Copy the formatting used in an existing paragraph to a different paragraph,
1.      Select all of the text in the existing paragraph and click on the “Format Painter” paintbrush icon in the “Clipboard” group.
2.      Select all of the text in the paragraph to which the formatting is to be applied. This will copy the paragraph formatting from the first textbox to the second.
3.      Press the “Esc” key to turn off the format painter.

Question: How to create a Bulleting and number format in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: You can change the style, color, and size of the bullets or numbers in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. You can also change the number that you want to start from, increase or decrease indents, and increase or decrease spacing between a bullet or number and its text.

Question: How to insert image in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: To insert a picture from a file:
  1. Select the Insert tab, and then click the Pictures command in the Images group. Clicking the Pictures command.
  2. A dialog box will appear. Locate and select the desired image file, then click Insert.
  3. The picture will appear on the currently selected slide. The inserted picture.
Question: How to insert clipart in MS-Powerpoint?
                                                          
Answer: Click the “Insert” tab and select Clip Art from the Images group. A Clip Art pane will appear.

Question: How to insert table in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: Create and format a table in PowerPoint
  1. Select the slide that you want to add a table to.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table.
  3. In the Insert Table dialog box, do one of the following: ...
  4. To add text to the table cells, click a cell, and then enter your text.
Question: How to insert chart, shapes and SmartArt graphics in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer:
·         For a shape, picture, chart, table, SmartArt graphic, or other object, right-click it, click Format object, and then click the Alt Text pane.
·         To add Alt Text to the entire SmartArt graphic or chart, click the border of the SmartArt graphic or chart, and not an individual shape or piece.

Question: How to move and resize an image in MS-Powerpoint?



Answer: 

Step 1: Right click on the image, and you'll see a context menu appear:

Step 2: Select Format Picture from the menu. When the Format Picture dialogue box appears, select the Size tab:

Step 3: Locate the Scale section halfway down, and change the Height to 80%. When you change the Height, you'll see the other numbers change automatically. (If you don't, make sure you have a tick in the box next to Lock aspect ratio.)

Step 4: When the numbers are the same as in the image above, click the Preview button at the bottom. Then click the Position tab at the top.

Step 5: You can leave the Vertical position. But set the Horizontal position to 9.00 cm. Click OK.

Question: How to slide show menu from beginning slide, from current slide, setup in MS-Powerpoint?

Answer: 
1.      Thumbnails of slides; click a thumbnail to skip slides or return to a slide that has already been presented.
2.      This is the slide currently being shown to the audience.
3.      End Show button.
4.      Black-out button; click this button to temporarily darken the audience screen, and then click it again to show the current slide.
5.      Up Next; indicates the item that will appear on screen with the next click.
6.      Move forward or backward through the slide show presentation by using these buttons.
7.      Elapsed time, in hours and minutes, since the start of the slide show presentation.
8.      Speaker's notes.

Setting up a presentation to use presenter view

·         In Control Panel, click the Display icon.
·         Presenter view must be turned on.
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