Slide Thumbnail

Notes Pane

Slide Pane

View Shortcuts

Slides Tab

Outline Tab

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Fit Slide to Window7.

Placeholders6.

Purpose of a PowerPoint Presentation

• To act as a guide, supplementary tool, etc. during a presentation

• It SHOULD NOT BE the entire presentation!

3 PowerPoint Rules

• Light on Dark, Dark on Light– Light backgrounds, dark text, vice versa

• 6 x 6 Rule– No more than 6 bullets per slide and 6 words per

bullet; use short phrases or keywords to trigger thoughts and the main ideas

• Don’t overdo your animations!

DIFFERENT VIEWS & THEIR ICONSNormal View- Used to create the slides- Add text, objects,

animations, transitions

Outline Tab- Displays all text

on your slides in outline form

Slides Tab- Displays slides as

small thumbnails- Allows you to

easily see the order & change it

Slide Sorter View- Displays all slides

as thumbnails- Allows you to

easily click & drag the thumbnails when moving or rearranging them

Slide Show View- Runs the presentation!!- On Keyboard . . . F5 Key

Notes Page View- Can view the notes you’ve

entered in the Notes Pane & add more here

- Slide is on top- Speaker notes on bottom- Helpful during presentations

Slide Master View- Changes made here

controls all formatting and appears on all slides

- Each layout has a layout master

VOCABULARY TERMSTransition: The way a slide appears on the screen

Custom Animation:Motion given to text, graphics, or pictures

Placeholders: Dashed, outlined box where information can be placed

Themes: Predesigned graphic styles- Color Scheme, Fonts, Formatting, Layouts

Layout: Where the placeholders for variousobjects are placed on a slide

Examples: Title Slide, Title & Content, Two Content, Title Only, Blank, Content with Caption, etc.