Powerpoint is used to create electronic presentations. In this chapter you will learn basics of powerpoint document like creating a new presentation, creating a presentation using existing template, changing the color theme of powerpoint, printing etc.

1. create a new document
2. how to add title and subtitle
3. using existing templates
4. opening existing powerpoint document
5. how to open recent file
6. how to save existing file in new name
7. how to save new file in new name
8. how to close
9. how to go for help

Animation can help make a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation more dynamic, and help make information more memorable. The most common types of animation effects include entrances and exits. Too much animation can be distracting.

1. car enters from left
2. car exits to right
3. slow down the speed of car
4. car moves uphill
5. car enters from left and exits to right
6. car should start when it is clicked on
7. make the butterfly fly
8. ball moves after getting hit
9. explainer text boxes animation
10. reorder the animation - two balls
11. copy the animation using painter
12. text animation

Use themes to simplify the process of creating professional designer-looking presentations. Theme colors, fonts, and effects are part of themes. You will learn to use themes for a document and slides, create new color and font schemes

1. create a new document and apply theme
2. create a new slide based on theme
3. change color scheme of slide
4. change theme of existing slide
5. change font of slides
6. create new color scheme
7. create new font

Slide is an individual page that you can put pictures or words on and it is the first thing you will see on the top right hand corner once you open powerpoint.You will learn to create various kinds of slides and apply background effects.

1. insert blank slide
2. insert new slide based on layout
3. insert slide based on current slide layout
4. change layout of slide
5. change theme of slide
6. reset slide layout changes
7. apply predefined background to slide
8. apply solid color to slide background
9. apply texture to background of slide

Text is one of the core feature in powerpoint. There are many ways to create good looking text using shapes, bullets, wordarts and applying various kind of effects like 3D , reflection, shadow on them for catching user attention.

1. insert text box
2. change formatting of text box
3. convert all text to uppercase
4. apply bullets to text list
5. apply numbering to text list
6. apply reflection effect to text
7. apply shape fill to text
8. apply shape outline to text
9. apply shape style to text
10. apply text outline
11. apply texture fill effect to text
12. apply world art style to text
13. copy format using format painter
14. add header and footer to slides
15. add notes for speaker

Images or pictures are another way to make professional looking presenttaions. Powerpoint provides powerful image editing functionalities like remove background, apply corrections, artistic effects. You dont't need any other image editing tool to do most of the work.

1. 3-D pop effect
2. Artistic effects
3. Color effects
4. Corrections effects
5. Croping a picture into different shapes
6. How to give border to picture
7. Insert a screenshot
8. Picture effects
9. Picture styles
10. Removing background of the picture
11. Reset picture

Using Shapes you can draw many things on slides for better explanation. Clip art gives you a way to use resources like illustrations available offline or online on office.com. A SmartArt graphic is a visual representation of information and ideas like organisation chart, pyramids etc.

1. insert shapes
2. insert clip art in slide
3. modify shapes
4. add text in shape
5. change style of shape
6. reorder objects on slide
7. insert organisation chart - smart art
8. change color of organisation chart
9. change the layout of organisation chart
10. add people to organisation chart - smart art
11. convert to smart art

PowerPoint includes many different types of data charts and graphs including column charts, line graphs, pie charts, bar charts, area graphs, scatter graphs, stock charts, surface charts, doughnut charts, bubble graphs etc. Tables are used for better presentation of data.

1. insert a chart
2. edit chart data
3. change type of chart
4. change layout of chart
5. change style of table
6. insert table
7. insert table from excel
8. change style of table

Slide transitions are the animation-like effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during an on-screen presentation. A transition can be as simple as fading to the next slide or as complex as a flashy, eye-catching effect.

1. apply transition
2. preview the transition
3. increase the transition time
4. auto advance the slide show

You can use the sections to organize your slides, much like you would use folders to organize your files. You can use named sections to keep track of groups of slides. Slide Sorter view provides another view to look your slides. Notes provide a way to add notes for slides.

1. Using Reading view to preview presentation
2. Using slide sorter view to reorder the slides
3. using outline view to edit content of presentation
4. Using notes view to add or edit speaker notes to slides
5. Using different color view
6. Grouping slides in sections

A comment is a note that you can attach to a letter or word on a slide, or to a whole slide. Use comments when you want people to review and provide feedback on a presentation that you created, or when colleagues ask for your feedback on a presentation.

1. Performing spell check
2. Correcting similar incorrect words at once
3. Adding comment in slides
4. Changing backgroung of handouts
5. Print handout master
6. Vieweing all comments in presentation

Once your slide show is complete, you'll need to learn how to present it to an audience. PowerPoint offers several tools and features to help make your presentation smooth, engaging, and professional. You can plan your slide show for various scenarios.

1. Creating custom slide show
2. Rehearsing your presentation
3. Running your presentaion automatically
4. Running slide show from currrent slide
5. Using Laser in slide show
6. Using Pen in slides show
7. Hide slides during slide show
8. Recording your presentation slide show time
9. Running presentation without animation

Powerpoint document can be stored in various formats for different kind of use. It can be distributed as handouts which print many slides on a single page, print just the outlines for review, print in formats to save ink, and creating videos instead of presentations.

1. print outline of slides for review
2. print presentation in grayscale to save ink
3. print slides with notes
4. stray
5. saving presentation as a JPEG
6. saving presentation as a PDF
7. saving presentation as a video