Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint 

Microsoft PowerPoint is powerful presentation software developed by Microsoft. It is a standard component of the company's Microsoft Office suite software, and is bundled together with Word, Excel and other office productivity tools. The program uses slides to convey information rich in multimedia. The term slide refers to the old slide projector, which this software effectively replaces.

In order to make the presentation use Microsoft PowerPoint.

Using Microsoft PowerPoint can be a great way to give a high quality presentation to the higher ups in your office.

1) Adding Smart Art

Don’t confuse Smart Art with the similarly named Word Art. Where Word Art just allows you to display text using a wide variety of different formats and effects, Smart Art is a comprehensive and flexible business diagram tool that greatly improves upon the ‘Diagram Gallery’ feature found in previous versions of Office.

2) Inserting Shapes

If you need to include some sort of diagram in your presentation, then the quickest and easiest way is probably to use Smart Art. However, it is important to be able to include shapes independently of Smart Art and worth being familiar with the various Drawing Tool format options.

3) Inserting an Image

Here are two content type icons which appear in new content Placeholders for inserting pictures. You can Insert Picture from File or Insert Clip Art. Alternatively, the Illustrations group of the Insert ribbon tab includes the same two tools. In addition, PowerPoint 2010 has a new ‘Screenshot’ option that allows you to capture an entire window or part of a window for inclusion on a slide. You can also copy any image and just paste it directly to a slide.

4) Slide Transitions

Properly used, slide transitions can be make your presentations clearer and more interesting and, where appropriate, more fun. Badly used, the effect of slide transitions can be closer to irritating or even nauseating. Simple animation effects are often used to add interest to bullet point text. Much more extreme animation effects are available but, in most cases, should be used sparingly if at all two main kinds of animation are available in a PowerPoint presentation: the transition from one slide to the next and the animation of images/text on a specific slide.

5) Adding Animations

Whereas the transition effects are limited to a single event per slide, animations can be applied to every object on a slide – including titles and other text boxes. Many objects can even have animation applied to different components, for example each shape in a SmartArt graphic, each paragraph in a text box and each column in a chart. Animations can be applied to three separate ‘events’ for each object:

Entrance – how the object arrives on the slide

Emphasis – an effect to focus attention on an object while it is visible

Exit – how the object disappears from the slide.

To apply an animation effect, choose the object or objects to be animated, and then choose Animation Styles or Add Animation from the Animations toolbar.

Where an animation is applied to an object with different components (for instance a SmartArt graphic made up of several boxes), the Effect Options tool becomes available to control how each component will be animated. So for example, your animation can be used to introduce elements of an organization chart to your slide one by one.  Learn more http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-PowerPoint-Presentation