Why do I need the PowerPoint tool? How do I use this program?

Today we will deal with the PowerPoint program. How to use it and why is it needed? We will consider a step-by-step plan for creating a high-quality presentation and answer many other questions.

To begin with, this software product allows us to create vivid presentations. We will review the 2007 version of PowerPoint. How to use this tool, will understand and the elderly person, and the schoolboy.

But you need to know that many even experienced users do not know all the PowerPoint capabilities, our task is to familiarize you with the program from all sides.

Introduction

The program for creating a computer presentation is called PowerPoint. How to use it and what features does it have in itself? To begin with, all presentations are saved in files with the .RTD extension. And the project itself is a set of ordered slides.

To create a high-quality presentation, you do not have to do the slide design, as the program already provides a certain set of templates for many topics. What is a template? These are already designed slides, where we need to add text, graphics, perhaps, musical accompaniment. If you like the template, but the color you prefer the other, then this is not a problem, you can change the color scheme to your liking.

What will make the presentation more attractive? Quality images, selected in the theme, musical and animation effects. We have already said that the work is very easy and exciting with the product PowerPoint. How to use it, anyone can understand. It is only a little experiment.

Capabilities

We now turn to the question of how to use Microsoft PowerPoint, or rather, we will determine the capabilities of the software product. Originally it was a program that allowed to view slides, the modern version can not only create slides in the classical sense, but also organize electronic presentations without losing multimedia capabilities.

Areas in which the presentation is used are quite wide, the main thing that you need to remember is the thesis and visibility. She must meet these two qualities. What does this mean? The presentation should not look like a solid text, mark the main thing and supplement your words with multimedia, then the interest to your performance will not cool down.

What else you should pay attention to is the design, so as not to make the presentation boring and monotonous. Bring attention to bright images, animations and sound effects. One of the components of a quality presentation is graphics and tables. These components will help a large amount of information to be placed on one slide.

Many presentations have one drawback - it's static. Many PowerPoint features remain behind the scenes. The presentation will attract attention if you add an animation slide transition, insert interesting videos and so on. We suggest together to try to create a presentation, using as many features as possible.

Create a presentation

So, how to use PowerPoint? First, you need to prepare the right material for the presentation. Pay attention to the fact that we leave more information to oral speech, do not try to fit everything on the slides.

We open the program and choose the necessary design from the available in the collection, you can also make your own layouts, but this is more time consuming. Customize the color schemes, background and some other parameters. How to do it? Right-click on the empty slide and select the item in the context menu.

Now about insertions. Text can be copied from Word or directly from Internet sources. Do not forget to format it, bring the whole text of the presentation to a uniform form. You can embed images and videos in the same way as text, or use the "Insert" menu item. Pay attention to the menu at the top of the screen, everything is very clear. You can experiment with different transitions and effects of presentation objects.