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PowerPoint is a presentation program. It creates visual "slides" to accompany the oral part of a presentation. It can do more than that, but that is the main use. When you have PowerPoint going, look at the parts of the screen. We will be switching around between the outline view, the slide view, and the task pane. To start, we recommend always using the Outline view to get the first draft of your presentation. Click on the Outline view tab on the left side of the screen. Let's enter the title of the presentation: "Technology - Curriculum Integration". Now to add in the "by line" (the sub title or name of the presentation author), press ENTER. This will move the cursor down to the next line. Next press the Tab key once. This will move it over to the right. Type in your name. (Note: if you want another way to move the cursor to the right and left, choose the View Menu --> Toolbars. Then choose Outlining. This places a toolbar to the left of the screen. Click on the green arrow pointing right to move the cursor to the right. The left arrow move the arrow to the left.) Now we want to add in the other "slides" in the presentation. To move the cursor back to the left after typing in your name, first press ENTER. Then hold the "Shift" key down and press "Tab" (Shift-Tab). The cursor should now be lined up with the first slide. Type in the slide title, "What is Technology?" Then press ENTER, press the "Tab" key to move the cursor over to the right, then type in the four bullet points that go on this slide: Computers Cameras Video tapes PDAs After typing the last bullet point, "PDAs", press ENTER and then "Shift-Tab" to move back to the left. Use ENTER to create new slides, and use Tab and Shift-Tab to move the cursor right and left. The finished slide show in the outline view will look like this:
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PowerPoint Tutorial

PowerPoint is a presentation program. It creates visual "slides" to accompany the oral part of a presentation. It can do more than that, but that is the main use.

When you have PowerPoint going, look at the parts of the screen. We will be switching around between the outline view, the slide view, and the task pane.

To start, we recommend always using the Outline view to get the first draft of your presentation. Click on the Outline view tab on the left side of the screen. Let's enter the title of the presentation: "Technology - Curriculum Integration".

Now to add in the "by line" (the sub title or name of the presentation author), press ENTER. This will move the cursor down to the next line. Next press the Tab key once. This will move it over to the right. Type in your name. (Note: if you want another way to move the cursor to the right and left, choose the View Menu --> Toolbars. Then choose Outlining. This places a toolbar to the left of the screen. Click on the green arrow pointing right to move the cursor to the right. The left arrow move the arrow to the left.)

Now we want to add in the other "slides" in the presentation. To move the cursor back to the left after typing in your name, first press ENTER. Then hold the "Shift" key down and press "Tab" (Shift-Tab). The cursor should now be lined up with the first slide. Type in the slide title, "What is Technology?" Then press ENTER, press the "Tab" key to move the cursor over to the right, then type in the four bullet points that go on this slide:

Computers
Cameras
Video tapes
PDAs

After typing the last bullet point, "PDAs", press ENTER and then "Shift-Tab" to move back to the left. Use ENTER to create new slides, and use Tab and Shift-Tab to move the cursor right and left. The finished slide show in the outline view will look like this: