Microsoft PowerPoint

What is Microsoft PowerPoint?

माइक्रोसॉफ्ट पावरपॉइंट क्या है?  माइक्रोसॉफ्ट पावरपॉइंट किसे कहते हैं?

Microsoft PowerPoint is a capable application for creating slide shows. It comes packaged with Word, Excel, and other office productivity tools as a typical part of the Microsoft Office software suite from the corporation. The application uses slides to present multimedia-rich information.

माइक्रोसॉफ्ट पावरपॉइंट स्लाइड शो बनाने के लिए एक सक्षम एप्लिकेशन है। यह निगम के माइक्रोसॉफ्ट ऑफिस सॉफ्टवेयर सूट के एक विशिष्ट हिस्से के रूप में वर्ड, एक्सेल और अन्य कार्यालय उत्पादकता उपकरणों के साथ पैक किया गया है। एप्लिकेशन मल्टीमीडिया-समृद्ध जानकारी प्रस्तुत करने के लिए स्लाइड का उपयोग करता है।

 

Uses of PowerPoint

When creating a slideshow with important data for a presentation, PowerPoint is a great tool to use. It is frequently used in presentations for both work and school. It is a complete presentation graphics package that comes with everything you need to make a presentation that looks polished.

किसी प्रेजेंटेशन के लिए महत्वपूर्ण डेटा के साथ स्लाइड शो बनाते समय, पावरपॉइंट उपयोग करने के लिए एक बेहतरीन टूल है। इसका उपयोग अक्सर काम और स्कूल दोनों के लिए प्रस्तुतियों में किया जाता है। यह एक संपूर्ण प्रेजेंटेशन ग्राफ़िक्स पैकेज है जो एक शानदार दिखने वाली प्रेजेंटेशन बनाने के लिए आवश्यक हर चीज़ के साथ आता है।

Some uses of PowerPoint :

a. Photo Slideshow

b. Create a digital portfolio

c. Animating with PowerPoint

d. Create tutorials

e. make info graphics

f. Project Planning

g. Digital storytelling

h. Making interactive quizzes

i. Video Creation

j. Creating Brochures and Flyers

 

Features of PowerPoint

a. PowerPoint saves time and energy—once the presentation has been created, it is easy to update or modify.

b. PowerPoint files is portable and can be shared easily with students and colleagues.

c. PowerPoint supports multimedia, such as video, audio, images, and text.

d. Visual Impact - Making your presentation more interesting through the use of multimedia can help to improve the audience's focus.

e. Flexibility.

 

 

THE EXTENSION OF ANY MS POWERPOINT FILE IS “.ppt or .pptx”

 

Working with MS PowerPoint

Uses of different types of MS PowerPoint Tabs or functions

File Tab

File tab option is used to create a new document.

It is also used to save, open and close a particular file.

Print a document.

And also see recent files or document with the help of “recent” tab.

Home Tab

Clipboard >>

Home tab is used to copy and cut the selected text of part of the document.

Also paste the copy text into your file.

With the help of “Format Painter” option you can copy formatting from one place and apply it to another.

Slides >>

New Slide – for insert new slide in file.

Layout – use different types of slide layout – Title and content, picture with caption, blank slides etc.

Font >>

With this tab you can change the font, font size, font color, font style, font case etc.

 

 

Paragraph >>

With this option you can create or change bulleted list, numbered list, increase and decrease indent, alphabetize the selected text or numerical data.

You can also change the alignment of text – left, center, right and justify.

Also change the line spacing.

Drawing >>

With this option we create drawing with the shapes option

Arrange the object and shapes with this option like – bring to front, send to back, bring forward and group, ungroup, regroup etc.

Shapes fill color, shapes outline, shape effects.

Editing >>

With this option you can find and replace the text in a document.

Insert Tab

Tables >>

With this option you can work with tables, insert tables, draw tables.

Images >>

With this option we can insert picture from computer, insert clipart and screenshot also.

Illustrations >>

With this option we can insert picture, photo, clipart in a word file.

Create shapes like, rectangle, oval, line, triangle, star etc.

Insert smartArt graphics, charts and take screenshot.

Text >>

Insert text box into a document, insert wordArt, Header & Footer, Date & Time.

Symbols >>

Insert equation and symbols into a document.

Media >>

Insert video and audio in a document.

Design Tab

Page Setup >>

With this option we can set Page Setup and slide orientation.

Themes >>

With this option we can change the themes of slides.

We can change the color of slides theme, change font,

Background Styles >>

With this option we can change the background styles and also format background.

Transitions

Transitions to This Slide >>

With this option we can change the transition of slides and also add effects in transition.

Timing >>

With this option we can change or set the sound, time duration and advance slide option like on mouse click or time after – set the time.

Animations

Animation >>

With this option we can set or change the animation and also set the animation effects option.

And also set time duration.

Slide Show

Start Slide Show >>

With this option we can set the start slide show – from beginning, from current slide

Set Up >>

With this option we can set the set up Slide show, hide slide.

Review

Proofing >>

Check Spelling, use thesaurus for check word meaning.

Comments >>

With this option insert new comment, edit comment, delete comment.

View

Presentation Views >>

With this option we can change the views of slides like – normal, slide sorter, notes page, reading view.

Show >>

With this option we can show and hide – ruler, gridlines and guides.

Color/Grayscale >>

With this option we can change the color of slide, color, gray scale, black and white.

 

Formatting and Animation in PowerPoint

- We can use font with different types of font faces, font size and font colors for formatting a PowerPoint slide or document.

- We can change slide background with different types of options like – solid fill, gradient fill, picture or texture fill, pattern fill.

- We can also use design tab to change or set the background pattern or design of a slide.

- We can add effects in a PowerPoint slides or file with the help of Transitions Tab and use different types of transition options like – fade, push, wipe, split, reveal, random bars, checkerboard, blinds, clock, cube, zoom etc.

- We can add animation in a PowerPoint slide or file with the help of Animations Tab and use different types of animation options like – appear, fly In, shape, wheel, random bars, zoom, spin, teeter, fill color.