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Microsoft® PowerPoint

® 2010 Training

Create your first PowerPoint 2010

presentation

Course contents

• Overview: Create, prepare, share

• Lesson: Includes seven instructional movies

• Suggested practice tasks

• Test

• Quick Reference Card

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Overview: Create, prepare, share

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

In this course, you’ll learn to create a

PowerPoint 2010 presentation and

prepare to share it with your audience.

This includes creating slides and slide

text; choosing a layout and working

with pictures and themes; editing

content; creating speaker notes; and

more.

Course goals • Create slides and add text.

• Choose a slide layout, insert a picture, and apply

a theme.

• Change the size and position of slide elements.

• Format pictures, shapes, and other slide content.

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Course goals, cont. • Create speaker notes to use when you present.

• Share the presentation file for review.

• Print handouts and prepare to present.

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Create slides and add text

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Choose a layout, insert a picture, apply a theme

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Change the size and position of slide elements

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Add more slide content and use formatting

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Create speaker notes to use when you present

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Finalize your slides and notes

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Save, share, and print

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Point to the bottom of the video to see the video controls. Drag or point

along the progress bar to move forward or go back.

Suggestions for practice

1. Add a slide and text.

2. Choose a slide layout, insert a picture, and apply a

theme.

3. Size and position slide elements.

4. Add a video.

5. Create speaker notes.

6. Finalize your slides and notes pages; save and print.

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Online practice (requires PowerPoint 2010)

Test question 1

How do you insert a new slide? (Pick one answer.)

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

1. On the Insert tab, in the Images group, click

Screenshot.

2. Click the arrow under the slide icon on the Home tab,

next to New Slide.

3. Click Add New Slide on the Insert tab.

Test question 1

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

Clicking the arrow opens the Layout gallery, and the layout

you choose is applied to the new slide. Tip: You can also

click the New Slide button, and PowerPoint will insert a

slide that has the default Title and Slide layout applied to it.

How do you insert a new slide?

Answer:

2. Click the arrow under the slide icon on the Home tab,

next to New Slide.

Test question 2

A PowerPoint theme contains which of the following

three key elements? (Pick one answer.)

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

1. A group of special colors; fonts that look good in any

color; shadows.

2. Colored textures; fonts that are easy to see on a large

screen; shadows and reflections.

3. A color scheme; coordinating fonts; special effects such

as shadows, glows, bevels, reflections, 3-D, and more.

Test question 2

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A PowerPoint theme contains which of the following

three key elements?

Answer:

3. A color scheme; coordinating fonts; special effects such as shadows, glows, bevels, reflections, 3-D, and more.

Test question 3

When sizing and positioning pictures on a slide, it’s

important to do which of the following? (Pick one

answer.)

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1. Size the picture to 5.07” by 5/7”.

2. Maintain the aspect ratio, keeping the relative height

and width the same.

3. Size and move the picture by using the four-headed

arrow.

Test question 3

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

When sizing and positioning pictures on a slide, it’s

important to do which of the following?

Answer:

2. Maintain the aspect ratio, keeping the relative height and width the same.

Test question 4

When you want to format a video (add a border, recolor,

adjust brightness and contrast, specify how you want

your video to begin, and so on) that you have embedded

in a slide, what do you do? (Pick one answer.)

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1. Click the video on the slide, and then specify the Video

Tools options on the Format and Playback tabs.

2. Add a PowerPoint theme.

3. Apply special effects and then publish the presentation.

4. All of the above.

Test question 4

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

When you want to format a video (add a border, recolor,

adjust brightness and contrast, specify how you want

your video to begin, and so on) that you have embedded

in a slide, what do you do?

Answer:

1. Click the video on the slide, and then specify the Video Tools options on the Format and Playback tabs.

Test question 5

What is Presenter view? (Pick one answer.)

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1. You can view your notes on a laptop.

2. When the audience can see only your slides, and not

your presenter notes.

3. A view that requires multiple monitors, or a projector or

a laptop with dual-display capabilities.

4. All of the above.

Test question 5

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What is Presenter view?

Answer:

4. All of the above.

Test question 6

Before you print a presentation, how do you access Print

Preview? (Pick one answer.)

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

1. On the Home tab, click Print Preview.

2. On the File tab, click Print. Print Preview appears on the

right.

3. On the File tab, click Print. Print Preview appears under

Settings.

Test question 6

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Print Preview is now easier than ever to access.

Before you print a presentation, how do you access Print

Preview?

Answer:

2. On the File tab, click Print. Print Preview appears on the right.

Test question 7

To end a slide show from Slide Show view, do which of

the following? (Pick one answer.)

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1. Press ESC on the keyboard.

2. Right-click and select End Show.

3. Continue to press the right arrow key on the keyboard

until the end of the show.

4. All of the above.

Test question 7

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation

You can end a slide show by using any of the methods

listed.

To end a slide show from Slide Show view, do which of

the following?

Answer:

4. All of the above.

Quick Reference Card

For a summary of the tasks covered in this course, view the Quick Reference Card.

Create your first PowerPoint 2010 presentation