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This document provides a tutorial for using Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. It covers starting PowerPoint, the different views available, how to create and format slides, add and modify slide content like text, and how to save, close, and manage presentations. The ribbon, status bar, slide layouts, and common formatting tools are described.

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Powerpoint 2013 Tutorial Final

This document provides a tutorial for using Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. It covers starting PowerPoint, the different views available, how to create and format slides, add and modify slide content like text, and how to save, close, and manage presentations. The ribbon, status bar, slide layouts, and common formatting tools are described.

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MICROSOFT

POWERPOINT 2013
TUTORIAL
Instructors: Mikayla, Ashley and Kate
Course 1
Tutorial Contents
 Starting Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
 Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 View
 Creating a Presentation
 The Ribbon
 The Status Bar
 Selecting a Slide Layout
 Adding, Editing and Formatting Text
 Adding, Deleting or Moving a Slide
 Saving a Document
 Closing a Document
Starting Microsoft Powerpoint
2013
 Select the Start menu

 Select All Programs

 Select Microsoft Office

 Select Microsoft PowerPoint


2013

Start Menu
Microsoft Powerpoint 2013
View
 When Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 starts, it opens in normal view and shows
the following screen:

Slides Tab

Slide Pane
Notes
Pane
 Slides tab - displays a pane on the left with thumbnail previews of your slides.
 Slide pane - displays the slide that is currently selected in the slides tab.
 Notes pane - displays speaker notes for the slide currently active in the slide
pane.
Creating a Presentation
 Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 also automatically opens a presentation as well.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the default presentation is named
"Presentation1".
 To start creating a presentation, click in a text box and begin typing your
text.

Text box
The Ribbon
 The Ribbon is the display you see at the top of the Microsoft PowerPoint window. It is
where you access commands for Microsoft PowerPoint.

Ribbon

 Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has hundreds of commands for working with different
presentations. To make it easier for users to find the commands they are looking for,
commands are organised onto eight main tabs:
 Home - commands for formatting presentations.
 Insert – to insert tables, clip art, pictures, links, headers and footers.
 Design - to change page setup, slide orientation, fonts and styles.
 Transitions - to add and effects to a slide.
 Animations - to add animation to text in a slide and to manage the order.
 Slide Show - tab to finalise the slide show details and timings.
 Review - tab to check spelling.
 View - access the different presentation views, to show and hide the ruler.
The Status Bar
 The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the window and shows basic
information about your presentation and lets you change your view settings.

Status
bar

 Slide number - shows the slide number.


 Notes pane button – shows the notes pane view.
 Comments pane button – shows the comments pane view.
 View controls - changes the view from normal, slide sorter, reading, and slide show.
 Zoom control - you can zoom in or out to make the presentation bigger or smaller on the
Selecting a Slide Layout
 When you start a new presentation or add a new slide, Microsoft
PowerPoint 2013 adds a slide with the default layout. If the layout isn’t the
one you want, you can change to another one of the built-in layouts. To
select a slide layout:
 From the HOME tab, in the Slides group, click Layout. A gallery opens showing the
layouts that can be selected.
 Click on the desired layout to apply the format to the current slide.

Home
Layout
Adding Text
 Click in the text box.
 When you click in the text box, it becomes active and the cursor indicates
where to enter your text.
 Make sure the cursor is located inside the textbox and begin typing your
text.

Text box
Editing Text
 Use your mouse to select the text you want to change.
 Press Delete
 Type your new text.
Formatting Text
 The commands commonly used to format text are included in the Font
group on the Home tab:

Font

 Font - choose selected fonts.


 Font size - change the size of your text.
 Bold - bold your text.
 Italic - italicise your text.
 Underline - underline your text.
 Strikethrough - strike through your text.
 Font Colour - change the colour of your text.
Adding, Deleting or Moving a
Slide
 Adding a Slide
 If you have lots of slides in your presentation,
click on the thumbnail of the slide you want to
insert the new slide after.
 In the home tab, in the Slides group, click New
slide to reveal a gallery of slide layouts. Home Layout
 In the layout gallery, click the layout for the
new slide. A blank slide of the specified layout
is added to the presentation.

 Deleting a Slide
 To delete a slide, select the slide in the slides
pane, right-click it, and select Delete Slide.

 Moving a Slide
 To change the order of slides in a
presentation:
 In the slides tab, click and drag the thumbnail
of a slide to its new position.
Saving a Document
 The first time you save a
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
presentation, you need to give it a
name and location. To do this:
 From the File menu, select
Save As.
 Now, select a location to save
your document.
 Type in the name for the file.
 Click Save.
Closing a Presentation
 To close a Microsoft PowerPoint
2013 presentation you can:
 click the "X" in the red box in the upper
right corner or
 from the FILE menu, select Close.

 When you close your presentation,


you will be asked to save if you
have made any changes since the
last time you saved.
Questions

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