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Sneak Peek
To start a new presentation in MS PowerPoint, follow these steps:
1. Start Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Click on the File tab.
2. Click on New and select Blank Presentation under Available Templates and Themes.
3. Click on Create.
INSERTING INFORMATION IN THE PRESENTATION
Information that can be inserted in the presentation can be either textual or in the form of an object. Let us
learn how to insert these in the presentation.
Entering Text in a Slide
After designing the layout of a slide, information or text has to be entered. In slides, there are pre-defined
boxes that prompt ‘Click to add title / text’, etc.
Step 1: Click in the text box to start typing. If the text takes more than one line, Impress automatically wraps
the text to the next line.
Step 2: To end typing, click outside the text box.
If it is required to display the text in more than one text box, then a new text box has to be added.
To add a new text box in the slide:
Step 1: Select the ‘Text tool’ button from the ‘Drawing’ toolbar. The mouse pointer changes to (+) sign.
Step 2: Place the cursor to the position on the slide where the new ‘Text Box’ is to be added.
Step 3: Drag the pointer to create the text box.
Inserting Object from other Applications
In ‘Impress’, it is possible to insert text/pictures/charts/tables from other applications such as Writer, Calc, etc.
Step 1: Copy the object to be inserted, then place the cursor where it has to be pasted.
Step 2: Click on the ‘Paste’ button from standard toolbar or press ‘Ctrl + V’ from the keyboard.
SAVING THE PRESENTATION
To save the created presentation:
Step 1: Click on the ‘Save’ or ‘Save As’ option from the ‘File’ menu. [Or] Click on the ‘Save’ button from the
standard toolbar.
If the presentation is being saved for the first time, the Save As dialog box appears where the user has to
enter the name of the file. All Impress files have an extension as .odp .
Step 2: Select the folder where the presentation has to be saved.
Step 3: Type the desired file name.
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