The aim of this course is that you become a first class PowerPoint user by closely following all of
the lessons you will give your career a significant boost and will have every chance of success in the
future.
Sound exciting.
Well let's get started.
First things first let's go through the main tabs within PowerPoint and describe their content.
The first tab that we see on the ribbon is the file tab within the file tab.
We will find several basic commands such as Save save as open and close.
If we click on Info we will find the permissions section in which we can create a password for the document
once a password is chosen.
The user will have to type it in every time before opening the document under print.
We find all the options related to printing.
We can select whether we want to print all slides or just a specific part of the document how many slides
to be included in each page whether to use colors etc. If we click on options a dialog box opens we
are able to select some of the user interface options.
The type of proofing to be applied.
Saving options language options and advanced options in one of the next lessons we will dedicate some
time to the quick access toolbar which is an important instrument in PowerPoint.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the commands that are available within the Home tab.
It contains some of the most frequently used properties buttons such as cut copy and paste that can
transfer text data or objects within your files.
Most of the formatting options are included here as well.
You will find features such as font font size text color text alignment etc. within the Home tab we
can also find the very useful button a range which allows us to group items and align objects the Insert
tab will let you add objects to your slides you can insert things such as pictures and images by using
this tab.
It also allows you to add a number of items among which are shapes smart art.
Text boxes equations video and audio the next tab and the ribbon is the design tab.
It contains the basics slide formatting tools themes are an easy way to design a whole slideshow every
slide and the presentation will change to match the background font colors and effects that are preset
for each theme the good point about themes is that they are easy quick and make your presentation look
nice.
The bad point about themes is that there are only four or five really good ones to choose from and everyone
repeatedly uses them.
That is why I would suggest that you do as much of your theme designed by yourself as possible the slides
that we will create in this course would not use a ready theme in this tab.
You can also modify the background of the slides within your presentation.
The transitions tab enables users to change slide transitions set different properties or timings for
the transitions of their slides and generally adjust their preferences regarding slide transitions.
Here is the fun part of PowerPoint animations of objects you can make just about any object move in
and out and fly around in almost any way that you can imagine.
We will examine animations more closely in some of our next videos.
The next tab in the ribbon is the slide show tab.
It contains tools that control the slideshow presentation under the review tab.
You will find instruments that enable you to proofread your PowerPoint files.
In addition to that here are the comments and review functionalities.
The way you see your presentation can be customized in the view tab inside of this tab.
We have all the slide master options which we will see in detail later in the course here.
Users can also find the zoom color window and macro options.
This was our Quick overview of the structure of power points tabs in our next lesson.
We will go much deeper and examine in detail many of the advanced features of PowerPoint.
Thanks for watching.