2. 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
3. Starting Microsoft Powerpoint
2013
Select the Start menu
Select All Programs
Select Microsoft Office
Select Microsoft PowerPoint
2013
Start Menu
4. Microsoft Powerpoint 2013
View
When Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 starts, it opens in normal view and shows
the following screen:
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.
Slides Tab
Slide Pane
Notes
Pane
5. 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
6. 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.
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.
Ribbon
7. 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.
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
Status
bar
8. 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
9. 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
10. Editing Text
Use your mouse to select the text you want to change.
Press Delete
Type your new text.
11. Formatting Text
The commands commonly used to format text are included in the Font
group on the Home tab:
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.
Font
12. 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.
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.
Home Layout
13. 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.
14. 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.
