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Greetings to all readers of my blog who have decided to learn how to correctly compose presentation slides. After reading this article, you will learn how to create a presentation on a computer or laptop for free, running under the Microsoft Windows operating system.

You will learn how to use PowerPoint (I will provide you step by step instructions), insert photos with music, patterns, animation transitions, text inserts, graphics, effects, etc. into them. Well then, let's get started!

What is PowerPoint and where to download it

So, let's start from the very beginning. PowerPoint program (pronounced " power point”) is provided free of charge by Microsoft to all users of its Windows operating system in a package called Microsoft office. It also includes other useful programs:

Word is a multifunctional text editor;
Excel is a handy application for creating tables with various calculations, charts, forecasting, etc.;
OneNote is a convenient electronic notebook;
Outlook is a professional program for working with calendar and mail;
Publisher is a useful tool for creating publications, a simple electronic publishing system.

PowerPoint, like other standard applications of the named package, is currently available in four versions, differing in the year of release.

You can download office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 and the developers provide wide range interface languages. So you can safely install a package of tools in Russian.

Historically, Windows 7 used the 2007 or 2010 software package as standard, while Windows 10 already had Office 2016. Although no one restricts users, they themselves can install the version they need.

If you follow the link https://products.office.com/ru-ru/products?tab=O-Home , you will be able to familiarize yourself with everything I have said on your own, and also, if necessary, immediately download the necessary applications or try them out online.

Note that the extended versions are paid. However, if you are a student or teacher, you can get specialized versions of the apps for free with an appropriate subscription. Great, right?

The beginning of the way

Now let's get down to creating power point slides. Before getting started, I would like to voice a few tips that will help you avoid most problems in the future.

Tip 1. If you don't know if the version of your application is compatible with the one installed on the device on which you will be presenting your work, then it's better to create everything in PowerPoint 2007. This version works great in both similar and newer versions of the product.

Tip 2. If the direction of the presentation is educational or scientific, then don't overdo it with animations and transitions. It is desirable, in general, to minimize or eliminate such effects. This will give your work seriousness and accuracy.

Tip 3. Be sure to consider the audience for which you are preparing a report. Depending on this, the number of slides, their design and content will vary.

Tip 4. Keep in mind that the same keyboard shortcuts work in all Office suite products. So if you want:

undo the action performed, then just hold down the key combination Ctrl + Z;
if you want to return - then Ctrl + Y;
And if you need to delete an object, then select it and click on "Delete".

Tip 5 If you are preparing a presentation for a speech, be sure to first think over your speech and immediately divide it into slides. As a result, it will be easier for you during the development phase.

Well, now let's launch PowerPoint!

Getting Started: Appearance Design

Will open before you main page, on the left of which a list of previous presentations will be displayed, and on the right - all kinds of templates.

You can choose "Blank Presentation", or you can familiarize yourself with all the templates you like and immediately create a document with design.

In the second case, your actions will look like this:

Click on the pattern you like;
Choose from the proposed colors you like;
Click on the "Create" icon.

A window will appear in front of your eyes with the first slide for the title. The left sidebar will display all the created slides.

If we consider the first case, then step by step actions will change a bit:

Adjusting markup and text

Initially, all slides are created with standard markup. Moreover, the first slide always has a special placement of text fields.

To change the markup of objects, you need to:

Go to the "Home" tab on the toolbar;
Find the "Slides" section in it;
Click on "Layout". You will see a window with all possible standard markups provided by the application. Select one of them by clicking on it with the cursor. If you don't like any of them, then change the current position of the objects manually. This is possible by moving windows, changing their size and shape, and adding new elements.

So, how to add, for example, a new entry? Everything is simple. Go to the "Insert" tab in the toolbar. Everything that is offered here can be added to your work. These are tables, graphs, drawings, photographs, diagrams, figures, etc.

Click on the last one. In shapes, the first icon is the label. If you select it, then you can add a text box to your slide.

To change the text, you just need to enter your own instead of standard inscriptions. And you can correct the style using the "Font" section on the main tab.

Adding a new slide with a graphic file

Now you have the title of the first page and it's time to create a new slide. To do this, in the main tab, click on the “Create Slide” icon to immediately add a page with default markup, or click on the named words, next to which a down arrow is displayed. All the same markup examples will open in front of you, with one of which a new page will be created.

Immediately in the second object with the words "Slide Text" you are prompted to insert one of the objects: a table, a chart, SmartArt, a picture, a picture from the Internet, or a video.

In our case, you just need to click on the “Picture” icon, after which a explorer will open in front of you to select the desired image.

Interestingly, in PowerPoint 2016, the program offers you several ideas for decorating the insertion of graphic files. Do not be lazy and look there, sometimes you can find really worthwhile solutions.

Insert background music

To bring your slide show to life with an audio file, simply go to the Media section on the Insert tab. It is located on the right side. There you are prompted to insert a video, audio or screen recording.

We need sound, which means we select Sound -> Audio files on the computer ... / Record sound ....

Then decide how the audio track will be played: automatically or by clicking on the slide (special button). You can also make sound settings in the tab that appears called "Working with sound".

Inserting a video file

So, we already have a slide with a title and a slide with an image and music. Now create the third slide where we will place the video.

The described program (2016 version) allows its users to insert a video track from five sources:

After choosing one of the methods for inserting an object, you can adjust appearance, location, launch method, etc. the last one.

Animated slide transitions

Now we come to the most interesting. PowerPoint offers many different transitions from slide to slide. They can be both ordinary (simple flipping) and more complex (crack effect, origami, etc.).

Of course, Windows 7 with its version of PowerPoint 2007 has a lot less different interesting transitions between presentation pages. Therefore, you simply cannot find the last named types of effects in versions released earlier than 2016.

So, in order for the slide to appear interestingly in front of the viewers, it is necessary:

On the ribbon with tools, go to the "Transitions" tab;
Select the first page of the presentation;
In the "Transition to this slide" section are all kinds of effects. Select one of them by clicking on it with the mouse button, and the transition preview will immediately work;
In the "Slide Show Time" section, which is located on the right, adjust the sound settings, transition duration in seconds, etc.;
Do the previous steps for all other slides if you want to set different types transitions or other settings. You can also in the section named in the previous step, click on "Apply to all" and then all slides will replace each other in the same way;
To view the result of the work done, go to the "Slideshow" tab and click on the first icon - "From the Beginning".

Let's start with PowerPoint 2007- one of the best programs to create and conduct presentations.

Presentation , by definition, is a set of color slide pictures, often with text and audio accompaniment, that reveal a specific topic. Preparing presentations is a very responsible process. Presentations are now increasingly used for seminars and webinars, for various conferences and reports, for the presentation of new products and services, for business and education.

Presentations can be made using various programs such as Harvard Graphics or Lotus Freelance, but the most popular at present is Microsoft's PowerPoint program.

PowerPoint provides the user with such powerful drawing and text tools, such animation and design capabilities, that you can do almost anything in it.

A PowerPoint 2007 presentation is a .pptx file. This file is essentially a set of slides with special effects that accompany the display of various drawings and text on the screen. Also, in this file, you can store a summary and presentation plan, which will be seen only by the one who conducts the presentation.

You can find the PowerPoint 2007 program in the same way as through the menu Start. Naturally, you must have Microsoft Office 2007 pre-installed.

So go to the menu Start - All Programs , find the folder Microsoft office, and choose the item Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 .

You can make a shortcut to this program on your desktop. To create a shortcut, left-click on this item and drag it to the desktop. Before releasing the mouse button, click the button alt. While holding the button, release the mouse button. The label will be created.

Interface PowerPoint programs 2007 is similar to the interface of other programs from the Microsoft Office suite. For example, as in other programs, in the upper left corner there is a round button Office. To make a new presentation, press this button and then select Create. Then click on the option New presentation , and press the button Create .

You can also choose a template for your future presentation - after selecting the item Create in the left column you can find the item Slides with decoration (background) . Choose the option that suits you best and click Download. A new presentation will be created with the background from the template you selected.

By default, new slides with layout will be created Title slide - this is a slide with prepared places for the table of contents and for the text. If you prefer text and pictures to be put where you want, you can choose the layout Empty slide .

You can change the layout of the slide through the command ribbon at the top. You need to go to tab. home, in the command group Slides choose a team Layout, and choose a layout Empty slide.

You can do the same through the context menu. Right click on the slide and select Layout - Blank Slide .

Then you can add pictures and text using the tab Insert. When you click on this tab, you will see a list of all the elements that you can add to the slide: picture, clip, text, WordArt and others.

To add a picture, click Insert - Drawing , select the file on your computer, and click the Insert button.

If you are looking for your presentation, for example, using Google or Yandex search, it is not at all necessary to upload all these pictures to your computer. You can, of course, right-click on the picture, select Save picture as , and upload to yourself, and then put into the presentation. But you can do it even easier: right-click on the picture on the Internet, select the item Copy picture , then right-click on the presentation slide, and select Insert. The picture will appear on the slide.

You can insert a clip - this is the name of the pictures from the library of Microsoft Office. Click Paste - Clip, then in the right column that appears, write in the field Search your keyword related to the topic of the presentation and click the button To begin. After that, click on the picture you like, and it will appear on the slide.

Can you paste Inscription or object word art. Although the buttons are different, they are essentially the same. Text can be formatted so that it becomes a WordArt object, and vice versa, if you remove all formatting from WordArt, it becomes plain text.

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How to use PowerPoint

Good day friends! In this description, I would like to introduce you to the wonderful program Powerpoint2007.

Here we will talk about how to use Powerpoint 2007 to create necessary presentations to make them look good and attractive.

From this text you can learn:

1. Why you need a Powerpoint program

2. What is step by step plan how to create presentations with this program

Microsoft Office PowerPoint2007 is on your computer device, depending, of course, on the version you have installed Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010. We're talking about PowerPoint2007 here.

Click on the "Start" key, select "All Programs", then Microsoft Office and finally, select Microsoft Office Powerpoint2007.

So why do you need Powerpoint2007? Needed to indicate key points your speech or presentation.

There will be no need to remember all necessary information, which you present, as the listener views your slides instantly.

Presentations, of course, are not replaceable in the case when it is too difficult to explain in words, and it is necessary to show everything visually. This type of presentation includes tables, diagrams or maps, diagrams.

Opening Powerpoint2007, we see:

1. Office key.

This button is located at the top (in the left corner), click on it, in the pop-up window you can see a number of bookmarks.

The first tab is called “create”, if we click on it, the following window opens for us. Here, by default, there is a "new presentation" button. We can also choose ready-made templates, from required document. If we click on the "presentations" button, then we are offered a certain number of presentations. Choose one, I chose "Business presentations".

Click on the theme, a window with templates opens, where you can select any template you want. Click on the template. Your selected template will appear on the right, here the size of this template is 298KB,

we press the “download” button and we see that our template has been downloaded to us, on our computer device.

2. Open - the ability to open your already prepared lists of presentations.

save the presentation in PowerPoint 2007.

The PowerPoint show that opens when you start Slide Show or PowerPoint2003 Show. And also there is an option to create your own slides in a format, for example, PDF or save in some other formats.

If you press the key to save to other formats,

then a dialog box opens, where in the drop-down line "File type", you can save the file both in PowerPoint and in web page format, as a picture. It is very comfortable.

5. Prepare - here you can encrypt your presentation with a password so that no one else can open it except you.

6. Send - here you can send your presentation using Email as an attachment calculated for PDF or XPS format and send as a fax.

7. Publish - prepare the work and save to any disk, save the materials in the slide library, open the material in Microsoft Office Word, save the presentation somewhere on the document management server, create a new web site for the presentation.

Consider now the PowerPoint options

Here we press the settings, we will open a quick access window.

What to do here? Here you can transfer the quick action command to the right window, which is necessary for work, by right-clicking on the command, we see how it moved to the right side.

This command is displayed at the very top. So I transferred the command - “draw a table”.

This is the place where you can move the commands you need to work. Here we have analyzed the commands located in the office button of this PowerPoint program.

The next thing we will disassemble is the tool ribbon. When opening PowerPoint, the default is always the Home tab, divided into tool columns.

Here, for example, is the "Clipboard" column. Commands are provided here: cut or copy and create a format according to the example.

Another column "Slides". Here you can also create some new slides and change the layout, restore, delete slides.

The third column is "Font".

The same operations that are in Word are provided here: make bold text, write in italics, underline, you can also increase or decrease the font or text shadow.

Fourth column "Paragraph". Here you can set a command that will make the text bulleted or align the text (for example, in the center), as well as left or right, raise or lower the level of the list, distribute text over two or more columns, convert text into a picture.

Fifth column "Drawing"

Here you can insert some shapes, for example, such as circles, rectangles, arrows.

Arrangement of objects on the slide, style finished presentation. Outlines, fills and shape effects are made to make your presentation work the most memorable. The next sign is express styles. There is a wide selection of styles to choose from, with the help of experts that you will use for your presentations.

The sixth column is "Editing". The “find” command means that if you need to replace some words in the text with others, then press the “find” button.

Then click "replace", you get a line in which you enter the word that you want to change.

And last operation- "Text selection".

In the toolbar, look at the "Insert" tab. It will also be divided into columns.

1. Illustrations

2. Table

5. Multimedia clips.

In the "table" section, you can select any table that you like. By clicking on the table, the so-called table designer comes to you. We can choose table styles or create them ourselves.

The next toolbar tab is the "Illustration Section" insert. Here you can insert pictures, upload or paste a clip from your computer device, create photo albums based on pictures. Insert shapes, insert a SmartArt graphic, insert a chart, to present or compare data.

Let's move on to the next column "Connections". Here you can create a link to web pages. If the link is made active, then (when clicking it) we will be able to go to a web page or to any slide. This is the most convenient way to present.

In the "Text" column, you can insert objects or insert an inscription, select a font, select the date or time of the current slides, add a slide number, insert characters that are not on the keyboard.

And the last column is "Media Clip". Here you can insert animated clips, as well as add music from CDs or record from a microphone.

Ribbon "Design". Here we see the design for the themes of your slide. You can choose it by following the link, or press "find on the Internet." Ready here interesting samples, which can be used for your way of presenting. You can also customize the color, effect, fonts.

The Animation ribbon offers you pre-made animation effects, all you have to do is select or customize them to fit your slide structure. Here you can also make settings for the animation of lines, pictures, letters.

Slide Show ribbon. The ribbon is also divided into a number of columns:

1. We start the slide show, where you set up your start of all slides from the very beginning (that is, from the current slide) or an arbitrary slide show.

2.Setting. Here you can set up a slide show - showing them in full screen mode. And the “hide slide” option hides the current slide in the presentation. Also, recording from a microphone is configured. "Time Adjustment" adjusts each slide in time. There is also a setting for automatic switching of slides.

3. Licensing. Adjust spelling in PowerPoint so that your presentation does not contain spelling errors. Also here you can see reference materials. There is also a key to protect the presentation.

4.View. Here, by default, the slideshow view in the "normal" mode is selected. Here you can, by pressing the "slide sorter" key, change the location of the slides. You can put a grid, set a ruler.

On this this topic"How to use PowerPoint" for today I finish. You have figured out step by step all the tabs of our PowerPoint, and how to do the job, I will write to you in my other topic. Please leave your comment if this article is useful. Bye.

2.3.2. Creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

After launching the PowerPoint 2007 application window, you can start creating your presentation. All ways to create new presentations are displayed in the Create Presentation dialog box. Let's look at three main ways to create presentations: presentation based on installed templates, installed themes, and empty templates.

Create a new presentation based on installed templates. To create a new presentation based on the installed templates, you need to open PowerPoint application 2007, click on the "Office" button, and select "New" from the menu that opens. In the "Create Presentation" dialog box that opens, select "Installed Templates". From the list of built-in templates that appears, select the one that is required for the presentation.

For example, let's choose the topic "Introducing PowerPoint 2007". A finished presentation will open, consisting of 18 slides made in the same style. The complete presentation (all slide thumbnails) is displayed in the Slides/Outline area of the PowerPoint window (Figure 1).

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It should be noted that the content on the slides is placed in placeholders. For example, the title slide has two text placeholders: one for the title Introduction to PowerPoint 2007 and one for the subtitle Overview of what's new.

You can replace the contents of these text placeholders with your own title and subtitle. To do this, place the cursor in the text field and enter new text. Next, go to the second slide. This slide uses various placeholders whose content can also be replaced necessary information. Subsequent slides of the presentation are edited in the same way.

If you need to change the design of the slides, then you should follow the following actions: On the Design tab, in the Themes group, select the desired theme and click on it.

Besides, in open presentation you can remove or add new slides, replace their markup, and you can change their order. Optionally, you can add animation effects for text and slide objects, as well as slide-to-slide transition effects. After creating a new presentation based on the installed templates, it must be saved.

Create a new presentation based on established themes. In this case, in the "Creating a presentation" window, select the "Installed themes" item. Next, from the existing templates, select the theme that is required for the presentation. For example, select the theme "Official" and click on the "Create" button. An open presentation based on the selected topic contains only the title page (Figure 2).

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This Title page contains markup, i.e. two text placeholders (for the title and subtitle) and formatted in the "Official" style. Next, add the desired content to the title slide text placeholders.

The rest of the slides the user must add on their own. To do this, the presentation creator can select slide layouts with the required markup from the list of built-in layouts, which opens when you click on the "Create Slide" arrow (Figure 3).

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In the drop-down list, slide layouts have different layouts, but are made in the same style, which corresponds to the selected theme "Official" (Fig. 4) .

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After adding a second slide, you only need to fill in placeholders in it, for example, with text, pictures, tables, or other objects. Subsequent presentation slides are created similarly. If necessary, you can replace the layout of the current slide by clicking the Layout icon in the Slides group on the Home tab and selecting the layout with the desired layout.

Thus, to insert a subsequent slide with the required placeholders, you must use the create slide icon, and to replace the layout of the current slide, you must use the "Layout" icon.

Create presentations from blank templates. For this case, in the "Creating a presentation" window, select the "Empty and recent" item. Next, click on the "New Presentation" icon, and then on the "Create" button. The application window will open, displaying "Title slide" by default with two placeholder texts (for title and subtitle).

To create slides for a new presentation, you can use either layouts with standard markup or layouts without markup, i.e. empty slides. The list of layouts that opens when you click on the "Layout" button in the "Slides" group on the "Home" tab is shown in Fig. 5.

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To create a presentation based on a blank slide, click on "Blank Slide". The title slide with two placeholders that is displayed in the main application window will be replaced with a blank slide, i.e. slide without markings.

In this case, the user must independently create the markup and design of the slides. Therefore, the method of creating a presentation based on empty templates should be used only when the user clearly understands the appearance of the presentation being created (design) and its content.

A presentation is a great way to make your presentation more understandable and interesting to the public. Now presentations are created mainly in the PowerPoint program that comes with the kit. office programs from Microsoft. In this article, you can get acquainted with a small step-by-step instruction on how to create presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. The article will be relevant for PowerPoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Step 1. Launch PowerPoint.

To start creating a presentation, simply launch PowerPoint. This can be done using a desktop shortcut.

If there is no shortcut for PowerPoint on your desktop, you can launch the program by searching the Start menu. To do this, open the Start menu and search for "PowerPoint".

Step number 2. We choose the design of the future presentation.

After PowerPoint is launched, you can immediately start creating a presentation. It is best to start with design, for this go to the "Design" tab. On this tab you will see big list ready-made presentation designs. Choose one of the available options.

To the right of the list of pre-made designs, there are Colors, Fonts, Effects, and Background Styles buttons. With these buttons, you can adjust the selected design to your requirements. You can change the color and font of the text, the background color of the presentation, and add additional effects.

If ready-made designs are not enough for you, then you can search the Internet for other templates for PowerPoint presentations.

Step #3. Create slides.

After choosing a design, you can start creating slides for your future presentation. This is done using the "Create Slide" button, which is located on the "Home" tab. Click the down arrow below the Create Slide button to open a menu of available slides.

In the menu that opens, you will see several types of slides. These are the Title Slide, the Title and Object slide, the Section Title slide, the Two Objects slide, and so on. Choose the type of slide that suits you and click on it with the mouse. For example, we will create a title and object slide. This will result in a new slide with a title at the top of the slide and an empty box at the bottom.

Step number 4. Filling in the created slides.

After creating a slide, you can fill it with information. To get started, you can change the title of the slide, to do this, double-click on the inscription "Slide Title" and enter another text.

After the title is entered, you can fill in the empty field under the title. If there should be text under the heading, then simply click on the empty field and enter the desired text.

If there should be some other information under the title, for example, a video or a picture, then for this you need to use the buttons that are located in the middle of this field. There are six buttons available for inserting tables, charts, SmartArt, photos, pictures from your PowerPoint library, and videos.

When creating presentations in PowerPoint, photos are most often inserted, so we will consider this option. In order to insert a photo from a file, you need to click on the button with the image of the photo. After that, a window for selecting a photo will appear. Select the desired photo and click on the "Insert" button.

The photo of your choice will then appear below the title of the slide.

Thus, you have created a PowerPoint presentation from one slide. To add another slide, return to the Home tab, click the New Slide button again, and add another slide to your presentation. After that, you can fill in another slide with information. Repeat this procedure until the presentation is ready.

Step #5: Preview your presentation.

In order to evaluate the created presentation, go to the "Slide Show" tab and click on the "From Beginning" button there. After that, the presentation will open in full screen, and you can see how it will look in its finished form.

You can also click on the "From Current Slide" button. In this case, the playback of the presentation will not start from the beginning, but from the frame where you stopped while working with the presentation.

Step #6: Save the presentation.

After the presentation is created, it must be saved. To do this, open the "File" menu and select the "Save As" option.

As a result, a window for saving the file will open. In this window, you need to select a folder and click on the "Save" button. This way you will get the file PowerPoint presentations in PPTX format, which you can then open and continue creating your presentation.

If your presentation is already ready to be shown, then you need to additionally save it in a different format. To do this, you need to use the menu "File - Save As" in the same way, but before saving, change the format to "PowerPoint Demonstration".

After such saving, you will receive a file in PPSX format. The advantage of this format is that the presentation starts playing immediately after opening it, while the interface of the PowerPoint program does not even appear. But, files in PPSX format cannot be edited, so the presentation must be saved in both PPTX and PPSX formats.