MS PowerPoint is a program which is included in the Microsoft Office suite. It is used to make presentations for personal and professional purposes.
Powerpoint Ribbon:-
The ribbon menu is found across many of Microsoft's apps, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It lives above the main area of the application.
The PowerPoint ribbon lets you switch between various tabs.
The ribbon contains a series of tabs that you can switch between. Each of these have a unique set of tools to work with your presentation differently. When you switch tabs on the ribbon, you'll see new buttons and options to change your presentation:
File. -Save, share, and export your presentation.
Home. -A general-purpose collection of the most common tools that you'll use in PowerPoint.
Insert. An all-in-one tool to add every imagine-able type of content, such as tables, pictures, charts, video, and more.
Design. -Controls the look and feel of your presentation with theme and style settings.
Transitions. -Add animations when you switch slides.
Animations.- Controls the order and style that objects will enter or exit your slide with.
Slide Show. -Control settings related to the way your presentation appears when sharing it with an audience.
Now that you understand the layout, you've got a better idea of how you can jump to the feature you need. Let's dive a bit deeper into how you can use several of these key tabs.
The Home Tab
Use it for: a general selection of the most popular tools in PowerPoint.
I usually stay on the Home tab when I'm working in PowerPoint. The reason is because it's got practically every tool you need. From adding a new slide to changing text and paragraph settings, the Home tab is the default for most users.
The Insert Tab
When you're working on adding content to a slide, the Insert tab has every possible tool to add new content to a slide. Choose one of these types of objects to add it to the slide.
Views
PowerPoint has a variety of views that are simply different ways to work with the same presentation. Change the view to get a different perspective on your content.
Use views for a different way to edit and build your PowerPoint presentation.
In the screenshot below, you can see the difference between the default Normal view and Slide Sorter view. Normal view shows each slide front and center. Slide Sorter view creates thumbnails that you can drag and drop to reorder the presentation.
The Design Tab
An attractive presentation can really grab your audience's attention. We use themes and styles in PowerPoint to add visual appeal to the presentation, and the Design tab really controls these settings.
On the Design tab, click one of the themes to restyle the presentation. Or, try out a different Style thumbnail to overhaul the color theme.
Create a New Presentation:-
Select “File” then “New.
Shortcut: Hold the Control button, then press ‘N’ for “New”
Open an Existing Presentation:-
Select “File” then “Open”.
Saving a Presentation:-
Select “File” then “Save As”.
Shortcut: Press f12 to Save the file with a new name .
Add a Slider:-
Go to the “Home” ribbon and select the “New Slide” button.
Select the Slide Pane and press “Enter”.
Insert Pictures from Files:-
Go to the “Insert” ribbon then select “Picture”.
Locate the image file from the folder to where it is saved.
Select “Insert” from the dialog box.
Insert Clip Art:-
Go to the “Insert” ribbon then select “Clip Art”.
Enter search terms in Clip Art search pane on the right and select image.
Format Pictures:-
To resize the image, click on the picture to surround the image with a blue box.
Drag the corner dot away from the center to make it larger and toward the center to make it smaller.
Format Fonts:-
Go to the “Home” ribbon then make changes to the font size and style of the text.
This Home tab also allows you to change all aspects of the font size and style.
