MICROSOFT POWERPOINT Slide Sorter

o Presentation tools are important especially
when talking to a large audience. Such tools help
the speaker and the audience alike during the
course of the speech.
o There are also other tools used for presentations,
such as the slide projector and the overhead
projector. A slide projector is used to project
photographic slides onto a screen. An overhead
projector, on the other hand, uses transparencies
in place of photographic slides
o Today, the most common presentation tool is the
computer in conjunction with a presentation
program. It is used to make dynamic
presentations, a quality that is lacking in
blackboards, overhead projectors, and slide
projectors.
PowerPoint
o is a software package designed to create
electronic presentations consisting of a series of
separate pages or slides
BASIC FEATURES
- Slides are arranged in vertical order from top to
bottom. You can drag slides to rearrange. You
can also delete or duplicate slides.
Slide Template
- This is the biggest part where you can start and
put your design, animation, sound & effects.
Animation Pane
- This will display the animation functions you use
in your presentation. You can also rearrange the
animation and effects according to your own
design.
Add Note Bar
- This is where you can put additional notes about
your presentation. The audience will not seem
what you have put in your Note Bar
Status Bar
- Contains brief information about your
presentation such as number of slides and the
number of slide you are currently working.

TIPS ON CREATING AN EFFECTIVE POWERPOINT

PRESENTATION

Minimize

- Keep slide counts to minimum to maintain a

clear message and to keep the audience
attentive.
- Presentation is just a visual aid.

Clarity
Title Bar
- Avoid being fancy, use a font style that is easy to
- You will see the file name of your document here
read.
- Make sure that it is big enough to be read by the
Quick Access Toolbar
audience
- This toolbar consists of a set of commands that is
Simplicity
independent on the tab of the ribbon and you
can also add commands in this toolbar.
- Use bullets or short sentences.
- Use the 6 x 7 rule
Tab Menu

Visuals
- Relates to the type of activity; tab menus are file,
home, insert, design, transition, animation, slide
- Use graphics but not too many.
show, review and view
- Instead of using table, use graphs or charts.

Ribbon Menu

- Position under the tab menus. This menu

contains all the command buttons that you need
in working with MS PowerPoint.