Student Objectives: Start Powerpoint; Open an existing presentation.; Save a presentation.; Navigate through a presentation.; Use the menus and toolbars.; Apply a design template.; Change a slide layout.; Insert clip art.; Add a slide to a presentation.; Change views.; Print a presentation.; Exit Powerpoint.

What is Microsoft Powerpoint?
1) Powerpoint is a program/application that can help you create a professional presentation.
2) You can use Powerpoint to create slides, outlines, speakers' notes, and audience handouts.
3) A presentation can include text, clip art, graphs, tables, charts, and even sound or video clips.

How is a presentation saved?
1) Just like any other Office 2000 application/program you save a new presentation by choosing File, Save As.
2) The next time you make any additional changes to the presentation, you choose File, Save.

What is the expanded menu of commands?
1) Expanded menus are used when the user wants to see ALL of the commands in the menu bar.  It is done by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the menu.

How can more buttons be seen the Formatting toolbar.
1) The Standard and Formatting toolbar are on the same row in Powerpoint only. 
2) The Formatting Toolbar has a button called Common Tasks, that displays a menu of frequently performed functions when clicked.
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What are Design templates and how are they used in Powerpoint?
1) Pre-designed graphic styles that can be applied to your slides.
2) How do I do it?  Choose Format, Apply Design Template OR double-click the 2nd button on the status bar.

How can a user change the layout of a slide?
1) When you want to easily change the layout of text or graphics on slides, you can use Powerpoint's preset layouts.
2) Powerpoint has 24 AutoLayouts you can choose from to create a new slide or change the layout of an existing slide.  Each AutoLayout has a placeholder, which reserves a space in the presentation for text, columns, graphics, pictures, tables, graphics, media clips, etc.
3) To change the layout: Choose Format, Slide Layout OR click the Common Tasks button and choose Slide Layout from the menu.

How is clip-art inserted into a slide?
1) If there is already a placeholder, then double-click it on the slide and the Microsoft Clip Gallery appears.
2) Another way is if there is not a placeholder for a picture, then choose Insert, Picture, ClipArt from the menu and the Clip Gallery appears.
3) Note: Media, Pictures, Sound, and Motion Clips are inserted the same ways are described above minus the appearance of a clip gallery.

How are New Slides added?
1) You can add a new slide by clicking the New Slide button on the toolbar
2) Another way is to choose Insert, New Slide from the menu bar
3) Another way is to choose the Common Tasks button.
4) One last way to insert a new slide is to copy it from another presentation.  This is done by choosing Files, Slides, and Insert from the menu-bar.  The user then locates the presentation they want to copy a slide form.

What are the 5 ways a presentation can be viewed, and how can these views be accessed?
1) Normal View: The view is the default view and has the largest slide pane and displays only one slide at a time.  It is useful for adding text or modifying the slide's appearance.  (Normal View is the view the comes up when Powerpoint opens)
2) Outline View:  The outline pane on the left shows the slide titles and main text in outline form.
3) Notes View:  Where the notes pane on the bottom is where you can create notes that are helpful when presenting.  If you want to add speaker's notes, then it is done in this view.
4) Slide Sorter View:  Displays miniature versions of the slides on screen so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging.
5) Slide Show View: Each slide fills the entire screen and you can run your presentation on the computer as if it were a slide projector to preview how it will look.

What are my printing options if I want to print my presentation?
1) Printing is done by pressing File, Print.  The user can then choose whether he or she want to print the presentation as a slide using the Slide Option, as with notes using the Notes Page option, or as an outline using the Outline View option.