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Unit 12: MS PowerPoint
Windows of Microsoft PowerPoint Notes
When you start PowerPoint, the workspace opens in Normal view. Normal view is divided
into 3 areas:
1. Slide Pane: Shows the full layout of a slide.
2. Slides Tab and Outline Tab: Shows slide thumbnails and text-only hierarchical versions
of the slides.
3. Notes Pane: Used to input text relevant a specific slide.
Other view include Slide Sorter view which shows thumbnails of the entire presentation and
Slide Show view where you preview your presentation.
Figure 12.1: Window of MS PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a closed source
commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of
the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple’s
Mac OS X operating system. The current versions are Microsoft
PowerPoint 2010 for Windows and 2011 for Mac.
12.1 Getting Started
If power point is already open or this box does not appear. Select New File from the bar.
Otherwise, open Power Point and it will prompt with a dialog box with four choices’
Whereas, the “Open an Already Existing Presentation” option enables you update/modify
an existing presentation, the other these options are explained in this section.
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