PowerPoint Basics:
Summary

With PowerPoint you can create a set of slides to accompany a speech on a screen or to print for handouts or to show on a computer monitor. You can create slides yourself or let PowerPoint create them by opening an existing outline or with the AutoContent Wizard.

PowerPoint has several views to help you with your work. In Normal view there are 3 panes: Slide, Navigation, Notes. Masters view allows you to control the default look and behavior of all the slides or handouts or notes pages. Notes Page view shows how each slide with its notes will print. Slide Sorter view shows thumbnails of all the slides. Slide Show view runs the presentation at full screen size so you can see how will look on screen. Print Preview is new to PowerPoint 2002 and lets you see what will be printed.

A slide's text and title are normally in placeholders. Only text in a placeholder appears in the presentation's outline. A placeholder is a special type of textbox.

Printing a presentation is more complex than usual because of all the choices you have. You can print each slide separately or print several on a page. You can print just the outline or each slide with its notes. Most printing choices are in the Print dialog and also on the Print Preview toolbar. The document Properties dialog opens from the Print dialog and controls some features. The printer's Properties dialog controls the special features of the printer.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2008